Blog posts from August 2008
28 August 2008
Intergenerational Communication
LaToya over at Feministe has written an amazing piece about Alida Brill and stories from the feminist world. She starts with a great and timely reminder… Every now and again, I’ll hear someone make a remark that goes something like… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 28 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Gender Role Research Misrepresented (again - yes I know we shouldn’t be surprised).
First off, hat tip to the readers who flagged this to us, thank you. The Yorkshire Building Society (well know gender activists there) did a survey about customers attitudes to gender roles. Now if you believed the first Telegraph article… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 28 August 2008 | Comments (2)
“Best”, “Worst” and gender divides
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, The Daily Star wrote a guide to British Uni’s. The basis of their comparisons? Gender ratio and beer prices. Not only that but apparently the “best” was represented by the highest female to… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 28 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Why being a fat man is better than being a fat woman and other musings….
Summer brings on all sorts of strange behaviours - like paying money to be suspended upside down at high speeds and whizzed through the air at increasingly scary (or fun!) velocities. I am talking about Theme Parks (obviously). But consider… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 28 August 2008 | Comments (3)
Spotting Sexism - new online workshop
Jess and I are launching Lights On, a project to workshop feminism with those who want to get a bit stuck-in through a series of online discussions and activities. The first workshop is called Spotting Sexism and is for people… Read more...Posted by zohra moosa at 28 August 2008
27 August 2008
Early Thursday round-up!
A 14-year-old girl was raped in a Glasgow bus station, reports the BBC. Abyss2hope has some questions about how the case has been framed: What stands out to me in this case versus other rape cases against teenage girls I’ve… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 27 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Del Martin dies aged 87
LGBT rights activist Del Martin has died, aged 87. Martin and her wife Phyllis Lyon were the first same-sex couple to marry after California’s court ruling around two months ago, cbs5 reported. Martin and Lyon were among the founders of… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 27 August 2008 | Comments (0)
DV services for LBT women: Exeter survey
Adapted from the Women’s Resource Centre enews bulletin: Exeter Women’s Aid is looking to improve services to lesbians, bisexual and transgender women affected by domestic violence and would appreciate your time in filling in a questionnaire they are circulating. You… Read more...Posted by zohra moosa at 27 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Persepolis screening, plus Q&A
For London-based readers, another chance to see Persepolis (which Cazz Blase reviewed earlier this month). F Word reader Suzi sent in the details: SAT 13 Sep, 13.15pm, Hackney & Islington Amnesty Group presents Oscar nominated Persepolis (12A). Artist and novelist… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 27 August 2008 | Comments (0)
26 August 2008
Women’s boxing for 2012 Olympics
The Beijing Olympics may be over, but the fight is continuing to get women’s boxing included in the competition in London in 2012, reports Reuters, via Jezebel. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) will press for the introduction of women’s boxing… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 26 August 2008 | Comments (1)
Woman wearing lesbian tshirt thrown out of US Government building
A woman was forced to leave a government building in California because she was wearing a ‘lesbian.com’ tshirt. Los Angeles Daily News reports that Lapriss Gilbert, 31, was stopped by a security guard when she tried to enter the Social… Read more...Posted by Milly at 26 August 2008 | Comments (6)
‘Girls are chickens?’
