Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
We have choices. We can stop reading self-hatred manuals posing as women’s magazines. We can stop counting calories. We can stop waiting until we are richer, thinner, or prettier to love ourselves. We can stop having bad relationships. We can stop letting other people take the credit.
High on my list of favourite feminist books is Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Clear, succinct and utterly even-handed, the book – published in 1792 – was a good two centuries ahead of its time. I knew very little about Wollstonecraft, however, until I happened on the news that a charity [...]
If you’re too lazy to do your own thinking, someone will do it for you. – Raina Casarez, MindBody Fitness
We’re rolling down a Pyrenees mountain road, the green flanks of the four wheel drive skimming past matching trees and mossy stones when John says: “Feminists should know that the best way to get their message across is to say it with laughter.” A fortnight ago this would have sent my Germaine-Greer-quoting, Gloria-Steinem-loving, proudly old-school [...]
I’m a little late to the Thylane Blondeau shock/horror party. Apologies. But now I’ve arrived, here’s my take. I don’t find the French Vogue photos of the 10-year-old model particularly outré. (Also, American media should back the fuck off until they get their Tantrums and Tiaras lovin’ house in order, but that’s another blog). People [...]
To paraphrase George Dubya: misogynists never stop thinking of ways to harm women, and neither does America. The latest joyous news from the motherland (a term I use advisedly) is that troubled women are being prosecuted for murder after suffering miscarriages or still-births. This is more than insane. It’s baffling. Despite the pro-life palaver America [...]
Follow up to Objectifiable Me. Support the good work of the UK Anti-Street Harassment Campaign (ASH). About the UK A.S.H. Campaign Beginning life as the London Anti Street Harassment Campaign, ASH is a collective of UK volunteers who have all experienced street harassment. Whether it’s on our way to work, school, to the supermarket or [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Stephen Fry is clever, so it’s hard to ignore it when he says something forehead-slappingly stupid like “I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man.” Fry has about [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility ‘Girls Prevail in New York City Programs for Gifted’ trumpets a recent New York Times headline. The feature highlights a gender imbalance in education, reporting: “Around the city, the current crop of gifted kindergartners… is 56 percent girls, and in the 2008-9 year, 55 percent were girls.” The article further notes that [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The effect of living backwards, the White Queen tells Alice, is, “it always makes one a little giddy at first.” Or, in my case, enraged. Given the backwardness I encountered first thing this morning was a clip from “The View” – a sort of American “Loose Women” – in which host Whoopi [...]
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