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A week ago I started an online petition that had the unexpected consequence of reducing one of the Lad Bible posse’s Archbishops of Banterbury into a grovelling French existentialist philosopher on Newsnight. Numbed by the sheer spectacle of a grown man being demolished by a calmly relentless Emily Maitlis, I still couldn’t help but wonder: […]
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I was watching an episode of Hell’s Kitchen a few weeks ago (yes I know, it’s a guilty pleasure), and a contestant from the blue (men’s) team said, “I’m not going to let this little girl intimidate me.” Two things happened when I heard that. Firstly, I had a visceral gut reaction of ugh. Secondly, it made […]
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In the wake of her parents’ divorce, Kylie Jenner posted up a quote on Instagram by the poet R M Drake who, from what I can see, seems to specialise in quaint, whimsical nonsense. A vague, mystical figure, R M Drake supplies anodyne lines to the second cycle of Kardashians and celebrities against whom various […]
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I’m an ex-Brixton party girl. I’m an ex-convent girl from Sussex. I’m also, rather boringly, an ex-Project Manager. What I am now is a Stay At Home Mum. But I feel more like a litany of exes. I am, quite frankly, grieving ‘me’. I want me back – I liked me. I treated me well, […]
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‘Oh, just put Ms.’ Whenever I’m asked, ‘Is it Miss or Mrs?’, I find myself saying this in as casual and non-threatening a voice as possible. ‘Oh, don’t you go troubling yourself, let’s just put Ms for your convenience,’ is the tone I’m going for. Heaven forfend you should worry, for even a second, that […]
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Dear Sweaty Betty, I write to you as an affectionate, nay passionate, follower of your brand. My (frequent) trips to your boutiques provide everything this ‘modern’ woman could want: neon hair-ties, attractive sports-bras, tastefully lit changing rooms… So why the letter? In short, because this ‘modern’ woman couldn’t be more disillusioned by Sweaty Betty’s recent […]
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A lot of the time when you’re a woman in the media who talks about gender equality and all that, people tell you to ‘get laid’. And the thing is, there is no real response to that. ‘I had sex this morning, thanks, and the man responsible didn’t manage to pound feminism right out of […]
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If you were looking for a show to represent feminism and 21st century women, I don’t think Doctor Who would necessarily be your first choice. For most casual viewers, the predominately female companions, or as they are woefully known, the ‘assistants’, are always playing second fiddle to the show’s main hero, the Doctor, and the […]
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Mary Kelly, Circa 1968, 2004 (Image: http://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibition-view) Friday 5th September saw the opening of On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, Mary Kelly’s first gallery show in the UK in ten years. Installed at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery off Regent Street, the exhibition constitutes a fascinating development in […]
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Are you feminist enough? Well, are you? Do you refuse advances by saying ‘no’ rather than ‘I have a boyfriend’? Do you leave your body hair unshaven? Did you refuse to take your husband’s name? Do you even have a husband? Do you negotiate pay rises? Do you wear mini-skirts, or are you more of […]
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I overhear a lot of absurd things while walking my dog up Runyon Canyon in Hollywood. For instance, I saw a boy coaxing his tiny Yorkie puppy toward the entrance with the words, “Come on, Walter, it’s about time we hiked this bitch.” There was also the time a very fit dad badgered his three-year-old […]
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When I was growing up I practised my make-up skills on a dismembered head I kept on my desk. She had luscious blonde locks, tarantula-like eye-lashes, and a wide-eyed, shocked, deer-in-the-headlights stare, possibly owing to the fact that she was wondering why she could not feel her legs. I splashed mascara, blusher, and lipstick over […]
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