May 18, 2012
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a lot, I’ve never been the focus of airport security attention, even though I always forget to take my lighter, tweezers or (on a recent flight) 250g jar of jam out of my handbag before entering the ...
May 11, 2012
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of an average-sized woman. So things should basically fit into my hands, especially the things I need to do my work on an average day. Like my laptop bag. My longest finger (the middle one, I’m not ...
Tags: business women,
commuting,
feminism,
fuming feminist,
lady hands,
laptop,
laptop bag,
man hands,
pink,
sparkles,
wage gap,
women at work
May 4, 2012
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the place apart from the peculiar choice of Duran Duran as background music. I weighed my apples, ground my coffee, selected my shampoo and reached for the tampons…and reached…and reached… Tampons on high shelves. TAMPONS ON HIGH ...
April 27, 2012
Bloody Facebook. I knew there was a reason I became a reluctant convert. It’s all very well having hilarious banter with my actual friends, who are an international crowd, but there’s the well-documented difficulty of “people from the past.” I don’t mean a dark, shady past like everyone on Days of our Lives reveals just ...
Tags: Facebook,
feminism,
independent women,
marital status,
marriage,
old friends,
privacy,
single,
singleton,
the fuming feminist,
women's value
April 20, 2012
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d escaped from the office to the organic bakery across the street, and found an outdoor table where I could read my book and drink the peppermint tea I’ve taken to drinking instead of coffee, to avoid ...
April 13, 2012
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who (I once spent a weekend with) (and) happened to be in the wrong email conversation at the wrong time, was being a bit flippant about the thing that was upsetting me. Let me give you some ...
April 6, 2012
Thanks to Margo Hannah for letting us repost this great article! After years of inhabiting a female body, I believe I’m entitled to a partial opinion on how it operates. One thing I’d like to bring up is the hormonal excuse we drag out to exempt ourselves from owning erratic behaviour. As far as I’m ...
Tags: bad behaviour,
blaming your hormones,
excuses,
feminism,
hormones,
menstruation,
period,
PMS,
sexism,
taking responsibility,
the fuming feminist
March 30, 2012
We all know that toy advertisements use a lot of gender stereotypes in their commercials. Girls get Barbies, clothes, makeup and rainbows. Boys get guns, war, action and loud noises. This is nothing new. But this website is new. A new site lets you “mash up” boys’ and girls’ toy commercials so that you can ...
Tags: adverising,
blue,
boys,
children,
femininity,
fuming feminist,
gender,
girls,
marketing,
masculinity,
pink,
sexism,
television,
toys
March 23, 2012
There aren’t many gender-exclusive spaces left in our terribly enlightened society. Who needs them? Men’s clubs filled with (I guess) leather chairs, pipe smoke and oil paintings of hunting dogs have probably been fumigated and converted to pizza chains, while late-morning mothers’ groups have a healthy minority of full-time fathers. Only restrooms are gender-segregated, and ...
March 16, 2012
Since my friend had her first baby, she’s had her tits out all over town. Most folk have just ignored them, since they generally have an infant attached. She’s not pole dancing with sequinned tassles whacking people in the face or anything like that. Breastfeeding isn’t LIKE that. She didn’t make a decision to actively ...