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“So, Wallace, we should talk about the complex issues of our time. Can men and women be friends or do you secretly want to bang Chantry?” (What If, 2014) When Billy Crystal Met Meg Ryan, Hollywood taught us that it is not “the sex thing” that “gets in the way” of men and women being Just Friends… but […]
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I was watching an episode of Hell’s Kitchen a few weeks ago (yes I know, it’s a guilty pleasure), and a contestant from the blue (men’s) team said, “I’m not going to let this little girl intimidate me.” Two things happened when I heard that. Firstly, I had a visceral gut reaction of ugh. Secondly, it made […]
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You expect a certain number of terrible things to happen when you watch a show with a title like “American Horror Story: Freakshow”. The murderous clown is certainly fair game. The calculating show mistress makes sense. Both provide commentary on what it means to be “a freak.” I have to be honest though, I didn’t […]
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Images via and via At a dinner party on Sunday night, the conversation turned towards street harassment in Paris, or harassment de rue. A friend, Mary, recounted the previous evening’s events. She’d had a great night but it had been spoilt by an incident on her way home. A man had followed her from the […]
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In the wake of her parents’ divorce, Kylie Jenner posted up a quote on Instagram by the poet R M Drake who, from what I can see, seems to specialise in quaint, whimsical nonsense. A vague, mystical figure, R M Drake supplies anodyne lines to the second cycle of Kardashians and celebrities against whom various […]
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Mel C hit the newspapers lately by slating today’s generation of female pop stars as ‘vulgar and narcissistic’. Predictable media headlines ensued, replete with gratuitous arse shots of a pouting Rihanna twerking like some kind of demented booty-witch. Commentators were quick to point out that Mel C was known to favour and indeed rock a […]
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Feminists! Stop burning your bras for a second and listen up: feminism has made you bad in bed. Fortunately for us all, Men’s Health have brought this key piece of information to our attention as part of their groundbreaking list of ’15 Ways To Turn A Good Girl Bad’. Australian Men’s Health and Yahoo have […]
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It’s four in the morning on a Thursday and I’m pretty sure I’m dying. But I can’t be dying, the baby can’t be dying, I’m just pregnant and this is just a part of pregnancy. I need to toughen up and get on with it. Cut to two hours later, I’m dragging myself downstairs, exhausted, faint and […]
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I can’t stop thinking about arses. I feel like I’m being bombarded with them, like I’m in some kind of bouncy bottom hail storm. I see Nicki Minaj’s thong when I close my eyes at night, and I could identify Iggy Azalea’s ‘area’ from a mile away, as if it were a voluptuous lighthouse. Part of this stems […]
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There are some things that I will defend to the death: my family, my friends, my cat, my right to voice an opinion, my right to drink tea and watch EastEnders – you know, the universal stuff. Then there’s feminism. And Beyoncé. In an article published this week Annie Lennox took it upon herself to […]
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In light of recent research by Ticketmaster showing that ticket sales for female comics have trebled since 2011, I have an *Important Announcement* to make, something that, if you’ve ever read the comments section beneath a newspaper article, you’ll already be well aware of: MEN AREN’T FUNNY. In fact, I’ll go further than that; I’m going […]
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Three weeks ago I came to the realisation that I have been emotionally abused by my husband. It wasn’t such a smack-in-the-face realisation – I guess I have known something pretty fucked-up was going on all along, if I’m completely honest. At my lowest point, a few weeks ago, having been told to “go fuck […]
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