Darcy is dead, so Bridget is back! Having disappeared into blissful obscurity for 14 years, the woman who gave us singletons, smug marrieds and emotional fuckwittery, and in so doing spawned an entire genre of fiction, has returned to our bookshelves – or, rather, to our Kindles, the world having moved on a bit since […]

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  What is it about engagement adverts that make them a festival of douchebaggery? Is it the saccharine tone, the crass assumptions they make about gendered behaviour, or just the shite notion that a woman (and ONLY a woman) needs a big, unethical sparkler on her finger to show she’s not a lonely cunt but […]

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  (Yes, that’s ALL women) When a friend recently shared a link to this article, called ’20 Things All Women Should Do Before Getting Married’ it was with sadness as well as the habitual rage that I shook my fists at the screen and yelled ‘Seriously? Come ON!’ (clue: one of the options isn’t: tell Marissa […]

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  My life got immeasurably better since I started ‘liking’ Cosmopolitan on Facebook, not because I’m a fan of their constant hot-pink omg-bleating internet diarrhea, but because, over the last few weeks, I’ve started to see something both interesting and hilarious happening. Cosmo readers (all fifteen of them, it appears – they really need to […]

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    Now, don’t get me wrong- I’m not one of those chicks who hates on Zooey Deschanel. I’ve actually always really liked Zooey Deschanel- she’s funny, her clothes are nice, she has really pretty hair, and despite all the crap that is thrown her way for playing girly characters (which, I have to point […]

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Saturdaynight. I’m babysitting. I’m also, by chance, engaging in anthropological research regarding the social implications of Miley Cyrus’s very public, orchestrated ‘breakdown’ for a pre-pubescent audience, as her music blasts out of the television.  “What’s happened to Miley Cyrus?!” quoth ten-year-old Amelia. “It’s all the fame,” ten-and-a-fifth-year-old Sophie sighs. “It’s got to her. First Britney, […]

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    When I was 13, I spent my time lust/hate-reading lots of Kerouac (Sal’s kind of a misogynist! But he’s also kind of crushworthy!) and writing ‘poetry’ (thinly veiled autobiographical prose verse about kissing boys at Altrincham ice rink – not *totally* sure this can be classed in the same category as, y’know, Tennyson, […]

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Image: the amazing Biff It’s official: the colder months are upon us; a time otherwise known as the end of the summer shagging season, marked as it is by the sudden need for everyone ever (and that includes YOU, dear reader) to grab the nearest, semi-compatible looker next to them to settle down with for the […]

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  In the latest Thing That Makes You Want To Log Off The Internet And Join A Nomadic Community In The Highlands news, Advertising Week has recently published some research (below) on how The Ad People can ‘identify the right audience’ by pouncing on female consumers when they’re at their most insecure. Of course, we […]

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  Whatup ladybros. I know, ‘rebranding feminism’, what the hell? When Elle got in touch with us to ask us to take part in a challenge, alongside some ad agencies, to bring feminism to a larger audience, we were initially a bit skeptical, mainly because of the use of the word ‘brand’. But then we […]

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    The quality of my daily internet procrastination time has just been shat on by the discovery of Cosmo Latina, which reaches new pits of unintentional hilarity, extreme patronisation and eye-watering levels of facepalm, even by Cosmo’s scraping-out-the-portaloo-cistern standards. Give it a read and you’ll be wallowing up to your chocho* in racismo and […]

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    If you were a fan of clunkers, as I am, you might say that Katy Perry and I have a ‘hot ‘n’ cold’ relationship (sorry). I love her so much – I cried a bit when I saw her film, I had ‘California Gurls’ as my alarm tone until I started to feel […]

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