Vegetarians, feminists, and feminist vegetarians may wish to look away. Is this a real Heinz ad? Only a few months after pulling their ad for mayonnaise showing two men kissing, they decided to just let go and aim full tilt… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 26 August 2008 | Comments (4)
The right to choose is not enough - Mexico DF
Abortion is now legal in Mexico City, but efforts to make sure all women are able to access their right to choose have run into problems, reports the New York Times. It’s really interesting (and fantastic) that right from the… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 26 August 2008 | Comments (2)
‘Pro-feminist’ blogger gets six months, escapes sex offenders registry
Justice for one female student who was assaulted when she was unconscious? Perhaps. Kyle Payne has been sentenced to six months in prison, for “invasion of privacy”. You’ll remember Payne as the blogger who described himself as a radical feminist,… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 26 August 2008 | Comments (0)
25 August 2008
Oh Jeremy…
Jeremy Paxman, surely one of the most high-profile TV journalists in the country, thinks that “the worst thing you can be in this industry is a middle class white male”, reports the BBC (via Anji). “If any middle class white… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 25 August 2008 | Comments (18)
Jessica Hoffman’s challenge on capitalism and feminism
Jess Hoffman wrote an interesting post at Feministe on “Toward a Liberationist Feminism (Or, I Hope Pro-Capitalist Feminism Is an Oxymoron)”. Hoffman, of Make/Shift magazine and other interesting projects, says: What does feminism, or sexism, mean in a vacuum? And… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 25 August 2008 | Comments (13)
24 August 2008
New feature: Million Women Rise - Reflections
Around 5,000 women gathered from across the UK and marched through central London. Although they received no mainstream media attention, the march and rally have since become the subject of much discussion. Louise Livesey talks to some of the people… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 24 August 2008
Next Reclaim the Night Edinburgh set for March 2009
Readers in Scotland, this is one for your 2009 diary. Another Reclaim the Night Edinburgh is scheduled, probably for March next year, possibly on International Women’s Day. From the message on the RTN Edinburgh blog, it looks like the march… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 24 August 2008 | Comments (1)
23 August 2008
Coming up at The Women’s Library in London… Exhibitions/Events for Autumn/Winter 2008/2009
There’s some really interesting exhibitions and events coming up at The Women’s Library in London in the next few months. Between The Covers: Women’s Magazines and their Readers is an exhibition that begins on the 1st November, and has a… Read more...Posted by Barbara Felix at 23 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Beauty at the Olympics
I seem to be burning my bridges with lots of my sources of work over the course of the Olympics, but this made me so angry I can’t help but post about it. The Times’s Chief Sports Photographer Marc Aspland… Read more...Posted by Carrie Dunn at 23 August 2008 | Comments (25)
22 August 2008
Call out for submissions for zine about Fashion and Gender
A friend of mine is looking for contributions for a zine she’s doing on connections of Fashion and Gender identity - I’ll let her explain…. I’ve mentioned to some of you my wish to put on a zine about the… Read more...Posted by Barbara Felix at 22 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Silence please
I read the report, Many support ex-principal in gay rights case (link here) in the NWF Daily News with an increasing sense of incredulity and outrage. It raises so many questions, but it seems that the judge’s view is that… Read more...Posted by Helen G at 22 August 2008 | Comments (5)
21 August 2008
Shorts
1. In the Guardian today, I fear Jessica Valenti rather underestimates just how bad the ‘mainstream feminist’ response to the ‘Obama situation’ really is. Not only is there less commentary/action on the sexism that Michelle Obama faces compared to… Read more...Posted by zohra moosa at 21 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Modelling and crash-dieting: what could possibly go wrong?
MTV are chasing after the TV modelling bandwagon with a show that ‘dares to go where no modelling show has gone before’. Where might that be then? Empowering women to measure success with something other than beauty? Not quite… Model… Read more...Posted by Milly at 21 August 2008 | Comments (7)
Thursday mid-afternoon round-up
The latest Carnival of Feminists is out now at Mind of Genevieve. This one includes some great posts, including Kate Smurthwaite’s about the origins of her name: I personally like the word “cunt” as I have expounded at length on… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 21 August 2008 | Comments (5)
Is that bell hooks on your shirt?
KMstitchery’s Etsy store has hoodies, t-shirts, dresses and skirts galore featuring women such as bell hooks, Angela Davis and Emma Goldman. Wearing the image of people who help form your politics literally on your t-shirt has a mixed history to… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 21 August 2008 | Comments (2)
New feature: In the name of the father…
For many women, getting married still means changing their name. Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams has an alternate proposal Very recently I was married. It was 10 years in the making, and still I did it with some trepidation - not because… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 21 August 2008
20 August 2008
Ladyfest Manchester 2008 website
Just a quick post to tell you about the new Ladyfest Manchester site, which has some tantalising details of the bill already listed…… Read more...Posted by Barbara Felix at 20 August 2008 | Comments (0)
‘Where is feminism now?’ zine calling for submissions
I’m not sure I ‘get’ the title of this conference at the University of Aberdeen: Ending International Feminist Futures? I know it’s an academic event, but still - or perhaps I’m being a bit dense?! However, the conference itself looks… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 20 August 2008 | Comments (0)
Naughty little pills
According to collaborative research carried out by the University of Liverpool and the University of Newcastle, the contraceptive pill can have a detrimental affect on a woman’s choice of a prospective partner. Scientists asked a sample of women to smell… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 20 August 2008 | Comments (13)
19 August 2008
New feature: Sisters! Some of us are mothers, too!
