Archive for December, 2008
Posted by Irresponsibility I feel evil taking Wallace & Gromit to task but why, oh lord, has the nation’s favourite cheese-munching, Oscar scooping claymation double act turned into poster boys for misogyny? More importantly, why did the BBC decide to use its Christmas Day bullypulpit to funnel woman-hating claptrap into the sitting rooms of Great [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility My friend Ruth raised an excellent point when we were out running: why are women’s running shoes pink? Or, failing that, a suitably femme shade of lavender, baby blue or white? Does society so fear the liberating power of female physical activity that it enforces gender stereotyping even in sportwear? Is it [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I am sitting on a stripped bed in a room full of overstuffed duffle bags, suitcases and piles of books, with a hangover, dull with sorting, packing, airline luggage allowances, bills, disposing of half-empty bottles of shampoo. Only a fool would leave Ibiza. So here I am, bags packed. My best friend [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I avoided watching the Sex & The City film because I thought it would depress me. I wasn’t wrong. Mostly I hate the blatant consumerist brainwashing. Our entire culture is obsessed with consumption already. It’s not like we need any encouragement to waste money on pointless material objects. What makes the film [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The residents of Compton, LA are handing in their guns and grenades in exchange for food coupons. This is (I think) meant to be good news. Yet I can’t feel anything but a sadness at reading that: “The annual Gifts for Guns program ended Sunday in Compton [in which] the Los Angeles [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility A Butterfly Award has fluttered lightly into my blog thanks to Left of Bill who has kindly nominated Irresponsibility as one of his favourite blogs. The rules of this blogular distinction request I do the following: link by to my awarder (cheers LOB!) and then choose 10 blogs I love to recommend [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I am not oblivious to the fact that being a radical feminist and rabid James Bond fan is about as congruous as being a Buddhist butcher. Nevertheless, I love Bond movies. Especially since Daniel Craig took over from the oleaginous Pierce Brosnan (even his name sounds like a bad double entendre) and [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility “From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene.” -Mary Wollstonecroft Share It del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Live Spaces MySpace Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Yahoo! My Web
Posted by Irresponsibility I wrote the following thoughts on control versus freedom a couple of weeks ago, not intending to post them. It was a personal meditation. However, listing in the icy wake of a few days in miserable, cold, control-freakish Britain (thou shalt not! thou shalt not!) I’m motivated to share it as it [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Its apologists say pornography doesn’t objectify women. I refer them to the recent Observer Woman article Just another day in the life of a Russian oligarch’s wife… about Russian oligarch Sergey Rodionov and his wife Olga. The feature publicises The Book Of Olga, which features her stripped in a poses described as [...]
Favourite this blog!
Amnesty International
PaperBlog
