It Was 1970. I’m Still a F — king Beauty Queen.
Sep 4, 2018 · 8 min read
Jessica Rabbit has my favorite line: “You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.” Poor Jessica, she was just “drawn that way.” Stuck in a timeless superficial lament.
It’s humorous, at sixty-odd years of age, to recall lamenting to my mom how I hated the way I looked in a bathing suit. We had just left the most effete dress shop in a small downtown in Alabama. Mom having spent the last of her paycheck to buy it, haughtily disagreed. Damn, I was seventeen! Damn, I must have looked how a warm blanket looks to a freezing…