Mothers’ issues are feminist issues, argues Ruth Moss Some mothers feel alienated by what they see as “feminism”. They feel that feminism is right in there fighting their corner, until they decide to give birth and raise a child. They… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 19 August 2008
New feature: Why my son wears pink
At two year’s old, Penni F’s son happily enthuses over both fairies and trucks. But, she worries, what happens when pressure to be a ‘real man’ kicks in? I have a toddler, a two-year-old boy. Like ‘most boys’, he likes… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 19 August 2008
Open the gate, and let the “uglies” come flooding in…
If you’re ugly, you’re obviously desperate. And if you’re a woman it’s likely you could be categorised as ugly at any moment, regardless of what you’re critic looks like himself, or if he even knows you, because you are public… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 19 August 2008 | Comments (4)
Men who want to get you pregnant
If a woman doesn’t hatch a sprog by the time she reaches 35 her ovaries begin to vibrate. What, didn’t you know? They start purring like a pair of pagers belonging to doctors working on call on the very same… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 19 August 2008 | Comments (46)
Women unpopular among Tories?
Tory supporters are rebelling against David Cameron’s efforts to promote women, according to Anne Perkins in Comment is Free: The Tory ginger group website, Conservative Home, runs regular popularity polls for the shadow cabinet. This month, Spelman is at the… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 19 August 2008 | Comments (4)
18 August 2008
Games vs Girls - I don’t have the words
Games Radar begins its feature on “Games vs Girls: Which is better?” with the breathtaking revelation that “by far most GR readers are guys”. Probably need to tone down the lashings of sexist bullshit before attracting any female readers, “guys”…. Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 18 August 2008 | Comments (34)
Chikipedia
Chikipedia.com is like Wikipedia, except with chicks, right? Charlotte Cooper has more in this guest post Ever feel the fire has gone out of your feminism? Tired of having to explain why something might be offensive to women? Maybe you… Read more...Posted by Guest Blogger at 18 August 2008 | Comments (10)
Women in film event, Bristol
If you’re in the Bristol area, this event at the Watershed Media Centre, 7pm, 28 August, looks great: Of 2007’s top grossing 250 films, only 6.25% were directed by women. This, and the reports that only 12% of the film… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 18 August 2008 | Comments (0)
17 August 2008
Rape & the police & juries & drink
Lest we get too excited that a rapist ended up behind bars, consider the sobering news of an apparent drop in the number of rapes being reported to the police, and Neanderthal attitudes to women drinking among senior police officers… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 17 August 2008 | Comments (35)
16 August 2008
Woman gets voice, woman loses voice
In a silent movie, obviously, no-one can talk. So what happens if one woman finds her voice? That’s the premise of Silent, a film which has the potential to examine some interesting ideas about attitudes to women who speak out,… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 16 August 2008 | Comments (1)
Kellie Telesford
Kellie Telesford, a 39 year old black woman, lived in south London where she worked as a florist and beautician. Her body was found by police officers (who had been alerted by her friends, worried because they could not contact… Read more...Posted by Helen G at 16 August 2008 | Comments (37)
15 August 2008
Justice is sometimes done, after all
Readers will be familiar with the UK’s shocking 5% conviction rate for rape. Or, to put it another way, considering the high percentages of rapes that go unreported, the average rapist in this country faces only a 1% likelihood of… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 15 August 2008 | Comments (3)
Parenting & biology - the stepfathers edition
Research out of the US indicates that in so-called “fragile” families, mothers actually rate step-fathers’ parenting abilities as about equal to/better than biological fathers, as reported in The News & Observer. Mothers reported that stepfathers were more engaged, more cooperative… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 15 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Is there such a thing as feminist theatre?
Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to write an essay about it (though I might get my third years to do so next semester), but I’ve seen two very contrasting plays this week with lots of meat for… Read more...Posted by Carrie Dunn at 15 August 2008 | Comments (3)
14 August 2008
More on teaching feminism to girls
Further to this (Jessica Ringrose and teaching feminism to girls), Joan Smith has written an excellent column over at The Times. Looking back, I’m amazed at how much we achieved - many feminist ideas, such as the right to maternity… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 14 August 2008 | Comments (10)
Angelina Jolie replaces Tom Cruise in spy thriller
Angelina Jolie has replaced Tom Cruise as the star of new spy film Edwin A Salt. According to BBC Online, Tom Cruise had a long-standing connection to Edwin A Salt. After his departure, several other male actors expressed interest in… Read more...Posted by Milly at 14 August 2008 | Comments (11)
WTF?
Orangina - “naturally juicy” like pole dancing, porn and anthropomorphising animals to be “sex” objects…. Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 14 August 2008 | Comments (30)
Ginger
Regular commenter Redheadinred sent in this link about the “myths and history of red hair”: Throughout history there have been many strange beliefs and ideas about red hair. In ancient Egypt red haired animals and people were associated with the… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 14 August 2008 | Comments (27)
IOC/You Tube censor Tibet protest footage
Following IOC demands, You Tube have pulled a clip showing footage of a Free Tibet protest because …. it contained imagery including the five-rings Olympic logo, and therefore was an infringement of copyright. So much for the goal of the… Read more...Posted by Lynne Miles at 14 August 2008 | Comments (9)
13 August 2008
Eleanor Coppola
The Coppolas are a talented, powerful bunch. Admittedly I’ve not exactly been keeping close track, but in all the fuss about the film-making family, I don’t remember hearing a word about Eleanor Coppola, married to Francis Ford. The Independent ran… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 13 August 2008 | Comments (5)
Walk through the night - this weekend
If you’re in London this weekend, you may want to take part in a sponsored evening walk to raise money for the excellent charity Eaves. Walk the Night London starts at 11pm on Saturday, and finishes at sunrise. From the… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 13 August 2008 | Comments (0)
New feature: What Not To Wear say to your co-worker
How would you feel if you found out the people around you chat about putting you forward for How to Look Good Naked? Kelly Draper knows all too well “Miss, you know that show with two women?” This is not…
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Posted by Jess McCabe at 13 August 2008
Another imprisonment case….
This time in the US, Raymond Daniel Thurmond held his wife and four children in a single width trailer home since 2005 and didn’t allow them out. They lived off junk food and only one of the children, now aged… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 13 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Workshop on “queer, feminist & trans politics of prison abolition”
Just a quick note to highlight an interesting-sounding workshop in London this weekend. (Please get in touch if you are organising/hear of events anywhere in the UK that we should be highlighting): THE QUEER, FEMINIST & TRANS POLITICS OF PRISON… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 13 August 2008
New review: ‘Freedom always has a price’
Cazz Blase considers how Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical story of coming-of-age in Iran and Europe transfers to the big screen I first saw the film Persepolis in May at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, in French with English subtitles, and in high… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 13 August 2008
12 August 2008
Women of Colour and Beauty Carnival
The Women of Colour and Beauty Carnival is up now, over at yennenga. Some highlights: The difference between “pretty” and “beautiful” at Having Read The Fine Print: You see in my life as WOC , pretty has had fuck all… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 12 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Rape Compensation Cut Overturned
A decision by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) to cut the compensation awarded to a woman who was raped after a night out has been overturned. Unbelievably, she had been told in writing that the reason for the reduction… Read more...Posted by Holly Combe at 12 August 2008 | Comments (13)
London Mayor Boris Johnson cuts Soho Pride funding
London Mayor Boris Johnson has slashed £10,000 from Soho Pride, just over a week before the event is due to take place. Soho Pride is a smaller gay pride event in London that is based around the gay bars in… Read more...Posted by Milly at 12 August 2008 | Comments (8)
F Word blog review - have your say
