Poor The Menz. The internet is horrible for them. It’s full of women whingeing about getting raped, complaining about being told what to wear and getting their knickers in a twist over stuff like FGM and honour killings – stuff which usually happen thousands of miles away! And for some reason, this is […]

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  Here are some of the things that I worried about while I was an undergraduate: work, money, what I was going to do after I graduated, the new coalition government, work, whether I should be having more sex to fulfil the student experience, my omnipresent pasta food baby, work and does that sonnet really mean what […]

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    As I’m about to go off on a massive whang here, I’d like to start with something positive. Let’s kick off with London, 2012. Everyone liked the Olympics. What an absolute cracker they were. What a crowning glory. What a time to be passionate about sports, to be British, to be a woman. […]

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  Remember the last time that you came on your period? When you reached into your sparkly, pink handbag, rooted around amongst all the glitter and pictures of kittens, grabbed your neatly packed sanitary towel tin and thought with a dreamy, perfectly lipsticked smile, ‘You know what? More than anything, I wish two wrongs made […]

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If I ever have a daughter, I’m going to advise her to wait as long as she can to lose her virginity (OK, until she’s eighteen or something; I don’t want her to be a thirty-year-old virgin loser). It wouldn’t be for any puritanical reason, but simply because I lost mine when I was sixteen, […]

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      Louisa Peacock, who is deputy women’s editor of the Telegraph, would like you to know that her decision to keep her (admittedly rather fabulous) surname was definitely, absotively posolutely not about embracing feminism. She would also like you, and the esteemed readers of the Telegraph, to know that “most young women who […]

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    I have a dirty secret to confess. Although I am an ardent feminist, I’ve always looked down on those women complaining about the pressure they were under, the time and money and energy required to apply enough slap and remove enough hair to leave the house without incurring the disdain of the patriarchy. […]

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    Our London Mayor, the obviously intelligent (speak for yourself – Ed) yet incredibly baffling Boris Johnson, has recently declared that women go to University ‘to find a husband.’  Does he really believe that or is he being deliberately incendiary?  Boris likes to set gaffes like land mines and yes, the man was a […]

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    A few months ago I was sat in the library writing my dissertation on Edith Wharton and Dorothy Parker: two notable American authors of their respective generations. I suddenly noticed that for every time I’d written a comparison between the two it read ‘these two female authors’ – it was as if I […]

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  Tampons: a turn on? You’d think so from looking at this Spanish advert, which carries the slogan “Este verano, mojate” (This Summer, get wet).  For too long have men not found women’s sanitary products sexy! Behold, a brave new world, wherein every trip to the toilet can be a turn on, every few hours […]

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    Guys, I think we all can agree that adverts about sanitary towels and tampons are beyond patronising – nobody really feels like jumping and dancing and, er, skydiving when they’re on their period – but for around 7 years, even walking while I was on my period was agony. So no leaping, dancing […]

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  Like unwanted red onion all over the salad that is your TV schedule, you could hardly fail to notice that television is overflowing with food these days. It’s a wonder TV channels manage to squeeze in the occasional cheap talent show or Armageddony news report in between the hundreds of hours of cookery programs […]

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