Boxers don't cry. Women do

By Carrie Dunn | 21 December 2007, 08:22

“I feel like a woman. I can’t stop crying. All that’s missing is a pair of tits.” Ricky Hatton doesn’t seem to be taking his loss to Floyd Mayweather with particularly good grace. He does, however, have some very interesting…

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British girls are ugly and smelly

By Carrie Dunn | 11 December 2007, 08:17

I got to work this morning, opened up my email, and read a message from my boyfriend, entitled: ‘Here’s one to get you going…’ He was right, too. He’d emailed me a link to this story from the Times….

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The Spice Girls have killed feminism

By Carrie Dunn | 5 December 2007, 08:05

I’m struggling here, so if anyone can shed any light on what exactly Fay Weldon’s argument is in this piece from the Daily Mail (of course), I’d welcome their assistance. As far as I can work out, young women…

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Male cheerleaders hit the Premiership

By Carrie Dunn | 3 December 2007, 09:04

It’s one male cheerleader, to be exact, and he’s on the staff at Blackburn Rovers, who are remaining tight-lipped about their trailblazing recruit, but this is the first Daily Mail story that’s surprised me in a good way for…

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New television channel to provide sports news for men

By Carrie Dunn | 26 November 2007, 20:45

When I got this press release earlier, I couldn’t work out what annoyed me more - the poor punctuation, the selfishness of the survey respondents, or the equation of “the nation” with “the nation’s men”. It’s from Setanta Sport,…

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Girls prefer Bob the Builder to Barbie

By Carrie Dunn | 19 November 2007, 15:22

I suspect my own childhood experience of playing with toy cars as well as Barbies may have been out of the ordinary in the 1980s – certainly my younger sister never showed much interest in joining me for a…

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Top female footballers get £40 a day to compete in World Cup

By Carrie Dunn | 18 November 2007, 22:32

If we are serious about tackling the health and fitness crisis and encouraging young women to take part in sport, then our best female athletes should be feted, admired, respected and set up as worthy role models for our daughters….

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Does Strictly Come Dancing play into the myth of catfighting women?

By Carrie Dunn | 15 November 2007, 23:37

I’m not ashamed to admit it – I watch Strictly Come Dancing every week. So devotedly, in fact, that I also blog about it. And before you start mailing in with comments telling me that reality television is rubbish and…

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