by thevagenda
So you know you’re a feminist, but WHAT KIND? How can you live without further labelling and explanation? Some people will tell you that there are as many kinds of feminist as there are different kinds of people. But those people are talking pony. There are three kinds. Find your kind now! How angry are […]
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This blog is for people who are watching Season 2 of Girls, which obvs means MEGA SPOILERS abound. Rather than listening to a cacophony of dickheads on Twitter tell me I’m not entitled to hold opinions that differ from theirs, I thought I’d catch up on this week’s Girls. Not having realised that my dislike of […]
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I took Cosmo for a spin before I’d kissed a boy or earned a pound of my own money, and it was probably too heavy for my skinny arms to support, let alone for my brain – drowsy with hormones – to bullshit-detect. When I grew up, I wanted to be just like […]
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This week, the England women’s football team successfully negotiated a £4k pay increase – a figure that Wayne Rooney coincidentally charged his present employer in the same month for farting on the pitch (OK, that didn’t actually happen, but it probably would have if he had a mind to actually work up the […]
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A few months ago I got involved in what could either be described as a fantastic achievement or a terrible mistake: I brought a discussion about rape to the dinner table – to the actual, physical dinner table. My parents’ dinner table, to be precise. And when I say ‘discussion’, I mean a […]
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by thevagenda
This blog is for people who are watching Season 2 of Girls, which obvs means MEGA SPOILERS abound. A little late this week I’m afraid, folks, as I only just caught up with episode 2. I’m back, thanks to those of you who messaged and tweeted saying that we should continue blogging […]
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Poor Mary Beard. She went on Question Time and expressed the view that Eastern European migration had benefited some areas such as Boston in Lincolnshire, and that some of the stories about “floods” of people were ‘myths’. In response, she was subjected to the most vicious, obscene, and highly threatening abuse. Whether or not she […]
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I am a girl. And I have short hair. Short, permed hair to be precise. What are your initial thoughts? Am I a staunch feminist, hacking off my tresses in protest against the patriarchy? A man-hater? Gay? Am I so lazy that I can’t handle the responsibility of keeping long hair washed and kempt? Or […]
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A handy device used more and more nowadays to determine how society is getting on is to imagine what an extra-terrestrial space traveller skipping around the universe before landing on earth, presented with a few choice contemporary exhibits, might understand about the way we live. Consider, then, taking this little green man by the hand […]
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Ask a girl why she doesn’t want to travel alone and the answer’s always the same: because she’s a girl. No one ever asks for specifics; it’s all too often assumed that gender is enough of a boundary. The undertone, of course, is ‘safety’ – it’s just not safe for a gal to pull on […]
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