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We all know someone who’s attractive and cool and maybe a little bit arrogant, but something about their sense of humour, or their smile, makes you like them anyway. They’re sexy and they know it, but somehow they manage to make you feel pretty good too. Sure, you hate most of their other friends. And […]
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This week on the Vagenda, we bring you even more Playboy bunny bullshit! After a vagenda writer took objection to the fact that her local gymbox had teamed up with Playboy to run a class called ‘Bunny Bootcamp’, yet had the audacity to claim that ‘Playboy embraces the women of today in a […]
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I’ve just put the phone down on one of the most humiliating conversations I’ve had in a long time. It’s far too late for me to contemplate changing back out of my pyjamas, so on goes a particularly attractive sheepskin jumper recovered from my granddad’s shed, and fondly known to all as “the animal”, as […]
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A new book is coming out called ’50/50: How working couples can have it all by sharing it all’, which suggests that men and women are happier if they split the housework equally. This seems so blindingly obvious I’m amazed they got a book out of it: anyone who’s ever had a flatmate […]
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Helena Frith-Powell being awesome at housework 1. Royal broodmare Kate Middleton had a ‘perfect, natural birth’ that absolutely did not involve pooing on the table or calling someone a cunt. 2. Sponge cake botherer and style muffin Mary Berry admitted that, when she said she wasn’t a feminist, she didn’t actually […]
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We googled ‘cougar’ and this is what came up He’s 23. I’m 29. Okay, it’s hardly Madonna and Jesus, but it’s weird. I’m a bit ashamed of myself for finding it weird, because I’ve had a number of relationships with more significant age gaps. One boyfriend was 9 years older than me and […]
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So, I joined a gym. Because y’know, health. My weekend is fry-ups, no sleep, and all the wine. I’ve inherited my mother’s slim frame (shout out to Jeanette!) but was never a PE-lover at school. The only exercise I did at university was horizontal. It’s about time. After crying into a cake […]
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Recently The Guardian ran an article titled “Should we care that smart women aren’t having kids?”. According to the author, Sadhbe Walshe, some man in a white coat reckons maternal urges drop by 25 per cent with every 15 IQ points. Paradoxically, instead of concluding that smarter women are perhaps making smarter choices […]
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Firstly, a little context: I am a Brit who has returned to Australia after ten years in the UK. My two weeks here have convinced me that yes, life Sydney-side is pretty good, although it’s BLOODY expensive and my brother was less than thrilled about being called a ‘Pommie ‘c*nt’ during an innocent stroll about […]
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We’ve all got a guilty pleasure online and while for some of you it will be DIY porn projects or the ASOS flatform section, mine is totally naff: Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable forum. I don’t have any babies yet, nor am I particularly wound up by an evil ‘MIL’ (that’s mother-in-law, […]
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Does anyone else remember it? A poem by Liz Lochhead, called ‘The Choosing’. I read it in an old exam paper I was using to revise for my English GCSE, back in the late 90s. In it, the female narrator remembers how she and her friend Mary were top of the class in […]
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I have been clean for 6 months. It has been a painful struggle and temptations to yield are everywhere. Every newsagent. Every supermarket. I can even get it for free at the hairdresser’s. I have an addiction to woman’s magazines. Perhaps addiction is a bit strong. I wasn’t about to sell a kidney […]
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