High-heeled voter

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Date: 13 March 2005 18:26:40

OK, so I can't even walk in a pair, (possibly my worst investment of the last 4 years was when I bought a pair because I had no idea that walking in high heels in the real world is very different to a carpet in a shoe shop), but today I discovered I come (just about) into the category of "high-heeled voter".

The article in The Observer explained that this refers to female voters aged 18 - 34. Apparently we are likely to be interested in political issues but not in voting.

Personally I've always voted, but must admit am rapidly falling into the category of why bother? and if I bother who? (and do not quote feminist history at me, I know that but still say what's the point?) So I guess in someways I am the type of person who is likely to read the relevant article in Cosmo, which the Observer article was talking about, and atleast consider the answers the politicans give.

Still, must say I hope they actually officially start the campaign soon so we can get it over and done with.

Also a slightly smaller article in the same paper informed me that Christian teenagers are about to lose a cheap laugh we all grew up with. The TNIV has changed "got stoned" to something which can't get mixed up with being a drugs reference.

Still they will never move away from the first ice cream company "Walls of Jerico" or the first time a motorbike disturbed people "the roar of his Triumph was heard throughout the land". Yes they are lame, but part of childhood within a certain culture, (and if the rest of it has taken essentially the same format for the last 50 years why shouldn't the jokes).