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My vagina stinks. Or at least, that’s what my TV keeps telling me. Every time I’ve settled down to catch up on TOWIE (ahem) lately, a cartoon woman hiding behind a pot plant tells me that my vagina is one gigantic stinking sweat gland. But it’s OK – don’t panic! Because for just over a […]
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I recently turned 23: not a particularly momentous occasion but hey, any excuse to order in a shedload of curry and dance to Fleetwood Mac until the wee hours. It was an odd feeling as I thought back to twelve months before, freshly-graduated with no idea what had been happening IRL for the last three […]
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Lily Allen is right. It’s Hard Out Here for us ‘bitches’. The pop star-turned vintage shop owner- turned pop star (keep up!) has just released a single that openly mocks the markedly sexualised female figure currently dominating mainstream pop culture. The lyrics and the video are tongue-in-cheek and quite funny, showcasing myriad […]
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(Or, ‘When I Said I Grew Up On An Estate, I Didn’t Mean Downton Abbey’) As a feminist issue, class is up there with race and disability – relevant, important, too frequently overlooked, and still a major factor in deciding who can access the movement’s positive message and who is excluded from it. Over […]
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Woman: I’m on a sex strike. You’ll only get it once the government fix Boyfriend: Ok. I’ll just have a wank instead. Woman: I’m being serious. Boyfriend: So am I. We all recognise the power of the female body. We’ve been flashing breasts and arse cheeks to dupe people into doing things, buying […]
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It’s tough being a man. Orders of magnitude more so when you’re a white, heterosexual man like me. Sure, I get paid more and judged less than the rest of society, continue to benefit from a historic legacy of almost unchallenged privilege, and due in large part to this privilege have virtually the minimum possible […]
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Music is to break ups what hammers are to teeth: you combine them at your peril. Last November, after six of the happiest years of my life, I broke up with my long-term boyfriend. Actually, he wasn’t my boyfriend. I didn’t call him that. I called him my ‘partner’ so everyone thought he was a […]
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I’m a man with a penis and everything, but it’s come to my attention that I own a handbag. It looks like a backpack – but don’t be fooled, it is most definitely a handbag. It has a main compartment which holds a jumper in case I get cold (you can always take layers off), […]
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Anti-Rape Underwear has officially become a thing. Well, insofar as there is a US company prototyping the design, and, y’know, the Daily Mail has covered it. I understand the premise; they care about women’s safety and want women to feel protected and in control in potentially aggressive or intimidating situations. However, if I’m honest, the […]
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In a moment of shocking originality for a twenty-something graduate, I have moved to London. I can’t afford it, my skin has taken on a texture that is best described as ‘interesting’, and one day I got so badly lost that it took me three hours to get to work. On the other hand, it’s […]
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So Thor: The Dark World made its global premiere in London on Tuesday, and, for me at least, has already created quite a stir. Not the sexy stir in the nethers that one would usually associate with Hemsworth’s flowing locks and biceps (yeah feel my objectification), but rather that kind of angry stir you […]
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Hadley Freeman’s recent Guardian piece about the decline in contraceptive use amongst young women got us wanting to hear tales from the horse’s mouth. Here, one woman confesses all about her continued reliance on him pulling out…Oh, and N.B, just in case we’re not clear: THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED BY THE NHS […]
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