This weekend a few of the bloggers met up to talk about the direction of this blog, and The F-Word as a whole. We want to give readers a chance to feed into this process, too. What are we doing… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 12 August 2008
New football magazine to launch. It’s for men, obviously
As you may know, in real life I’m a journalist and cover a variety of subjects, mostly sport and media, so I was intrigued to find out that Golf Punk are launching a new football magazine. But wait! Who is… Read more...Posted by Carrie Dunn at 12 August 2008 | Comments (12)
Somehow I’m not hungry anymore
Cake Wrecks is a blog which records “when professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong”. Some of the examples - well what to say: The bound foot cake (“Yes, it was for a podiatrist.”) Edible brides and headless pregnant torsos Says… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 12 August 2008 | Comments (9)
11 August 2008
Women in London: Questionnaire
I originally posted on this subject a few weeks ago, and firstly I would like to once again thank all the women who responded and completed the questionnaire for me. I am very very grateful! I met with the team… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 11 August 2008
Citigroup fires vice-president who runs sexist, racist, homophobic blog
A vice president at Citigroup has been fired, after the bank realised he was blogging as “Large”, of the hideous blog Take A Report, according to Shanghai Daily. The newspaper presents the story as “blogger fired, even though money raised… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 11 August 2008 | Comments (0)
On race and beauty
In this really moving exploration of why she is so hurt and angry at her (black, male) best friend’s insistence on dating white girls, Latoya Peterson at Racialicious, talks about how black women experience beauty standards differently than white women:… Read more...Posted by Lynne Miles at 11 August 2008 | Comments (1)
Virtual Loving
No, I’m neither talking about filthy cyber sex sessions, nor the development of an unnatural attachment to a joystick, but rather a new software package that promises you an Instant Internet Boyfriend on your Computer! Yes, who’d have thought it,… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 11 August 2008 | Comments (8)
Some more in the news stories
The TUC have (maybe worthwhile-ly) managed to state the bleeding obvious - migrant women are most likely to be paid less than the national minimum wage The research found: “worrying” trends including long working hours, insecure jobs and poor pay…. Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 11 August 2008 | Comments (1)
The Olympics
OK so I’m not a sports fan but I just wanted to note - as no-one else seems to have so far - that the UK’s first two medals were both won by women. Nicole Cooke in the Cycling Road… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 11 August 2008 | Comments (10)
10 August 2008
A personal tale of bbqs and gender roles
My girlfriend’s childhood friend was 30 a few weeks ago. The birthday boy hired a cottage in the middle of the countryside, and we all had a lovely weekend of sunshine and intense gender role reinforcement. The men decided when… Read more...Posted by Milly at 10 August 2008 | Comments (25)
News round-up
And whilst we’re on confusions (see my last entry) I Blame the Patriarchy has a good example from Seattle news which confuses the idea of “prostitution” and the idea of kidnapping and forcing into sexual slavery. This news bulletin is… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 10 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Confusion over feminism….?
The Daily Mail seems to have excelled itself in confusion this week. First was Anna Pasternak’s pity-party article about how she thinks responding to life’s events quite well has left her single (her argument seems to be because she didn’t… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 10 August 2008 | Comments (30)
8 August 2008
In better news
Apparently the Home Office is going to ban two chemicals which can be combined to create the date-rape drug GHB. Gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4 butanediol when swallowed together they turn into GHB and are used in some solvents and cleaning products…. Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 8 August 2008 | Comments (5)
Can someone explain to me….
why the Guardian is giving this misogynistic killer airtime? Guardian reporter Tom Phillips has interviewed the man accused of killing Cara Burke. Warning *DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS* if you are likely to get upset at unapologetically misogynistic self pity…. Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 8 August 2008 | Comments (14)
6 August 2008
Get active
Irrespective of the topic I would encourage people to take this piece at Feministe to heart. Remember: the personal is political. The more we speak up about our experiences, the more people we find who have gone through the same… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 6 August 2008 | Comments (18)
Clothes for white, teenage colonisers!
