And this is a breakfast I ate at home yesterday. The reason I’m publishing the photo is not that I’m obsessed with breakfasts (although I somewhat am) but because I wanted to share the story of the cup.
Six years ago, a friend of my mother’s gave me this cup as a gift. The cup is supposed to be magical. According to a superstition this woman holds near and dear, if this cup is given to a single woman, she stops being single.
I was very appalled by the suggestion that all single women must necessarily be miserable that I was on the verge of smashing the cup to bits. But it’s very pretty and I couldn’t bring myself to destroy it.
What’s really curious about all this is that the woman who was so worried about my singlehood that she had to give me the cup was in the most miserable marriage you can imagine. I’m not going to traumatize you with the details, but, believe me, it was really tragic.
It is always people with miserable marriages who worry about their single friends and people who have horrible relationships with their children who pester their childless friends about their childlessness. Misery does love company, which is why such people can’t rest until they see everybody as miserable as they are.
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Did it make you afraid to get married? It does seem to have worked well in your case.
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My divorce made me afraid of marriage. 🙂 But you are right, the cup seems to have worked. Weird. . .
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Not so weird Clarissa! The cup is magic and magic sometimes, not always, does work.
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Hmm, I kind of expected this to be about the nigh-mythical diva cup… 😀
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I just googled diva cup and it made me give up on the idea of having lunch today. 🙂
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Wait… You did not know about this thing? 😀
How is it possible to frequent feminist online places and not now about the diva cup? 😀
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Never heard about it in my life. And can’t say that I really missed the knowledge.
It is, of course, possible that I read about it and completely repressed the knowledge. I now wonder – since you seem to be familiar with the subject – are feminists for or against this thing?
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// I now wonder – since you seem to be familiar with the subject – are feminists for or against this thing?
I heard about it too. Feminists aren’t neither for nor against, it’s a matter of personal taste and what one’s body feels. Some women like that it’s reusable, less money in the long run (and ecologically greener, I guess). May be, for some with heavy periods it’s better than tampons. Btw, tampons may lead to toxic shock syndrome, and I don’t see a huge ick difference between them and this cup. Personally, I think pads are the best.
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Tampons are not reusable, however.
OK, now the lunch I did buy will have to go to the waste basket.
Are you, people, conspiring to make me lose weight after the photos I posted last week? 🙂
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