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…on an astral plane. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recently appeared at a Bangladeshi press conference with her hair tied back in a scrunchie and her glasses on. Photographic evidence of the event also indicates that Clinton neglected to apply state-sanctioned levels of make-up for the occasion. Bangladeshis took to the streets […]
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Everyone’s got penis envy nowadays. It cropped up in Natalie Portman’s Saturday Night Live performance where she aggressively commanded male fans to ‘suck my dick’; it shot further into mainstream media with the quintessential nightmare girlfriend in The Hangover telling her boyfriend the same thing at a wedding; and it’s continued in a variety of […]
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Just when you thought you had it covered. You’ve bought into everything you thought you needed to be a woman. You’ve got the spanx, the eyebrow tweezers, the hair straighteners, the hairdryer, the frizz ease, the cellulite arse buffer, the creme de mer, the tiny pants, the backless bra, the razors, […]
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Following the Queen’s Speech which outlined recommendations on making maternity leave more flexible for both partners – essentially reducing the amount of leave that women will take in most cases – Liz Jones of the Daily Fail responded in characteristically nonsensical manner, with ‘Good women bosses should be worn out by work… not babies.’ A […]
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When I was about ten and on holiday with my family, my mother took me aside for the Dreaded Talk. She announced that she was going to tell me “how babies are made”. I was mildly surprised; I’d always assumed you prayed for one and along it came (Christian upbringing klaxon). I guess I just […]
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Today I’ve been reading teen bible Glamour magazine. I say reading, but reading is what you do when you’re given a Milan Kundera novel and have a full day of nothing ahead of you. Bliss. With Glamour, it’s more like eye absorbing, and can be done while holding an entire conversation, without pause, about European […]
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So I am what you would term a “bookworm”. I’ve also worked for twelve years in publishing. In Earl’s Court London in April, the publishing world convened for the annual drink-and-swagger-a-thon, The London Book Fair. It was here that, as I trotted round the halls attempting to avoid previous bosses, I had a copy of […]
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It’s a lesson that we should all have learnt by now, and one that is so engrained in our consciousnesses that it almost goes without saying – ‘You made your bed, you lie in it’. And never has this been more relevant when the bed you have lain is riddled with disease. Possibly. You’re not […]
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So last weekend was a bad one for me. I was ‘that person’ (read: the drunkest there) at a party – an office party. Said party involved a bunch of guys I had previously known as normal people become slathering idiots over possibly the worst supplement ever produced by a magazine: FHM’s ‘100 Sexiest Women […]
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A Licence to Hunt: Sexual Harassment Law Repealed in France Yes, you did read that correctly: the offence of sexual harassment stopped existing in France on Friday 4th May 2012. In other words, France is now a haven for workplace sex pests. Before its untimely demise, the concept of sexual harrassment had already had a […]
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Dear more! magazine, I can really relate to the man who provides your ‘100% honest bloke advice from the guy who tells it like it is’, as a consequence, I am somewhat concerned. Recently I’ve been faced with women who are not bald downstairs, who want to date more than one man at the same […]
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