(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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I have always appreciated the importance of hindsight. Without understanding the mistakes of our past, we are liable to be like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons, forever stepping on a rake and shuddering. But sometimes there are things that I’d rather forget. Like how, for a whole fucking year, I had unprotected sex with my […]

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  Look, I carved a pumpkin. Look at my pumpkin, I have taken photos. Look how frickin’ BRILLIANT I am at carving. I am so crafty. Whose pumpkin is the best? Me and my housemates are competing. #craftisgreat.     LOOK! I’m going to a Halloween party, because I have FRIENDS. And we don’t take […]

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  Did you know that 75% of women feel depressed, guilty and shameful within 3 minutes of reading a women’s magazine?    I know, right, what the fuck? That’s ages! I got depressed within ONE MINUTE of reading this week’s Grazia.    It wasn’t your classic front cover shot of ‘under attack’ Gwynnie epitomising Grazia’s […]

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