I do my deepest thinking while I am out and about travelling on London's wonderfully clean, punctual and comfortable transport system - Joke! And today I had the pleasure of standing in the cold waiting for a bus.
Our driver was a tall, broad woman who huffed down the street towatds the bus in a masculine way. She wore no make-up, had a physique to match Tyson, her long, blonde hair looked greasy and she was in dire need of bra that uplifted her cleavage! To top it all off, she spoke in low, gruff tones. And I started thinking ... Why do all women bus drivers look and sound like that? I mean how many times have you EVER seen a beautiful, high-pitch voiced female bus driver batting her eyelids at the travelling public boarding her bus? And why not? To rival the males around? To be seen to be as masculine as the males in order to be taken more seriously? I don't believe that all female bus drivers are butch lesbians and I know that the uppper classes won't be attracted to driving buses but that still doesn't mean female bus drivers have to adhere to a stereotype of being cockney, butch toughs! So come on ladies, wash your hair, slap on even a smidgen of lipstick or mascara and invest in the support of a good bra! If any female bus drivers out there have the answers ... please post comments!