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When done correctly, power dressing can be like donning invisible superhero armour I work in one of those offices where you’re expected to dress ‘well’. You know, where the guys come in in Topman and the girls come in with a dress by Ms Celine, whose services were prioritised over Mr Heinz, Mr […]
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Act I, Scene I The shop floor of a cupcake shop. Dee, the proprietor of D:licious Cupcakes, is holding a meeting with her three ‘cupcake artisans’, Lulu, Moni and Jonesy. Dee: Okay, girlies, we’re going to be doing a burlesque-themed cupcake line for the annual amateur burlesque competition! Anyone got any really naughtyideas? Lulu: How […]
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Keep your hair on, ladies! Just kidding.Someone told me once that you’ve got to be really handsome or have a baby face to get away with having a skin-head, unless you want to look like a thug. There are exceptions but I think I agree on the whole. You’re probably a bit worried where I’m […]
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Another week, another bit of G-spot news. Does it exist? Doesn’t it? Are you a Richard Dawkins or an Archbishop of Canterbury (Cuntebury?) The debate, which alarmingly seems to be dominated by sciency white men, is somewhat wearing, so we decided to just ask some real women. Hence the G-Spot diaries, part one… “I bet […]
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This week brought us apocalyptic rainfall, Leveson megalolz, and the slightly quieter reporting of Miss Cosmetic Surgery 2012. The naming and the nature of this competition (‘there is only one criteria to enter – you must have had plastic surgery and you must want more’ says the Mirror) is so built for ravaging at the […]
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Ah the memories… delightful freeloader Arianna Huffington, creator of My Blog Is Your Blog (aka The Huffington Post) has decided to resurrect (copy/paste) a classic work of modern women’s literature. In 1997 Glamour compiled a list to measure your life/concentration power by: “30 Things Every Women Should Have And Should Know By […]
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A weekly look at the women and women’s stuff we love… You might think, when reading the Vagenda, that we have a hell of a lot of beef with a hell of a lot of women. We don’t. We have feministic steak tartare type beef with SOME women in the media, which […]
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ACT 1 On the way home from work Frances and Phyllis walk past a newsstand, Frances does a double take. FRANCES: Damn! Did I just see top model Nyasha on the cover of Vogue? PHYLLIS: UK Vogue? Phyllis looks quizzically at Frances. Frances is uncertain. FRANCES: Nah its probably Italian Vogue PHYLLIS: Makes sense, […]
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When assigning a name to this bizarre, barely-understood condition, they couldn’t have really thought of an uglier name than “vaginismus”. When I first heard it, a few years ago, I thought it sounded clinical and at the same time utterly lacking in substance. What on earth does it really tell us about the condition, […]
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I was seventeen years old, living in the most backward depths of Gloucestershire, and I needed the morning-after pill. They’d told us that it existed at school, during a stilted and awkward sex education lesson where they also asked us to ‘write down as many STDs as you can think of’ and put a condom […]
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The advertising game is no longer like anything resembling Mad Men. This should not be a surprise to you- Mad Men is sleek, sophisticated. It has panache, and, increasingly, great jokes, mostly brought to you by the inimitable Roger Sterling. In contrast, modern advertising, in my limited experience (one eight hour day at a London […]
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Do you know who I hate? Pretty people. And not just because their lives are clearly so much easier than mine in every way (I hear they don’t pay taxes), but because now there’s a morally questionable dating website that allows them to travel for free with generous strangers. While complimentary champagne may be the […]
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