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On Monday, Sports Illustrated released its new, almost vagina revealing, cover for the 2015 swimsuit edition. This resulted in much parent outrage and lots of news articles discussing whether or not SI went too far this time. Maybe. But my question is, are people just as bothered by way women are shown on ALL magazine […]
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I’m fairly certain that most of us have been coming across articles teaching us ‘How To Give a Blow Job’ since we were about twelve (hello, every issue of Cosmo ever). Through the medium of the hallowed sex tip, the female gender has been all but programmed into instinctively knowing how much or how little to […]
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About a week ago I found myself in Sainsbury’s. Whilst perusing the aisles for my dinner, I had the awful realisation that I was shit broke, and would have to make a fateful decision on this seemingly quiet Tuesday night: dinner or tampons. This may sound a tad dramatic, but I had £1 and it […]
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Porn has been dominating the blogosphere recently because of some frankly bizarre and rather sexist legislation regarding the UK ban of the filming of several sex acts such as spanking, female ejaculation and face-sitting (apparently the latter carries a risk of suffocation). Despite attempts to censor it, the watching of porn is widespread. Think of the most […]
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George from the Famous Five – another girl who defies gender expectations Tomboy is a thing, right? It’s that phase that some little girls go through, where they don’t like pretty dresses and they do like playing at cowboys, where they rebel against their mother-imposed white tights by destroying them climbing trees, and they stare […]
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Image: Angela Campos / Memphis Workshop Do you drink pumpkin spice lattes? Do you use emoticons when you text? Do you giggle? Do you like music that other people like or wear clothes other people wear? Are you a woman? Unfortunately, any of the above is enough to label you “basic,” the ambiguous insult that […]
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Nudity is great. Or, at worst, fine. It’s natural, it’s free, and it’s achievable by absolutely everybody. One of the most common misconceptions about feminism is that it is some kind of anti-sex movement with a fear of nakedness and sexuality, which is what makes endlessly re-occurring ‘debates’ about ‘can I wear a short skirt/ […]
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“We have sexual feelings and we deal with them ourselves…Just to be able to talk about female masturbation…I find the subject both really moving and incredibly politically empowering that women can give themselves pleasure and enjoy their own bodies but it’s also really funny!” – Caitlin Moran. In this Swedish interview, Caitlin Moran (who, in the […]
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What music should you listen to when about to commence writing about a personal account of rape? This is what I’m considering right now. I have a dark sense of humour, but when I was about to make the long bus journey from Barcelona to Almeria, and I thought to myself : “Ok, this is […]
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Hae Min Lee “Does it say Sarah Koenig on it?” “I don’t know… there’s a red S on a black background?” “Yeah, that’s it.” I don’t even need to look at the screen to verify that; I know. My flatmate is trying to locate the Serial podcast on iTunes, as I’ve worn her down over […]
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What a wonderful world we now live in. The death of the barmaid – or, at least, the terminology; it’s “bartender” now please, people – should really have put the nail in the coffin for all bar-based sexism. That’s wishful thinking. But at least a woman behind a bar these days is regarded as more […]
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“Seriously. Stop.” Last Wednesday, following Australia’s lead, the Home Office denied pick-up artist Julian Blanc a UK visa after an online petition gained over 120,000 signatures. Apologizing on CNN, Julian said, ‘I feel horrible, I’m not going to be happy if I feel like I’m the most hated man in the world. I’m overwhelmed by […]
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