Via AdsoftheWorld… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 6 August 2008 | Comments (21)
5 August 2008
Gender stereotypes…
Via Feminist Philosophers - like jj, I’m not completely convinced that this successfully punctures gender stereotypes - as the last few frames suggest is the intention. I think it might rely overmuch on the idea that stereotypes are obviously… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 5 August 2008 | Comments (6)
In which a cis feminist has a serious and long overdue rethink.
I want to address some issues raised in Helen’s latest post, issues that I myself have been grappling with recently. The ongoing results* of said grappling have made me feel very ashamed of my past thoughts and misplaced beliefs with… Read more...Posted by Laura Woodhouse at 5 August 2008 | Comments (42)
Some news stories…
I couldn’t decide between “some news stories you might have missed” and “some news stories to make you blood boil” so settled on “some news stories…” and you can complete as you wish. Gold stars for the best endings… Read more...Posted by Louise Livesey at 5 August 2008 | Comments (2)
Like Guitar Hero? Well you’ll just love Vagina Hero! Or not.
Dude, you know what would be, like, awesome? If there was a Guitar Hero for girls! No, not a more girl-friendly game featuring Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill or Hole, I’m talking about a game where instead of controlling a guitar, you’re… Read more...Posted by Milly at 5 August 2008 | Comments (20)
4 August 2008
First Women of Colour & Beauty Carnival kicks off…
Soaring is launching a blog carnival dedicated to women of colour & beauty: Submissions from women and men of color are welcome, focusing on these areas: What does beauty mean to women of color? What is the difference between beauty… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 4 August 2008 | Comments (6)
3 August 2008
Sunday round-up
DeBeers has created a hideously offensive line of necklaces shaped like tribal masks. As What Tami Said points out, given the history and current practices of this company, this is beyond tasteless, it’s fucked up. Is Shirley by Charlotte Bronte… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 3 August 2008 | Comments (29)
An open letter to cis feminists
In my opinion, every non-trans person who calls hirself a feminist should click over to the blog Sexual Ambiguities and read this post and its comments: An open letter to cis feminists The article has been reposted in full at… Read more...Posted by Helen G at 3 August 2008 | Comments (62)
Kyle Payne: how not to support women, part deux
Remember Kyle Payne, the self proclaimed male feminist, anti-pornography and anti-violence activist who admitted to exposing and filming a female student without her consent? Well he’s now released a statement in which he piles up excuse after excuse for his… Read more...Posted by Laura Woodhouse at 3 August 2008 | Comments (18)
Times publishes misogynist tract
Some quotes from Kathleen Parker’s book, extracted for today’s Sunday Times: While women have been cast as victims, martyrs, mystics or saints, men have quietly retreated into their caves, the better to muffle emotions that fluctuate between hilarity (are these… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 3 August 2008 | Comments (15)
Dame Eileen
Oh how the Press love it when any reasonably high-profile woman rips into feminism and other women in general. The latest culprit is Dame Eileen Atkins, an actor who, incidentally, is performing in The Female of the Species (yes, the… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 3 August 2008 | Comments (6)
2 August 2008
Totally unbelievable!
Calum Best, son of footballer George Best and alleged serial shagger, has completed a TV series for MTV called Totally Calum Best in which he has pledged to abstain from sex for fifty days. The show first aired on 27th… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 2 August 2008 | Comments (7)
Slating the singles. Again…
Firstly, I realise the irony in this statement, but whenever a female journalist/columnist has a deadline to meet it seems lack of originality and laziness forces them to take recourse to the same old tired topics that have been chewed… Read more...Posted by Abby O'Reilly at 2 August 2008 | Comments (17)
Daily Mail blatently misrepresents single mums
“One in five CSA mothers name the wrong father,” screams the headline for this story about the paternity testing by the Child Support Agency. A shocking statistic? But one which is a total lie, contradicted only three paragraphs into… Read more...Posted by Jess McCabe at 2 August 2008 | Comments (20)
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