Lady Lydia does a Marie Antoniette

I maybe vilifying the French queen in comparing her to Lady Lydia! But both of them share similarities in that they couldn't be caught dead committing a fashion faux pax.

But Lady Lydia is unique in that she believes people should be fashionably dressed in skirts even during a hurricane. Lady Lydia's equally sexist husband joins her as they make nasty remarks about old women's backsides and how it reminds them of diapers.

Since she dared not re-post her ugly comments on "the nursing-home" look after the backlash for her original post - she has now invented readers to defend her.......the latest post in defence of the Katrina-victims-comment reads:

(It is titled More Readers Respond)

"I believe you have struck a nerve with your recent blog postings =regarding feminine dress, especially for "older" ladies (such as =myself!) =20. I laughed to see you describing the "nursing home look" that has become =de rigeur for so many elderly women."

Lady Lydia next says: "My husband was commenting on the looks of the elderly women in a farmer's market we visited today. They seemed to have no idea what their rear ends looked like with their pull-up pants and big shorts that looked like giant diapers."

"Their short hair that was stickery and in clumps only made their wrinkled faces look harsher."

Then someone called Carla or Lydia herself says:

“You hit the nail on the head, Lydia. I have been wondering how to describe this ugly, ugly “style” and this is it. Combine this diaper-look with the nearly shaved hair of many older women and your word “creepy” is perfect. I cannot fathom why anyone would want to present themselves this way, even in the privacy of their own home, let alone in public. I’m sure you have been watching scenes from Katrina victims. I kept hoping I would see some lady fleeing the hurricane in clothes which looked presentable. Instead, the images I was presented were almost uniformly an ugly tee-shirt combined with these big shorts. Can you imagine having only those clothes on your back and nothing else? When will the women of our country wake up? No wonder marriages are falling apart."

Lady Lydia, the sanctimonious, says:

"What does the phrase “die with dignity” mean to us? We have let the modernists liberal define this for us, making it completely contrary to real dignity. I’ve heard people say “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that outfit.” As a people, we used to be concerned with the impression and the influence we left others at our passing. I’m not suggesting we get all dressed up for a hurricane, but if those clothes which provide dignity and coverings are the only thing in our closets and the only thing available to us, we won’t be caught in a storm with the big shorts, saggy tee shirts and flip-flops. Tragedies always bring scenes of ripped and dirty clothing, but I think it is very telling about our morals and values when we allow our women to trapse about in nothing but garments that would have been underwear a hundred years ago. What a sight we are presenting to the overseas telly-viewers. I’m so embarrassed that these scenes are perceived by Europeans who look up to our country and admire us, as representative of us! ”

The picture Americans present to Europeans is the last of people's concerns, once they read her uncharitable and extremely mean views.

The original post, called "All Dressed up" after several modifications, now reads:

There are lots of elderly women who are able bodied and active, that spend tremendous amounts of money and time getting their hair clipped and coiffed, and their nails "done," who pay no attention to the rest of their appearance. They walk around in the "nursing home look" (jeans, tee shirt, reboks) revealing their unshapely bottems, and yet I wouldn't ever say to them (although I would DREAM of it) "Don't you EVER wear a dress?"

In the responses to "All Dressed up" Lady Lydia gives us interesting insights.

She says:

"I've worn jeans all my life. Hardly a photograph from my childhood or my past shows me anything else. I'm tired of jeans and need a change.

If you've seen one pair of jeans you've seen them all.

My husband doesn't like other men looking at my anatomy that is so clearly outlined in jeans."

We can infer two things:

1. Lady Lydia suffers from GID - Gender Identity Disorder, according to the people she has linked to on the side-bar, as she used to wear jeans
2. Lady Lydia stopped wearing jeans not because of what the Bible had to say or feminity, but because her husband didn't like other men checking her out
3. Lady Lydia used to wear only underwear (jeans) or pantaloons before she got herself educated. In the very same article she says, "You might do a study of the history of jeans and pants on women. Pants come from the word "pantaloon" which was originally underwear. How did the garment known as underwear 100 years ago, become outerwear on women today? After you do some studying on the matter, you might not think jeans are so pretty."
   

Gossiping silly women & Ilk

Afternoon Tea by Paul Fischer

I always detest those feminists over at Punkassblog. I wish that they didn't always pick on me. I just wrote a small, teeny-weeny post saying that they were "silly women" and now look at the backlash! Humph! People have no self-constraint - they immediately hit out at me. So I next deleted the post on "Silly Women" so that their comments become invalid! Ha Ha! Now I have got the upper-hand!

Those horrid women said:

I’ve always yearned to be “ilk!”

Of course, I may be flattering myself. When the Lady Lydia referred to persons of “Kyso’s ilk,” she may not have been referring to me because she didn’t specify what Kysoean attributes a person must have to be considered one of “Kyso’s ilk.”

(I’m sorry for the incessant quotation marks, but since the Lyds used ‘em, I feel I must faithfully reproduce them. It would be wrong to assume that she simply isn’t aware of the proper usage of quotation marks. Wrong, I tell you.)

Who is this “Lady Lydia” broad, you may ask? (Well, you might already know. That was what I was wondering when I was nipping merrily through the site today and noticed somebody was leaving comments on a post that was two years old. I mean, it takes some dedication to read through two years of blog archives!)

