So, today when I was mansplained…
… I alternated between frustrated, angry, and amused every couple of seconds. Eventually I settled on ignoring him until he gave up. “Mansplaining“ is an Internet slang term used to […]
… I alternated between frustrated, angry, and amused every couple of seconds. Eventually I settled on ignoring him until he gave up. “Mansplaining“ is an Internet slang term used to […]
I was really shocked the other night when I watched two minutes of “Bigger, Fatter, Gypsier” on Channel 4. I was flicking around stations and was stopped by the horror […]
Via the inimitable cultural snow: the sins of the sons. Grammar aside, is this not a very good question?
Please read this. All of it. Now tell me again how I’m supposed to “avoid” being rape, stop putting myself in danger, stop wearing those rapey sorts of clothes etc. […]
(Trigger warning.) Photo caption: “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tahani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was […]
Yes, I know Osama Bin Laden was killed today or yesterday or overnight but I have a feeling that’s been done to death (pun intended) at this stage. Frankly, I’m […]
Ok, yes, I possibly have been on the Interbets all week. Here’s some of what’s been happening: It’s quite unbelievable, still, that France passed the “Ban on the Burka” law last week, but […]
If only I could spend all day online reading blogs, I would. I can’t, so I can only give you what I see. Recently: David Willets: feminism has held back […]
Where to start. It’s been a busy week in the blogoshere. There’s been a lot to talk about. In no particular order: The iconography of French advertising (theillusionists). This is a discussion of […]
I’m only really posting this because it makes me laugh. Not because I care enormously about it one way or t’other. Peers respond to cash allegations Two of the Labour […]