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Generally speaking, I quite like leaving the house from time to time. I don’t find it difficult to gain enjoyment from watching bands and going out to eat food that I can barely afford, not to mention drinking various liquids: a habit which I’ve found conveniently successful in keeping me alive. Separately, I […]
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Recently, I read an article in Libertine Magazine about business impresario Cindy Gallop and her website makelovenotporn.tv. Greeting visitors with the phrase ‘Hello Sweetie’ (River Song anyone?) Gallop’s website, which was at TED in 2009 with this fantastic speech, aims to create a big friendly sex co-operative and educate people about the realities of […]
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Jezebel called them ‘the happy housewives of the working world’. Graduate Fog discussed the constant calls for them to present themselves as ‘enthusiastic, submissive and obedient’. And Company magazine dedicated one of their features this month to celebrating their continued existence. It was called ‘How To Be A Good Intern’ – and, as […]
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I love the swimming pool changing rooms. What a fabulous, boob-swingingly comfortable place for women to be women – the air perfumed by E45 and Herbal Essences, your ears filled with the sound of shopping lists being read to babies and feet padding on tepid puddles of chlorine. I didn’t realise how important this […]
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Aged 3 years old, this photograph shows the last time I ate ice cream without feeling guilty As my second book The Ministry of Thin comes out this month, the question I keep being asked is this: what does a ‘recovered anorexic’ have to tell us about body image and feminism? Quite […]
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The first time I saw the Daily Mail, it was nestled next to The Times, dressed up like a real newspaper for the entire world to see. There was clearly one thing on Paul Dacre’s mind: with this paper, I can simultaneously piss everyone off, chuck in some light racism, homophobia, misogyny and […]
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Bonjourno, fellow ladybros! I know you’re all busy, out there challenging the patriarchy – and, if you’re anything like me, trying to find a decent job that will mean I can buy some new tights (there’s a chance my arse will fall out of these ones, they are honestly now so decrepit round the […]
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Masturbation was always something I wanted to talk about when I was growing up, but I refrained because I felt like I was the only person doing it. Anaemic blobs of cartoon women – hands jollily thrusted into their white cotton panties -smiled kindly from the pages of puberty guides but, unsurprisingly, did little […]
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Dear members of Scunthorpe slags, Right now I should be blogging about child prostitution for work, but my passion for stamping out slags in our society is distracting me. I need your help. I keep seeing Facebook groups, like yours, devoted to identifying slags in a specific town or city. It seems like […]
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Over my pre-university summer, I often thought about what going to an age-old Russell group college would hold for me. Visions of sitting up all night, drinking, smoking, listening to one of the great Kates (Nash or Bush) and debating about who we loved more, Simone De Beauvoir or Caitlin Moran, came immediately to […]
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My God, if there isn’t some crazy mad shit on the Cosmo US website this month. The first thing I feasted my eyes on was this (see above). Clearly, Cosmo are attempting to rebrand themselves as the Buzzfeed of men’s cocks, and I’m not one to stand in the way of that […]
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Last week, the trailer for the new film, Diana, ‘dropped’. It’s a biopic of Princess Letizia of Spain. It’s not. Now, a few things first. I like Diana, here’s why I like Diana: - She seemed kind and generous and did a lot of good work for charity, and somehow managed to be […]
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