If we are supposed to consider Vogue the Bible of style, then I can only conclude that we must think of InStyle magazine as the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. a struggle to read.  Similarly if you don’t speak ‘fashion; then you’re probably going to find the sort of breathless, nonsensical babble that you […]

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  Like most people, I was once a virgin. And like a lot of teenage girls, when I was 15, I believed wholeheartedly in shedding my hymen as if it were the old snakeskin of childhood. ‘There are things you’ll just understand when you’ve done it,’ girls in the hallway used to say to each […]

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How can you be a man and discuss feminism without appearing to be like this bozo?   If you were to think of the most insightful, thought-provoking writers on gender issues, the chances are the majority of them would be women. As a card-carrying real-life man, I’m not entirely sure why this should be the […]

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    One fashion insider and one fashion gatecrasher share the stuff the mags don’t tell you.   The Insider   Welcome to planet fashion, darling. It’s fun, it’s glamorous, but best leave your carbs and your principles at the door. I’ll show you round. This is backstage, the dirty, noisy and sweaty coalface of […]

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      It’s Tuesday morning and I’m starting my day with a cup of tea, a load of editing and Channel 5 chat show The Wright Stuff on in the background. As the panellists chew over the issues and news stories of the day, one topic gets my attention. Bum pinching.   Apparently a […]

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    If you gathered together the assorted ideas in porn, women’s magazines, and playground hearsay, you could easily believe that there are 999 different orgasms of which women’s bodies are capable. In porn, of course, there is the greatest available variety: for one thing, a few very lucky porn stars appear to be able […]

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      The Complete Alternative History of the World, Part One by Liz Lochhead There was this man alone In a beautiful garden Stark bollock naked (Scuse my French, beg your pardon)   He was, yes, the original Nature’s Gentleman. He was in tune, at one, with nature And the lion lay down with […]

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    We all know that being a woman requires specialist material. For instance, your vagina needs its own deodorant, stylist, and stick-on jewels just to get it through the day. We need hundreds of things men don’t, like lipgloss and Veet, and we’re used to that now. But recently, there seems to have been […]

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Surviving fashion week as a feminist is no small task. Often, the only thing potentially lower than your self esteem is your blood sugar, having had very little time to eat as you run around London from casting to fitting to show. It is physically and (somewhat surprisingly) mentally draining, not to mention more politically […]

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      I tend ignore the Daily Mail as much as possible. I know I should probably join in the chorus of disapproval at its faux-family values, its women-baiting and its newly-tattooed, über-troll columnist Liz Jones. But I tend to think that’s just what the Mail wants. Attention of any kind. And maybe, just […]

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    …i.e. NOT AT ALL.    So Chortle.co.uk, one of the leading UK comedy websites, posted this charming little addition to that “ongoing ‘Are Women Funny?’ debate- because it’s been such a relevant and interesting subject so far.   It comes from hilarious comic Mike Sheer (if you’ve never heard of him, that’s because […]

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I’m starting to get to a point where I’m getting really angry with Grazia. Not in an I-write-for-the-Vagenda OMG hilaire Grazia is so pathetic LOLZ way, but in a genuinely anxious ‘what does this magazine bode for the future of women?’ kind of way. It might be because I’ve just spent the last five hours […]

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