It would be misleading of me to start this entry with anything other than the following confession: I am a feminist and I have an engagement ring. I love my engagement ring. Sometimes, at work, I pretend to be deep in thought, appearing to stare at my keyboard, when actually I’m considering how the diamond ...
Apparently it’s not done for women to wear their engagement rings to interviews. Personally I think it’s a good policy for women of a certain age to leave their wedding bands at home, because the assumption will either be that you already have kids or that you’ll get hired and then immediately run off and ...
Spiderman saves Mary Jane from free-falling to her death, Superman goes to great lengths to protect Lois Lane and, in Titanic, Jack apparently saves Rose “in every way that a person can be saved.” That’s all good and glorious, but our beloved cinematic saviours are far from real-life heroes. So it’s about time we acknowledge ...
Men don’t understand women. Women train their boyfriends to behave the way they want. It’s all a bit nuts, if you ask me. One men’s magazine has said that women have brainwashed men into behaving certain ways and doing things for them. What do we think about this? Read on.
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Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
