by thevagenda
Fire. It’s a man thing isn’t it? Right? Guys? It’s men lording it over a BBQ, men overseeing the local bonfire on the 5th of November, and men poking dwindling flames with a big stick. Possibly while naked girls dance around it. But! But but but. Hang on a minute. Define fire for me, please […]
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So, I’ve been fuming about this Guardian article, entitled ‘Feminists can be sexy and funny, but it’s anger that changes the world’ for two whole days now, and thought it was high time that I wrote something about it. In fact, I woke up angry about it, and seeing as it’s anger that is […]
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- them’s some fuck ugly shoes On paper, Louise “Louise Mensch” Mensch is cool (apart from when she leaves comments on blogs accusing us of being Labour supporters for not liking her – Ed) She did English at Oxford, interned at MTV, worked in EMI’s press department and then gave up being cool and […]
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Before I begin on this one, I’d like to offer a disclaimer: I recognise that having a go at the Daily Mail is like shooting fish in a barrel, or say, for instance, like shooting the six year old children of celebrities / every woman ever who dares to have cellulite / a tattoo / […]
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I desperately wanted to like this film. It’s an “anti-romcom” as director Dan Mazer at pains to tell us here, so I was prepared for something subversive, a little bit cleverer than those romantic films where I always tear up at the mention of the title. I scoffed in the cinema as the […]
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Once upon a time, there was a radiant Duchess. Everybody loved her. Her hair was so shiny. Her bump was so neatly tucked away beneath a flimsy Max Mara dress that kept it clearly visible. Her hands were so neatly cupped beneath it. She smiled. She laughed. She flicked at the shiny hair […]
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So I was on the tube this morning, and I came across this little baby: Thanks, Wardrobe – no really, thankyou. While the feminist movement has striven towards breaking down barriers in workplace equality – including issues such as the 30,000 women forced out of their jobs for being pregnant or […]
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Feminist discussion has become a characteristic, and somewhat unavoidable, feature of my family’s dinner times, occasionally to my parent’s dismay. Sometimes, after about 45 minutes in, after which topics such as lad culture, rape, vajazzles and Frankie Boyle are fully exhausted and we’re only just moving on to the pros and cons of […]
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The now-defunct Teenopendiary was my first ever foray into internet blogging. When I was fourteen, I’d spend hours on there moaning about my parent’s divorce and writing dubious poetry about boys from school, all in tiny six point Arial on large expanses of emo white. The Teenopendiary community was one built around attention-seeking and co-dependency, […]
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