Well, as it turns out, the simpler explanation is usually the correct one…nope, the Lyds didn’t actually just happen across the awesomeness that is PunkAssBlog and was so enchanted by the content therein that she spent the past week reading post after post in reverse chronological order til she accidentally encountered one that was actually about her. No, she was LOOKING for it! (Excuse me, them. There are two of them.) But still, two years later..? I smelled a Mystery! Happily, she very thoughtfully embedded her url in her username, so my investigation got off to a swimming start.

As it turns out, the Lyds is deeply into women doing nothing but homemaking. She tacitly admits that homemaking with all the modern conveniences out there is a grotesque bore, so she is also deeply into all the crap women used to have to do by hand, from scratch, in order to homemake. I can sorta understand this as a consuming hobby. It doesn’t move me personally, but then, neither does skydiving and I know at least two people who are totally into that. Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks. The only really bizarre aspect of her hobbyist obsession is that she appears to believe that all women should also devote themselves to her particular hobby, full-time, at the expense of a paying job. (And as a corollary, I guess she thinks men should be really excited to get to work full-time to completely financially support not only any woman who wants to entirely devote herself to this hobby, but all the hobby materials as well, plus a house with land suitable for planting to go with it.)

I’ve known lots of people with hobbies, some of ‘em dead crazy about ‘em. But I haven’t ever met anyone who thought that they should get to quit their job and somebody else should support them so they could pursue it full-time–and then wanted the entire world to follow suit. That’s just…wow. Words escape me.

I flicked through the sidebar as the Lyds recommended (some gorgeous examples of who she admires sufficiently to link to will be provided at the end of this post) and then scanned down her main page. And woot! I FOUND it! the answer to the Mystery of What She Was Doing Commenting On a Two-Year-Old Post by Kyso: an article entitled Silly Women, which she opens by saying that someone alerted her to a blog where she’s the main topic.

(Two two-year-old posts about her means she’s our blog’s main topic?)

Anyway, she spends the entire article attempting to simultaneously appear to turn the other cheek in a humble and ladylike fashion as laid out in the Bible when someone in particular has infuriated her, while squeezing out insults aimed at pointedly nameless silly women so that she doesn’t actually have to eat her own bile in silence in a humble and ladylike fashion as laid out in the Bible. This is otherwise known as passive aggression, and is a tactic not infrequently resorted to by women who find (or put) themselves in the Lyd’s domestic situation. Sad but true.

Now that we’ve pretty much explored her one dimension, let’s briefly turn to some quotes from the collection of links on her page that she labels ESPECIALLY FOR FEMINISTS for some fun quotes that support her oft-stated and obviously very important-to-her goal of KEEPING BLOGS LOVELY!

Might I remind you ladies, that it was the WASP’s and other races of Christian men, that treated you better than any civilization has treated you on the planet. First, they allowed you to sit at the table and eat with the men.

Perhaps you ask, “Don’t I have any rights as a wife? Am I just to be a plain old slave all my days?” Listen carefully now….You don’t have any rights, no rights at all.

“Slovenly” “Drab” Unkempt” “Slatternly” “Blowzy” –many adjectives come to mind to describe most women who wear jeans.

Oh, the tranquil beauty of these sites soothes my troubled soul!

And then the comments to these posts. Oh! My God! Even Christian women made such nasty comments. Sorry, I should have said so-called Christian women.

They said:

Cat

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Maybe she should add that creepy “Christian home discipline” site to her links page; she seems to have enough gender- and self-loathing to appreciate the glorious worship of wife-beating with a dash of S&M.

It’s all to the glory of Jeebus. Really. The ball gag? The whips? The spanking? Totally holy.

Kyso Kisaen

I’m an ilk! That only took like three years of blogging. I’m so proud on this day!

Antigone

Yes, but not only are we “silly” we are also “gossips”. She would NEVER gossip about us, or openly admit to such an unladylike emotion like ANGER.

This lady is self-mocking.

that one guy from the one place

I would so not be okay with supporting somebody else in that sort of hobby. College? Good hobby - will support. Stamp collecting - if you’re using that much money we’ve got to talk. Flying - I’ll bend over backwards to help you.

Seriously, allowances are for children under 16 unable to legally have a job.

Kyso Kisaen

Lady Lydia considers it more of a lifestyle than a calling. She’s a little insane, and pretty sensitive - for example, she’ll close comments if non-Victorian fetishists show up. And while I’ve never before picked on her in public for it, probably 5% of her posts are about “banishing the blues” which sounds to me like she occasionally suffers from the problem with no name, if you know what I mean.

Anne

The article “Silly Women” was actually written in response to the “Dear Lady Lydia” post I wrote on the http://www.whitewashedfeminist.com blog. Guess she didn’t like it. Who’da thunk?

Lisa KS

Heee!

Andrew

In her defence, she’s using “ilk” in scare-quotes because someone here talked about her ilk first.

The Cynic Sage

“Blowzy”?

I don’t know what that means, but it sounds hot.

Screaming Lemur

I* was strolling through the archives cause I like this blog and I followed that second link. I paled when I read that website. Ewwwwww! I have a headache now… what a shame I don’t have a master/husband to submit to/beg off sex with. I just had to post on this even though it’s a couple months old to freak out. Holy Ceiling Cat, that “feminists are evil” guy…. *shudder* There’s a reason I’m not Christian. That guy is Exhibit A.
No, I had nothing sparklingly witty to say…