Progressive Labour: after Stitch & Bitch, it's Books & Looks
Anzi ma kienx hemm xi promotion fuq il-magni tal-hasil
The Labour Party celebrated Women’s Day (did you notice?) with an event organised by failed EP candidate Claudette Abela Baldacchino at Mile End HQ:
BOOKS & LOOKS.
Let’s turn to the party website, Maltastar, for the lowdown:
In relation to Women’s day, the Labour Party yesterday organised the first edition of Books & Looks. Hundreds attended the activity which included beauty stands, books, entertainment, discussions and what not.
Kienx hemm xi wiehed jaghmel il-Botox ukoll, u qabda hairdressers li invadewna minn Sqallija, jaghtu l-parir dwar l-‘updo’, u xi konsultent tal-purtieri ihambaqq dwar ix-‘xjiers’.
Really progressive. Tal-ghageb.
And don’t get your hopes up about the books, either, because I had a look at those and they’re the equivalent of those over-egged Maltese television soaps: Elio Lombardi, ‘Il-Villa Li Tleqq’ (The Shiny Villa).
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Mrs. Prime Minister’s words of wisdom at ‘Books & Looks’:
“Anke l-irgiel u anke ġenerazzjonijiet ta’ qabilna jaraw li l-mara għandha bzonn tkun mara rounded in character igifieri għandhek mara li tahseb, mara imma li tieħu ħsieb tagħha nnifisha wkoll.” – Michelle Muscat
What on earth is she trying to say? Rounded in character?
In her infinite wisdom she makes it a point to say that whilst it is important for a woman to ‘think’ (whatever that might mean), yet she must also ‘take care of herself’ – as is if one excludes the other.
And please note, she says that women must have ‘a rounded character’ because men expect it. So it ranks with the blow-dry and the Botox.
“L-irgiel u l-generazzjonijiet ta’ qabilna” wanted the women round-shaped not menatally but physically. The more rounded you were the better.
Children were treated the same way. Overweight children seemed so sweet to their mums and nanniet. “Kemm hu helu boccu, qisu tal-Cow and Gate”. Bellalu ha jikber.
She didn’t say “rounded in character” but “rounded”. Then she realised that the words she was was looking for were “all-rounder” and she said something to the effect of “rounded fil-karattru after realising what enormous gaffe she had said.
What next? After the emblem change, will the PL adopt “Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round” as its anthem?
As a professional and career-driven woman, I cry to see that the celebration of Woman’s Day for the PL is done by means of hairdos and beauticians. Am I the only one to find this insulting?
“Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round”
That’s the folksy version of Sir Mixalot’s Baby got back.
Anzi, Mrs. Muscat has a degree in English.
There’s a good book sale on at Progress Press bookshop on Republic Street. In any case I made some interesting purchases there last Friday, so I really recommend a visit.
Maybe they had Gaddafi’s Green Book
Or his White Book. The one Gaddafi threw at Ban Ki-moon in his hour and a half speech at the United Nations, in which, apparently, one of the translators just fainted.
“I just can’t take it any more.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6849070.ece
What next? Leaks and Freaks?
“Il-Villa li Tleqq” hija inspired by the true story of a Burmarrad boy who grew up to be prime minister?
The Golden Years of Labour by M.Gaddafi
“an event organised by failed EP candidate Claudette Abela Baldacchino at Mile End HQ” – it was organised at Monte Kristo.
[Daphne – Eh, iva bilhaqq, ghax ic-Caqnu n-NBF tal-Labour. Lanqas biss jisthu (it-tnejn).]
Is it true that among the ‘hundreds’ who attended the event was a group, headed no less by KMB, fervently praying for the survival of Gaddafi?
Were the promoters distribtuting the goods for free to the women? “Heqq, jghidu li m’hawnx flus fl-idejn.”
Lanqas kunsill mhuma kapaċi jmexxu – aħseb u ara pajjiż.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5zuhGWeve4
“il-villa li tleqq” ivvintajtha int jew veru ghandu ktieb li jismu hekk? Jien “Leroy l-eroj” Rajtu (please note the absolute and complete absence of Q – hence the capitalisation)
[Daphne – I got the name off a book cover in one of the photographs on Maltastar.]