Keeley Hawes

Anyone who tried that with us would have a triple hernia....

i have no fucking idea what you're talking about, but i haven't let a man "scoop me up" since i was ten.

Star of the Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes. I'd have no objection to being scooped up by Philip Glenister, but can you imagine the bloke I posted earlier today (Noel Fielding as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh) trying to pick me up? I'd crush him like he was made of pipecleaners.

but those thin, androgynous, aesthetic goth boiz are so pretty!

In that case, we get to scoop him up! Though I'll have to be careful, my bedroom is up some fairly steep stairs.

I'd let Gene Hunt scoop me up any day of the week!

Would you allow him to take down your particulars?

I'm not a hundred percent sure what that means (not native speaker), but I think I get the gist of it, and there's not much I wouldn't let Gene do. Besides, I'm far too fond of being carried, so just the thought of him doing that sends shivers down my spine.

Oh, in English it's a double entendre, a rude joke. Philip Glenister used it in an interview. "Take down her particulars" means to write down her details such as name and address, but "particulars" sounds like a euphemism for "knickers". lulz

It's true, though, Kate. ;)

Ruination to all men!

They have the cocks, Kate. Where would we be without them and their cocks?

You find me a man who can scoop me up with his cock.

*practices*

Oh dear.

Oh fucking dear.

I'm not sure which is funnier -- the original comment, or the responses! :D *Makes popcorn, sits back to watch.*

See, this is interesting. I consider myself a feminist. I'm sure my friends would agree.

However, there's part of me that WOULD like someone to scoop me up and carry me away. And in my mind, it's always a man. (I like girls too, but I want to be the one scooping them up and carrying them away.)

Who doesn't have the overly-romanticized idea of a lover coming and carrying you off into a perfect little life, saving the day for you? I mean, hell, all of these shows we fangirl over, don't they often times have someone who can save the day? (Hell, The Doctor saves the universe.)

Maybe it comes from living a life where I struggle with depression and ADHD (which makes me also struggle with apathy, ennui, procrastination, and underachievement). Maybe it comes from a place of feeling unable to save myself and wanting someone else to magically make it better.

But I don't think any of this makes me less of a feminist. I know we're equal. I know I don't *need* a man, but would *like* one. To me, feminism is about women being equal and being able to do the things we've always wanted to do, and to get what we've always wanted to get. (Which is part of the reason I think sex positivity is highly feminist. Getting what you want in bed is, to me, one of the most radical acts you can do as a woman.) And what if what you want is a little magic and a little being swept off your feet? Obviously, the Doctor sweeping you off your feet and away into the TARDIS to a life of interstellar and intra-time travel, where you live happily ever after... it's not going to happen in reality. But perhaps our fantasies of being carried off play out in finding a friend who helps us through a hard time, or merely falling in love.

All that being said, if someone came up to me and said what was said above, I think I'd punch him in the face. :-)

(oh, and your feh muh nist tag... you like Hothead Paisan, don't you? :-D)

Who doesn't have the overly-romanticized idea of a lover coming and carrying you off into a perfect little life, saving the day for you?

Me. :-)

But seriously, the desire to be carried by a strong person (metaphorically or otherwise) doesn't undermine equality or feminism - surely that's something men want too, sometimes. Hawes seems to be saying that women pretend to want equality but really deep down we want men to treat us like children.

*hefts Noel Fielding into a fireman's lift and makes off*

"Hawes seems to be saying that women pretend to want equality but really deep down we want men to treat us like children."

Well, this Hawes fellow needs at very least a rather stern talking to and at very most, the crap beat out of him by a number of "uppity" (read: pissed off) feminists. :-)

Ladies and gentlemen, Keeley Hawes.

Uh... that's a girl. That's a rather attractive girl.

where you live happily ever after

Does this *ever* really happen in the Whoverse? Even The Doctor gets that.