Sometimes its hard to be a woman…

They need to re-write that song. Changing the next line from “giving all your love to just one mayun”, to, possibly, “especially when she has a penis”. Or even “so I’m changing to be a mayun too”. They rhyme doesn’t matter; its country & western. Nothing matters. But they need to contemporise these terribly 1970s concepts of gender stability, monogamy and its evil twin ‘affairs!!’, and all the terrible horrors of men leaving home, dogs dying in car crashes and men fighting to show they’re meyun. Whilst love-torn, heart-broken women stay at home crying into their peroxide bottles.

There’s a D.I.V.O.R.C.E. being fought out in the high court currently between, unusually, a man and a woman. Ridiculous claims made on both sides, obviously, it’s a divorce, and pissing away the usual few hundred grand enriching lawyers. And let’s face it: no-one likes lawyers. Today’s photo is me, this morning, with my two fine examples of the ugly faces of modern day law.

Anyway, the slight difference in the case in question is that the guy described, quite horribly I feel, as a ‘City Trader’, is the one suing his ‘ex’ for maintenance. She’s a squillionaire of some sort, and they were married for 3 years.

To refer to someone as a City Trader is to use a term loaded with prejudice and stereotype. A wide boy, so barely literate he can hardly spell ‘Rolex’, of which he wears two. One on each wrist. He drinks champagne for breakfast, drives a Ferrari and blows 20k on dinner just because. This is the horrible image implied. Though in this case it would appear to be fairly accurate, especially as it was her 20k he was pissing away on the top end of pretentious wine list.

So after 3 years of luxury and high living, he’s gone. But is demanding sufficient maintenance to eat his breakfast at the Ritz every day, lunch at Hawksmoor and dinner at Nobu. He wants £36,000 a year for flights. Which is reasonable. Because if you fly out of Heathrow these days you may need to use ‘contingency plans’ to get home. And because he’s basically been spoiled rotten for 3 years, he feels entitled to be spoiled rotten for the rest of his life. Prenup notwithstanding. Because he ‘can’t even cook an omelette’. The judge told him to learn, which I think is judgmental (errrr… yeah, I suppose quite applicable really), prejudicial and insulting.

I think he should be given everything he asks for, and more, even though he is, apparently, a serial marrier and a bit of a tosspot. Otherwise what message does this send out to users, abusers and free-loaders in general???

Happy Saturday

A xxxx