by thevagenda
Last week, while on holiday in France, I was in a bar with two male acquaintances I had recently met there. One, a good-looking blonde guy, was telling a story about a particularly bad case of ‘blue balls’ (or ‘le blue balls’ perhaps?) he had experienced recently. He’d spent the night with a girl, but […]
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Every now and then in our professional field (professionally eating white chocolate spread out of a tin while writing about internet feminism), you come across some Really Important Questions that set you thinking about your entire ideological positioning and what it means in an international context. And sometimes you don’t. This post is dedicated to […]
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So, I’ve just done the whole ‘boomerang baby’ thing and moved back home after uni. There have been many bad things about this, most of which I probably wouldn’t go into because we’d need a few good hours of therapy and a mop for the TEARS OF FIRST WORLD SUFFERING. But I digress. One […]
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So, following our New Statesman article about Ellie Cosgrave’s protest against sexual harassment and assault on public transport, the ladybro herself got in touch to say thank you, but also to pass on something a lot less pleasant and a hell of lot more pervy (like x 10,000). She writes: ‘I’m writing to point […]
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In magazineland, sports bra shopping looks like this. In real life, it looks like this: I went shopping today on my lunch hour. I should probably point out first that this is a rare occurrence – I abhor shopping. My soul is sucked into the great grey void that is the shopping centre as […]
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‘This Morning’ is a favourite with the ‘not working at 10:30am’ community, i.e me. Some people think it’s rubbish and that complaining about this kind of mindless telly is pointless, but one woman’s trash TV is another woman’s treasure, and I love ‘This Morning’. I love the cooking, the fashion, Dr. Chris, the […]
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Have you heard the news? Apparently we, and by we I mean that group known as ‘the ladies’, actually LIKE sex. As in, we enjoy it. Shagging. And furthermore, we actually like sex as much as men do. Perhaps even MORE. As Stylist magazine put it this week: ‘Some women like sex. Get […]
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On opening the magazine Grazia for the first time in many a moon, the first phrase I see is ‘BAG CRUSH’, and my tender heart sinks. Having just been on holiday in France, I have been spoiled by the twin delights of the magazines Bridget and Causette, both of which, refreshingly, have irreverent […]
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