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We have come to visit my grandma. After eating more than our combined body weight in cake we’re in the garden. ‘Where’s that tree we planted together when I was little?’ I ask in a whiny voice, as my sister has a surreptitious cigarette behind the shed. ‘What, your tree?’ says […]
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First off, I’d like to address the snark that this piece will probably receive, because I’ll bet my sphincter it’ll happen. Someone will comment, thinking themself hilarious, that now Cheryl Cole is literally talking out of her arse. Well she’s not. This is Cheryl Cole’s arse talking. It’s a completely different thing. And if […]
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(via imgur) I’m in my mid-twenties and I’ve never properly used a tampon. Well, I did once, on holiday when I was fifteen and I thought I might be pregnant. My mum was getting tired of me going on about it (imagine the phrase ‘muuuuum, what if I aaaaam?’ whined repetitively at you while […]
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…sometimes my inner feminist feels guilty, though Dressing in vintage, as the late, great Bette Davis might have said, ain’t for sissies. In the 10 years since I first wandered into a second-hand shop and thought ‘Goodness, a skirt with sombreros and cacti printed on it! Now there’s something you don’t see […]
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One of the central tenets of existence, IMHO, is the fact that, as a human shaped person, you are always, always learning. Whether it’s being told by a close friend that that joke about rollerblading being ‘a bit gay’ really isn’t OK, or simply discovering that walking your genitals directly into that pointy […]
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I’ve got a playlist on my iTunes called ‘feminist’ and it inspired me to write a post about the best feminist songs out there. Some are catchy pop tunes, a few are impassioned rants, and there are a few heartbreaking ones too. All of them will inspire you and make you want to […]
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vs Just in case you haven’t had your fill of being creeped out this month (Simon Cowell did put a baby in a lady after all), I would like to suggest that we all take a moment to think about the Daily Mail. I KNOW. Nobody wants to do that. Personally, the furthest […]
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Unless you’ve spent the last few months hiding under a rock, living underwater or – even worse – listening exclusively to Mumford & Sons, chances are you’ve heard Robin Thicke’s so-catchy-they-should-invent-a-vaccination über-hit ‘Blurred Lines’. You may or may not have seen the accompanying, pathetic NSFW video, but you’ve surely read about it. Ever since […]
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Marks & Spencer, that place where you buy pants and pudding, has declared itself ‘not feminist’. You may or may not seen the new campaign by Annie Leibovitz featuring such ‘outspoken women’ (their quote, not ours) as Tracey Emin and Ellie Goulding. The campaign is called ‘Leading Ladies’ and also features acid […]
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If you follow tech blogs, you might have seen this late-90s Kids Guide To The Internet linked already. If not, let me introduce you to its awesome awfulness. In this educational film, the Jamisons: Mom, Dad and their kids Dasha and Peter – the smuggest suburban family since the early Disneyland Paris promo that came […]
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So, Natalie, one of our writers tweeted this photo this morning. Apparently some of her male colleagues were handed it outside Embankment tube section. Obviously this dating agency is a whole clusterfuck of wrong that I’m not even sure where to start, but it was the assumption that you can simultaneously be ‘intelligent and educated’ and […]
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Now they’re policing our insides as well as our outsides. Women of Britain! Ever wanted to combine getting your freak on with maintaining a healthy digestive tract? Yes? Then you need…WOMAN YOGHURTS! (Also correctly spelt yogurt, or yoghourt if you’re feeling especially arsey). In the last few years there’s been an […]
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