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When I first got engaged, one of the top things on my to-do list was go to wedding fayres. In fact, I was a bit miffed because it was the end of May, which any budding ‘Bridezilla’ worth her icing knows is already very late in the wedding season. Most of the high profile fayres […]
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GIF via The Daily Dot CLASH, go the symbols: Behold! The Magic Bra! BOOM, go the drums: The Magic Bra only opens when confronted with true love! LOUD, go the other drums: for no one but a handsome prince will gaze upon your Holy tits! Yes, Vagenda readers: as numerous newspaper reports have recently […]
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Picture: Fappy, sorry, Dappy, of N-Dubz ‘fame’ I didn’t intend it to happen, but I got hooked on Celebrity Big Brother. Maybe it’s because I live in a house where everyone else was watching it. Maybe it’s because I’ll watch any show that is in anyway associated with a cast member of Made in Chelsea. […]
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‘WEREWOLF DIET A-LIST ARE HOWLING ABOUT’. Does this sentence make any sense to you beyond random, unconnected words? Me neither, but this is one of the many screwy headlines on Grazia this week that intrigued me enough to buy it. I mean like, ‘werewolf diet’? Is that a kooky version of 5:2 where you fast […]
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I’ve a feeling I might be preaching to the converted here, but it’s occurred to me in the last few years that feminism is actually rather of a Good Thing. People who I’ve never spoken to about sexism or misogyny have struck up conversations with me – an Actual Man – about wage discrepancies, the […]
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Pubes are everywhere. Nope, I’m not looking in Seth Rogan’s bath – I’m reading the papers. According to the Vagenda’s own pubes correspondent Emer’s ‘Hair, Not The Musical’ follow- up piece in The Guardian, bush pruning is a thing of the past. A campaign, fronted by Cameron Diaz of all people, is trying to convince […]
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(…we need to get this girl to feminist rehab, pronto – Ed.) Over the summer, I fell in love with a South African man. He was funny, he was sweet, handsome – and, most importantly, he let me be me. If I put on weight, he didn’t care, he just said there was more of […]
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It’s a story that has been played out many times throughout history – but it’s only a relatively contemporary notion that the female is ‘wronged’ when her husband cheats on her. Superfast history catch-up time: European rulers were once actively encouraged to play the field. The French king had a ‘maitress-en-titre’ (an official mistress), while […]
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I have always had ‘difficult’ hair. Some of my earliest memories are of my mum and I screaming at each other as she tried to drag a brush through my mountain of frizz. My hair has the texture of pubes and the feel of a baked poodle, and I’ve spent most of my adult life […]
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On a good day, my Facebook targeted ad stream might look something like: Cat food (I have a small but murderously feline-loathing dog)Internet geek dating (I already a geeky boyf, I just hate checking that ‘in a relationship’ box on Facebook. It’s my business, not the world wide web’s)Expensively rustic looking furniture (that I absolutely […]
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Readers. I want to introduce you to someone. We’ve been very (very) close friends for about 3 years now and she has changed everything. Some of you will know her well, some of you won’t but I suspect most of you have considered getting in touch. She is such an important part of my life […]
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WARNING: If you have not read, watched or engaged with the cultural phenomenon that is The Hunger Games this may spoil one or two bits for you. Like many people who are really too old to enjoy teen fiction, I love The Hunger Games trilogy. I love the post-apocalyptic setting, I love the new made-up […]
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