Like everyone else who is done with puberty and has managed to cling onto a sense of proportion, I don’t take a lot of interest in Miley Cyrus, the former Disney star who is apparently corrupting millions of young girls by wearing bikinis and smoking legal substances. Yesterday, however, even I was made aware of […]

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I’ve worried about my skin colour since I first tied my tie wrong, pulled on my secondary school blazer, finished the latest copy of Mizz and had my year seven nickname – ‘Ghost’ – shouted at me from further down the hallway. Awkward, dark-haired, luminously pale-skinned in a chronically anaemic rather than radiant way, I […]

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        One year ago next month, I was lucky enough to marry the most wonderful woman and am immensely proud that every day I live and breathe I am able to call her my wife (her good fortune with regard to ending up with me remains questionable). Over these eleven months of […]

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    Don’t you just hate men? Well no, actually. But that’s what many would assume once they hear the words “I’m a feminist.” Say what? Girl stuff? Bitches be crazy!   My boyfriend recently read me a poem by Michael Leunig which could summarise how people misinterpret feminism as women just hating on men. […]

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    Here at the Vagenda we like to keep our fingers on the pulse on what’s going on in ladyland. And it’s a whole lot of crazy shit from the looks of things. During our hours and hours of internet research, we found literally hundreds of barmy products aimed at you and your girlyparts. […]

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      ‘Is it really necessary for [beach volleyball player’s] costumes to be so teeny-weeny?’ the July 2012 issue of Marie Claire sensibly asked. ‘And could the players’ honed, muscular and nowhere-near-size-zero physiques change the way we perceive women’s bodies?’ it continued, seemingly sensible, before cheerfully providing the answer to their question by running […]

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I did a terrible thing this weekend: I bought Star magazine. It’s hard to tell whether it was the action-packed cover of crying women that drew me in, or the tasty offer that assured me it was the ‘best value celeb mag’ at ‘66p cheaper than Heat.’ But whatever it was, I’m ashamed to say […]

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    One of the things on my list of pet hates (just after caravans and the phrase ‘no sugar ta, I’m sweet enough) is the notion of the so-called ‘body language experts’. Firstly, because the term ‘expert’ is somewhat oxymoronic- as human beings, we all interact with one another all the time, and, unless […]

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I mean, really? Did they have to go with such obvious phallic imagery? Were I in a worse mood I’d probably mutter something about how the woman in the picture is clearly submissive to the unseen person who is dangling asparagus in her heavily photoshopped face. But I’m in a great mood, so all I’m […]

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    I’m 22 years old, and I don’t know how to put on a condom.   I could probably work it out – I mean, I have a degree and everything – but that’s not really the point. The point is that I went through twelve years or whatever of compulsory education and was […]

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        As a blogger, I get my fair share of inane press releases landing in my inbox – from greetings with gender identity problems (“Dear Sir/ Madam”) to those that sidestep the problem of my having a name by beginning with the all-encompassing “hello there!” That’s just the opening though, the prelude […]

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What makes an ogle ok?       Objectify: (verb) to treat something as a mere object, to deny its dignity   This week in my house there has been much marvelling at Olympic bodies: gasping at the broadness of the swimmers, wowing at the cyclists’ tree-trunk thighs and phwoaring at the hockey players. Because […]

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