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This week, Esquire gave us what for, under the title ‘Ladies: You’re Not as Good as You Think.’ The summary is: all women everywhere think they’re good in bed, but they’re not, and I want them to give more blowjobs. If you’re not familiar with his boundary-pushing work, Chris Jones is the author who […]
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Plunging into the insidious depths of Closer magazine – which is so meta nowadays that it boasts another mini Closer magazine inside of it, under the thoroughly confusing headline: FREE with this week’s Closer!: CLOSER! – is always inadvisable on a Thursday night, but even more so now. Instead of reducing its featured celebrity women […]
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A friend just passed this on to me:Media Outlet: Grazia (Personal case study) Freelance journalist: (Name omitted)Media Type: National newspaper / Current affairs Deadline: 30 March 2012 at 09:00 Query I’m writing a piece about how women are working harder than ever. I’d love to speak to a women who either:Takes anti-depressants to cope with my jobHad a baby […]
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Punk DJ offers “Cash for Gash.” We’ve all had some pretty terrible nights out in our time. Remember those ones where you spend hours queuing for some sub-standard club only to give up and wander the streets at 3am looking for the next watering hole, as your resolve to party as a verb fades to […]
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It’s a whole new Tuesday, which means a whole new Grazia today, but before we move on to what I have high hopes will be a celebratory post on the magazine’s new, entirely woman-friendly stance, I have one last bone to pick with Grazia circa March 20th.Because we had so much excellent material for the […]
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Feminism: it’s a funny old thing, isn’t it? One moment you’re throwing yourself under a carriage, and the next thing you’re dropping off your vote for the London Mayor en route to the accountancy job that supports you and your child-rearing house husband. It’s almost like, well, progress. And that’s why I’m so baffled about […]
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Grazia is constantly throwing shit and some of it is sticking. Increasingly, a woman’s role in society is to duck and dive from these shitbombs on a weekly basis. They’re coming in thick and fast. This week’s issue was a veritable monsoon of excrement. We kick off with “INSIDE THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB”. […]
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‘Are thin women the enemy?’ asked BBC Magazine this week, to which the inevitable conclusion was: all shapes and sizes are beautiful, let’s celebrate that, please represent svelte little beanpoles and the ‘huge n happy’ band of neo-Beth Dittos and maybe even the normal people in between a little bit more. And as much as […]
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What do women want? Octopus sex, it seems. Laydeez, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever been turned on by? Female sexuality has always been a bit of a mystery. Not least to us. So we thought we’d ask (anonymously of course) some Vagenda ladies for some of their weirdest erotic experiences. Here’s what […]
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Generally at The Vagenda we tend to leave the women’s monthly glossies alone. That’s not just because they tend to have a better quality of writer, but also because it’s pretty darn difficult to find anything interesting or humorous to say about 260 odd pages of skirts punctuated with adverts for skirts. Marie […]
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Advert via Stylist. The Mail has tried to draw a distinction between a man “beating” his partner and “hitting” her Sometimes, an article will come along that is so anger-inducing, so latently misogynistic, that joking about it is nigh on impossible. Thankfully today’s article justifying domestic violence in the Mail is not one of them. […]
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Life’s tough as a woman. You’ve fulfilled both your life’s ambitions: you’ve baked a perfect batch of cupcakes, AND owned a particularly fluffy kitten. All that’s left is marriage, and your best friend beat you to it. No wonder none of this lot could behave with appropriate decorum. […]
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