a Strong Woman - # 100/2011
...........a "feminist" term that seems to be increasingly popular these days. I've nothing whatsoever against "strong women", but I sometimes find the term a bit annoying.
Anyway, here's a good metaphor for a really "strong woman". It's a massive and immensely strong, traditionally built wooden "clinker hull" fishing boat; on the beach at Hastings, alongside the old bulldover used to push it down to the water and haul it out again when it comes home.
Hastings is the home of a very large beach-launched traditional-style fishing fleet that works the English Channel and catches fish in a sustainable and ecologically sound way. That's also a popular term these days, but it certainly does not annoy me!
There is I think a lot to be said for "old school" fishing. I had to look up the registration CF, obvious really Cardiff.
ReplyDeleteThis boat really has character... well captured too!
ReplyDeleteDunno about strong woman - strong picture, though, very stroong
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