Wrote Brigitte Bardot, quoted in "Everything (and Everyone) Brigitte Bardot Scorned" (NYT).
"I'm not made to be a mother," Bardot wrote in her memoir.... "I'm not adult enough — I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child."...
"I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid,” she wrote....
Bardot also wrote that she had two abortions before the pregnancy she carried to term, one of which was almost fatal.... she also revealed that she attempted suicide.... "I wanted to free myself — in every sense of the word...."
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Showbiz people in general are self absorbed idiots. Ignore their lectures about all topics and subjects if you want to remain sane.
There is no mystery in sex and conception. Our Posterity is the hardest burden you will ever love. That said, her "insane" ideas are shared by not a few persons. Quite a liberal loon, and only one duck to shake her life. She was right about maturity and parenthood.
Having a child considerably reduces the value of your tits in film. Too much baggage reduces the attraction.
One child she carried to term
Not much about the child or their relationship. So I am wondering if Bardot decided to gift him his privacy by making herself the monster, to spare him the notoriety that she so obviously despised. Not much of a mother otherwise, though, at least to these appearances. What isn't discussed is the relationship she had with him and his progeny once she left the limelight. Privacy.
The ironic thing is womens liberation will likely lead to the subjugation of much of europe and perhaps the united states
as we see in michigan as well as minnesota
Demography and indoctrination will out
Nobody's perfect.
Selfie-abortion. Ironic. Poetic.
Pre-gnant, before birth. gnascor.
Well just keep your legs together Bardot and no need for ya to get priggers.. but for the rest of humankind the cycle of life starts with a man and woman.. together.. to make a family.
Having lived in a French-speaking country for over 20 years ... a bit more context, for which I did not go to the paywalled link. Maybe they explain, maybe not, IDK.
"Pregnancy" in French is "grossesse" = "largeness", whence the G.
To *be* pregnant, however, is "embarrasée' which = "burdened", and *not* the false English cognate of "embarrassed". Spanish is the same BTW.
As a side note, "débarras" is basically "trash" or "rubbish", and "bon débarras" is common slang for "good riddance", whilst "court débarras" is a "junkyard". So, i9f you're trying to speak French or Spanish, remember BURDEN, not the emotion.
As a former cattleman, I tell people that a cow is a very stupid animal. But, do feel bad because it got one of God's greatest gifts to any animal - a ruminant stomach, which allow it alone to make food out of a plant that coats the earth. Bridget Bardot also got a great gift and was short changed on another.
Because without pregnancy the people do not advance and they are conquered
A provocative thought but a logical one
Brigitte Bardot's burden of beauty carried to term can be selfie-abortive.
Love and marriage mitigate the progress of burden while carrying a "burden" h/t Obama to term.
Drama Queen
The human Genome is carried to term through pregnancy.
Lovely lady. Love ladies. Love be the lady. #HateLovesAbortion
People magazine, printed in sans serif, tells me BB was sans maternal instinct.
The frog-talk isn't kind to women. Grossesse contains
grosse, a word we inherited from Duc Guillaume's kah-niggits meaning disgusting.
The Saxons they slaughtered and despoiled had much kinder and honorable terms for their women in that condition. The main one was mid-bearne, literally with child. The other was geacnod, i.e. increased, a word equally applicable to your mare or your crop of barley, welcome and honored in any case.
Yep, some women are simply too selfish and too childish to have kids. The "Flat belly" and "Great tits" are going to go away with time - whether you have children or not.
When women like Bardot turn 16 or so they gain the power to make almost any man in the world do anything she wants.
And what they end up doing is searching out the only men that are willing to tell them no. This sorts for the most disagreeable of men.
Then around 30 or so this super power they did nothing to earn disappears.
She was more self aware than most.
The punishment is imposed by GOD. You should ahve listened to him in the garden, sweetie. But no, you just had to have the bad boy.
I should also point out that "after she gives herself to the love of a man" completely removes the whore from women.
Women WANT to fuck. Fucking feels good. They are not giving anything. They are taking just as much as the man is taking.
To me these "revelations" make her all the more desirable, that she was ravishingly beautiful on the outside, with a dark interior to match.
She exposed both. And we hate her for that?
"People magazine, printed in sans serif, tells me BB was sans maternal instinct."
People is shit, Wince. Surely you know that? Bardot wasn't without a maternal instinct. (Picture the mind that believed "sans maternal instinct" was clever.) She sublimated her natural drives on cats and dogs, like many childless women.
"It is the beginning of the deterioration of a couple’s relationship."
This just isn't true and hasn't been for most of man's existence.
If you think this way, then you are already starting out unattractive as a personality. So the only thing you have to offer is your thin, flat belly. And that will soon be gone, sweetie, no matter what you do.
Go look at ANY photo of once hot women. Almost NONE of them age well. They all turn almost into men.
So sweetie, you'd better be bringing something ELSE to the table because you are going to age out of your fuckable self into something nobody wants to fuck purely out of lust. You gotta bring something else to the table.
Bridgette Bardot never matured, intellectually. She was still 14 her entire life.
Sentimental is some respects pragmatic in others
But a whole generation or two followed her example
Rest in peace, lovely lady, human faults and all, knowing you were, are not alone.
People is the propagator of mind arson
A man carries a beer belly to empathize with a woman's baby belly. That's not funny.
But, seriously, ladies, youth and fitness are mitigating factors, and a husband to carry your love to term.
"Bardot also wrote that she had two abortions ... one of which was almost fatal"
Both of them were fatal.
Men can be complex, eccentric, "in full".
Women in the other hand. Not so much.
She gave birth in 1960. Pictures of her post-pregnancy show that she was still very attractive.
The Wikipedia description of her relationship with her son is pretty damning. Apparently, they eventually reconciled before her death.
