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A protestor at the Delhi Slut Walk. Photo: Mustafa Quraishi I can never escape the scowling disapproval I receive from others when announcing my love of Feminism. It’s swiftly followed by: “So you’re a man hater then?” at which point in the conversation I get huffy, lose all will to articulate the English Language […]
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Ruth Orkin, 1951 Whenever I write about “stuff that’s bad for ladies” I usually get responses from ladies, saying “yes, that happens to me too and it does suck! What can we do about it!” I also get responses from gentlemen saying “it happens to us too, why aren’t you writing about that?” “Not […]
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Dating: it’s an activity fraught with anxiety. Some people see it as a sport; some people see it at the sports day where you get picked last by some sympathetic class member who will ultimately become irritated by your inadequacies. And there’s no doubt that a date is one of the last bastions of hideously […]
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Unless you’ve been in a cave for the last seven or eight years you will probably have noticed the Olympic and Paralympic Games are coming to London this summer. I have to be honest, until recently, I loved everything about the Olympics (apart from Mendeville and Wenlock who are just plain menacing) and have defended […]
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Jacqueline Woodhouse isn’t doing very well. A racist ranter of the most wasted calibre, Woodhouse was hit with a fine in 2008 for doing some sweary nonsense on the tube. Now she’s done it again and is going to prison for 21 weeks, after a fellow passenger filmed her mid-tirade. There […]
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This week’s more! cover, of Kim Kardashian in a bikini saying ‘I work hard for this body’ is about as close to a tits and teeth Lads Mag cover as you can get. Sometimes I wonder why I keep buying this shit, but then I remember that it’s for you guys, and that I […]
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A little under a year ago something rather startling happened to me: I was in receipt of a beautifully garbled proposal of marriage. I accepted said proposal, as a) it made me happy to do so, and b) he’s LOVELY. And I really, honestly thought that those were reasons enough. Oh no, I thought, in […]
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As a general rule, for a woman to gain a national standing in politics she must be a) exceptionally brilliant, thick skinned and charismatic, or b) willing to pose for GQ. Those ladies choosing the former path should note that in addition to this, Americans seem to like their female politicians lifeless and unusually […]
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If you prick P-Midz, does she bleed? Does she ever lie awake at night, thinking about death? Does she suffer from colds, sometimes, or self doubt? Or read books about the history of chicken farming in Venezuela? Does she ever proceed to take harmless, if petty, revenge on the suit who swiped the last seat […]
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Smugly employed 30-something journalist takes infuriating tone of helpless wonder and amazement at number of young people unemployed and living with parents. Phenomenon breathlessly reported in manner akin to finding a unicorn living wild and free in Peckham Rye when, for god’s sake, this is an obvious and now longstanding consequence of the terrible recession […]
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Every woman has her own battle. Be it a tempestuous relationship with a tanning agent, difficulty finding the perfect moisturiser, or the correct way to deal with being offered a seat on the tube, everybody’s got something that simultaneously really needs to be personally reconciled with and really, really gets on their tits. Mine’s cupcakes. […]
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First, a confession. I love Made In Chelsea. I love their lives and their holidays, I really love their ‘jobs’. I get especial pleasure from their huge, blindingly white teeth and their ridiculously fulsome and glossy hair (surely the result of generations of trophy wives). There is genuinely nothing I like better than sitting in […]
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