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I stopped dating right after I sat opposite one guy in Covent Garden who, without a shred of irony, told me that his childhood dream had been to become a ‘massive capitalist.’ I had been single for a few months, following a disastrous break-up where my boyfriend’s parting words to me involving the invented insult […]
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Lady journalist and Vagenda-friend Rosamund Urwin recently appeared on This Morning talking about strip clubs, and inevitably attracted unwanted attention from some likely lad on Twitter asking, snidely, if she felt that there was a correlation between being ugly and hating strip clubs. After the initial patriarchal eyeroll, I attempted to engage with said individual […]
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Why black women are left out in the cold Apparently it’s a great time to be a female writer in Hollywood. The success of Kristin Wiig’s Bridesmaids, Jane Goldman’s Kickass and Lena Dunham’s Girls are testimony to this. These women are proving that girls can be funny and that we’re not all obsessed with men, […]
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I stopped shaving. Legs, pits, bits – I ceased cultivation and let them revert to a state of nature. I watched as a forest sprang up, thick and threatening, warning all travellers who wouldst venture therein – Here There Be Witches. I imaginatively called my experiment in body hair ‘the experiment,’ and planned to remain […]
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I’m extremely bad at judging weather, so I always layer up. This sounds clever and sensible, as if I have a multitude of outfits on, like a fashionable onion, but it really just means I end up lugging three jumpers and a pair of thick tights around in an overstuffed satchel as […]
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So it’s always fun to see the slant that people will put on totally uninteresting studies, and this week threw up a particularly shit one. A ‘study’ into who people make most of their mobile phone calls to was actually published in an academic journal called Scientific Reports, which is surely the equivalent of publishing […]
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Lucy Mangan says you’re crap with your money, and I am inclined to agree. Money is one of those awful taboos in relationships these days, in the exact same way that sex was fifty years ago, i.e. who’s getting the most out of it? Do we bring different things to the table and does the […]
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Einstein: you might have heard of him. Theory of relativity, questionable hairstyle and all that. You might have even heard of the controversy surrounding his marriage to fellow physics student Mileva Maric, with whom he spent a long time discussing calculations and promising to do ‘joint’ work with, before never referencing her contributions in any […]
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2131769/Will-YOU-inherit-mothers-body.html The day had started out rather neatly until this turd of an article appeared in front of me. Top and centre, complete with big picture, the doom-mongering headline asks: WILL YOU INHERIT YOUR MUM’S BODY?” This is annoying for several reasons, firstly because no one gives a crap and secondly it’s the wrong question. […]
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Dear The Huffington Post, It pains me that, in 2012, I need to write this, but, surprise, if Bar Rafaeli tweets that she had a pat-down at the airport that made her uncomfortable, then that’s it. End of story. If anything, such a revelation prompts an investigation into the practices of American frisking staff, and […]
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Oh, hey Grazia. It’s been a while, eh? What? You didn’t miss us? Oh. It’s been about three weeks since we tackled Grazia. Not because we were worried that the Vagenda was turning into a bit of a Grazia hate-fest (totally fine by us), but just because, sometimes, you need […]
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