Actors and actresses are prone to being pretty messed up.
Did she imagine that she would always inspire mad desire if she just never got pregnant? I don't think it works that way.
I know plenty of women who are just as hot after having kids. Two women in my family who just had their first pregnancies, both in their 30's were completely back to normal in a couple months, and wearing bikinis, and neither one of them does any exercise.
Love and marriage go together like a baby and womb.
I'm sure she would agree that any mad desire for a man fades as well, pregnancy or not.
Notice that nobody ever mentions men becoming less desirable, let alone feeling any sympathy for them.
Don't be an egg stooge.
"Bardot also wrote that she had two abortions ... one of which was almost fatal"
Both of them were fatal.
One of which almost produced collateral damage.
it transforms the lover into a disfigured progenitor who no longer inspires mad desire. It is the beginning of the deterioration of a couple’s relationship.
This happens between 30 and 40 years old whether you have kids or not.
The kids give the man a reason to stay around and keep providing.
The grand kids give you purpose and a reason to stay together after that.
Somewhere in the 60's modern women lost the plot.
The whole MILF concept is built around the idea that the signs of previous successful pregnancy make you hot.
I would say something about the classic Midnight 3L Althouse photo, but I am a gentleman. CC, JSM
Achilles: "The grand kids give you purpose and a reason to stay together after that."
The grandikids, and the ability to take out the dentures. CC, JSM
It's too bad she didn't enjoy pregnancy. I was lucky - all of mine brought me feelings of expansive (in every sense) well-being.
FLC appears to be committing the common, Sexual Revolution error of assuming that men and women think about and experience sex in the same way.
If a man loves a woman so much that he marries her, as she ages he still lusts after her. It is a combination of that love. And a memory of what she once was.
Alfwold: Hāl, Beorn.
Beorn: Grētingas, mīn frēond.
Alfwold: Hū is þīn bere?
Beorn: Greacnod.
Alfwold: Hu ys þīn brōdmaere?
Beorn: Greacnod.
Alfwold: And þīn wīf?
Beorn: Greacnod.
Alfwold: God sy herigend!
Beorn: Amen!
All I know is, if you don't want kids, by Grabthar's Hammer, don't have them.
Several porn stars have asked for their work to be removed from the internet and that people/men stop sharing it out of respect that they have now become mothers.
G is for increased. The condition of good things becoming better.
Hot/Crazy Matrix?
"Several porn stars have asked for their work to be removed..."
Not an unreasonable request. Reform--when sincere--is always to be respected. On the other hand, one cannot easily dismiss the dubious genetics involved.
Rocco makes the right point.
G is for gynecology. O is for obstetrician who may be the same. Now I know my Gs and Os, won't you conceive with me. B is for belle, baby.
Several porn stars have asked for their work to be removed from the internet and that people/men stop sharing it out of respect that they have now become mothers.
Life is not so short to be trivial.
In my experience, Richard Pryor was more right than wrong: when women get old, they get UGLY. BB really porked out.
Also in my experience, women who don't want children and feel inadequate to be mothers are right not to have them.
The feminine singular adjective "trudna" means "pregnant" in Neo-Shtokavian (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin) and Macedonian. Its primary meaning is "difficult" in most other Slavic languages, and "tired" in Slovenian.
Also in my experience, women who don't want children and feel inadequate to be mothers are right not to have them.
@Narr, +1
Condom knucklehead.
BB had Borderline Personality Disorder. It makes them sad, and those around them sadder. It's a tough go, even when you are rich and famous.
Our minds create the illusion that we are disembodied intellects experiencing objective reality. We filter out the things that would force us to confront the many aspects of human existence that are determined by our status as Darwinian beasts produced by ancestral beasts and producing in turn descendant generations of Darwinian beasts.
Brigitte bought into the myth that she truly was this ethereal desirable presence, and not just in some partial but inescapable way another cow out in the field. We are all in some partial way cows and bulls out in the field.
"The feminine singular adjective "trudna" means "pregnant" in Neo-Shtokavian..."
Travail - arduous labor, suffering, or exertion, a word ultimately traceable to the Latin tripālium, an instrument of torture.
Any connection?
@Quaestor -- the Slavic usage seems to go back to Proto-Indo-European "trewd-" meaning "opression/toil". This morphed to "threat" in English.
G is for 9.8 m/s2. At least on Earth.
Bardot was an animal advocate later after her fertile years. Many women who shun child bearing go this way later. Arrested maternal instincts.
J L Oliver nails it, though her obsession with dogs and cats goes back to her sex symbol days.
"Bardot also wrote that she had two abortions..."
This ought to count for something, among those who are disturbed by her desire for France to remain French.
Nature gave her all that sex appeal so she could find a mate and have children. Civilization gave her all that sex appeal so she could drop a towel in front of camera and make millions. You can't have five kids and look like BB. She made a defensible decision........She had the kind of beauty that deserves immortality, but that's not the way it works out.
"Karoline Leavitt replacement talks spark buzz at the White House after pregnancy announcement"
Since BB days, women have not come a long way.
Disparity of Cult,
"Tabaan" was a common given name in South Sudan when we were there (It means "tired", at least in the local Arabic dialect.)
@Kirk Parker -- that's interesting, maybe when used as given name there could be morphed meanings along the lines of "Hard-working" or "Accomplished".
Disparity,
Possibly; however there was a much stronger tradition of giving names based on the circumstances of birth, rather than aspirational hopes for the child. E.g. I knew of a boy named "Rubbish Heap" (In one of the local languages, not in juba Arabic) because that was the first thing his mother noticed after giving birth.
Mme Bardot had arrived, by the end of her long and sometimes chaotic life, at an appreciation of the Traditional Mass of her childhood and died (one hopes) fortified by the Sacraments.
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