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I’m worried about sarcasm. Generally my fall back position as a response to anything, I feel I may have fallen foul of the dictated self deprecation that dominates popular media. Glamour magazine provides a monthly list of the things it is ’ok’ by them, to do. You have their permission, they’ll turn a blind eye […]
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So, I got old this week. Well, 25. But it’s a whole new box I have to tick, people, a WHOLE NEW BOX. And being old, I thought I’d give yummy mummy bible Red Magazine a go. Posited as it is for slightly more mature women, I assumed that this would translate to its content. […]
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It’s been a good few years since Johnny Cash told us that it’s difficult to be a boy called Sue (yea, yea, I know Shel Silverstein did it first – but sshh, listen!) and we’ve had a fair amount of time to lament his fate. You may remember that the Sue in question was so […]
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In its trademark moderate and anti-scaremongering tone, the Daily Fail today lent us some more sage advice on feminism. ‘Why Holly’s BETRAYING women [their capitalisation, not mine] by going bare-faced, says Liz Jones, who argues that real feminists trowel on the make-up’ read the headline, attempting as usual to only attract the most discerning readership […]
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Why is Monroe still heralded as an icon for women? Everyone knows the beautiful Marilyn Monroe – blonde bombshell and iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Her beauty may not have launched a thousand ships, or at least a poem about launching a thousand ships, but it did earn her fame, fortune, and the hearts […]
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The series of Tampax plus (geddit?) on telly – which feature Mother Nature personified as the form of a post-menopausal woman in green – have been running for some time now. The woman representing nature carries a red box, in turn representing the ‘gift’ of a period, to give to her unsuspecting ‘victim’. We women […]
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When I was little, I had two ambitions. One: to be a book illustrator, two: to be a lab technician. The latter was because all the clips on Blue Peter and in the news of people wearing white coats and using pipettes looked so clean and futuristic, they were finding things out which made a […]
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Woah there, hipsters. Before you jump down my throat faster than an ice cream shaped cakesickle hybrid, I’m not about to say that I want to kill Belle & Sebastian. I quite like Belle & Sebastian, when I’m in the right frame of mind. But all this twee shit really has got to […]
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Scene: Boardroom of FTSE 100 company: Six men and one woman sit around a large table. A female secretary sits in the corner taking notes. CEO: Finally, I’d like to formally introduce our new Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Aitcherson, to her first quarterly board meeting. Could you kick us off with financial summary […]
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It’s near impossible for me to walk past a display of “lad magazines” without recalling the ridiculous example I saw in 2004. One of the weekly lads’ mags – I can’t remember if it was Nuts or Zoo – carried as the front page headline: “REVEALED – what happens when girls shower!” It […]
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Nicolas Coleridge of Conde Nast once snootily said that Grazia is only read by Au Pairs. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s just such a hilariously snarky quote that I just can’t stop repeating it. Take that, Grazia! No one influential reads your magazine. BURN. HOWEVER, I was an […]
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