Blog posts by Samara Ginsberg: 2008
Having your cake and eating it
By Samara Ginsberg | 28 May 2008, 13:39
EDIT: Believe it or not, I was a fully-fledged anorexic by the age of 12, so it’s not as if I’m a stranger to eating disorders! I had an utterly horrific childhood, which I won’t go into here, but let’s…
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Summer is finally here!
By Samara Ginsberg | 7 May 2008, 14:02
The sun is out, the birds are singing and London seems a much happier place. For the benefit of our international readers, Britain is currently enjoying a break from the positively crapulent weather we’ve been having lately. The sun is…
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Fergie’s daughter inherits her “imperfect figure”
By Samara Ginsberg | 30 April 2008, 09:31
The Daily Mail is running a truly revolting article today. I mean, seriously. They have actually surpassed themselves on the We-Hate-Women’s-Bodies front. Sarah “Duchess of Pork” Ferguson’s daughter Beatrice has gone on holiday, had the temerity to wear a bikini…
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Can men be feminists?
By Samara Ginsberg | 24 April 2008, 09:42
Cath Elliott is pondering this question on Comment Is Free today. Can men ever really be feminists, or should pro-feminist men be consigned to the sidelines, welcome allies in the struggle for gender equality, but disqualified from full membership by…
Lithuania considers abortion ban
By Samara Ginsberg | 21 April 2008, 09:14
Apparently, Lithuania is considering a ban on abortion. This has been pretty much covered at Feministing so I’m not going to say too much about it here. How utterly depressing. There are three countries in the EU that have a…
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Is it possible to be a feminist and still like “Sex and the City”?
By Samara Ginsberg | 16 April 2008, 09:25
Alice Wignall ponders this question in The Guardian today. For a show about women, it displays a singular obsession with men. As Miranda, the character most likely to consider herself a feminist, points out in one episode: “How does it…
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Daily Mail attacks “curvy” Miss England finalist
By Samara Ginsberg | 11 April 2008, 15:57
You may have noticed that the Daily Mail seems to have developed a bit of an obsession recently with Miss England’s first ever size 16 finalist. Chloe Marshall has been praised in lavishly patronising drivel full of godawful cliches about…
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Brunettes have more fun!
By Samara Ginsberg | 8 April 2008, 09:37
Your ball-busting brunette blogger read the above headline on The Times website this morning with a mixture of delight, amusement, scepticism, and visions of proudly linking it from her facebook profile. When I clicked through to the article though I…
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More on shoes
By Samara Ginsberg | 1 April 2008, 09:32
Jess’ post yesterday got me thinking, or rather, inspired me to actually blog about something to which I’ve always given a lot of thought. A couple of years ago I was on a quick lunchtime shoe shopping binge with a…
Quote of the day
By Samara Ginsberg | 27 March 2008, 17:21
A while ago, after writing a column about feminism, I received an e-mail from a reader who said: “I think it’s great that you, as a man, write about these issues. But imagine a situation where you were exactly the…
French women don’t get fat
By Samara Ginsberg | 25 March 2008, 16:18
Zoe Williams has a hilarious and perceptive opinion piece in The Guardian today, exploring the publishing phenomenon based on cultural stereotypes that would have us think that French women are beautiful, elegant creatures entirely unlike our lardy selves. French women…
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A man can rent someone “better” than you
By Samara Ginsberg | 19 March 2008, 13:50
There’s a totally gross article by Minette Marrin in The Times this week about the world’s oldest profession. Minette Marrin is not my favourite journalist in the world for reasons completely unrelated to feminism: a few years ago she wrote…
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Mind-bendingly godawful picture of the day
By Samara Ginsberg | 7 March 2008, 14:04
Well, I’m a bare stem, as are the majority of our readers I would guess. Oh woe is me, I so regret losing my beautiful petals - NOT! Seriously, this is vile. And blatantly, blatantly sexist. Trying to give…
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More on male violence against women
By Samara Ginsberg | 28 February 2008, 09:24
Joan Smith has written an opinion piece for The Independent about the recent spate of high-profile sexually-motivated murder cases perpetrated by men against women. For the benefit of anyone who’s been on another planet recently, Levi Bellfield was convicted on…
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I heart this cartoon
By Samara Ginsberg | 18 February 2008, 21:54
That is all….
“Sterilise all teenage girls” says Fay Weldon
By Samara Ginsberg | 15 February 2008, 19:22
Fay Weldon has written a pretty outrageous piece for the Daily Mail in which she suggests that all girls between the ages of 12 and 17 should be forcibly sterilised. Yep, you read that right. Enforced sterilisation. I have to…
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Women of color have brains!
By Samara Ginsberg | 28 January 2008, 09:31
Remember that whole business of black women having to choose between their race or their gender? CNN readers have been up in arms about it too: An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: “Duh, I’m a black woman and here I…
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Get your free clitoridectomy here!
By Samara Ginsberg | 22 January 2008, 13:24
This article from the New York Times also put me right off my breakfast this morning. It’s a report from a centre in Indonesia that offers free female circumcisions. That’s right girls, get your free clitoridectomy here! Sponsored by the…
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In praise of pants
By Samara Ginsberg | 22 January 2008, 10:01
Whoever knew that men’s underpants were so important? I certainly didn’t until I read this highly entertaining article in The Independent this morning. Apparently, for the first time in ages, women aren’t purchasing the majority of men’s pants (hooray!) and…
Oprah is "a traitor"
By Samara Ginsberg | 21 January 2008, 14:22
Apparently Oprah Winfrey is in trouble with her female fan base for backing Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton, The Times reports. Oprah has been very publicly backing Obama by accompanying him on a tour of Iowa, New Hampshire and…
Random Acts of Feminism
By Samara Ginsberg | 18 January 2008, 11:52
Head over to the Guardian today for a fab article by Wendy Roby about how we can improve the state of the world with “Random Acts of Feminism” (Roby’s capitalisation!) A subversion of Professor Chuck Wall’s schmaltzy but ultimately rather…
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Rapists to be snared by text messages
By Samara Ginsberg | 14 January 2008, 13:44
The police have unveiled plans today to experiment with gathering evidence for rape trials by encouraging suspects to incriminate themselves with texts and phone calls to the victims. “Police get the victim to send a text saying something like ‘how…
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Seduced
By Samara Ginsberg | 11 January 2008, 12:38
Last night I went to see the Seduced exhibition at the Barbican. This has been on for months and I expect that many of our London-based readers will have seen it already. The idea behind the exhibition is that it…
Get Skinny!
By Samara Ginsberg | 9 January 2008, 09:38
It’s that time of year again! If you’re a walking stereotype you’ll have stuffed yourself silly over the festive season and gone up to - gasp! - a size 12. ‘Tis the season to nibble Ryvita, squeeze yourself into a…
Just when you thought I was gone forever…
By Samara Ginsberg | 4 January 2008, 21:42
The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed a distinct lack of posts from me recently. This is not because I have seen the light and decided to abandon my stint at The F-Word for a career as a glamour…
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