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Ring-A-Ding-Ding: Are Engagement Rings Sexist?

Ring-A-Ding-Ding: Are Engagement Rings Sexist?

January 30, 2012 8 Comments

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 ...

Leave My Bloody Diamond Alone

Leave My Bloody Diamond Alone

January 20, 2012 No Comments

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 ...

My Hero, The Garbage Picker

My Hero, The Garbage Picker

November 15, 2011 No Comments

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 ...

Have Women Brainwashed Men?

August 12, 2010 1 Comment

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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