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Posted in Anti-heroes, Anti-Heroines, Body image, Education, Feminism, Ireland, LGBTQ Issues, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it must be difficult to make one and not feel you are missing [...]
Posted in Body image, Religion, Society, Sport, Technology on Jul 27th, 2011
Being something of a weight lifting fanatic myself, it was with genuine consternation and confusion that I read the following article about a 35-year-old woman who wishes to compete in weight lifting competitions. Kulsoom is Muslim, and as such unwilling to bare her arms or legs. She is now pressing for a change to the [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Celebrity, Feminism, Film, Humour, Women on Jul 13th, 2011
Perhaps you took notice of The Daily Mail’s report on a poll conducted among 2,000 women over 40, which found that ladies felt invisible once they turned 46. Their opinions no longer mattered once men stopped paying attention. Nevermind the idea that visibility and holding opinions remain hinged upon such a fickle conditional as one’s [...]
Posted in Body image, Personal, Women on Jul 12th, 2011
At my cousin’s 18th birthday party last Saturday there was a show of hands to vote on whether or not she should give up using fake tan. She’s an exquisite creature, teetering on the brink of self confidence. She’s funny and self-aware and pretty with the kind of figure 18-year-old girls dream of without realising [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Politics on Jul 11th, 2011
You know what I love most about uniforms? The way they instantly bolster a person’s moral and ethical capacities. The way they make professionals out of pigs. The way they elevate us above the dribbling masses. Think about all of the fabulous uniformed brigades of awesome paragons we’ve had down through the years. Fascists, for [...]
Posted in Body image, Feminism, International, Politics, Sex, Women on Jul 8th, 2011
I was visiting friends a few weeks ago, and it turned out that I’d be there for the Manchester Slutwalk. They were going, with some other people, so I decided to join them. (I even made a placard). If you’ve had your feminist-news antennae switched on lately, you probably know what Slutwalk is (Wikipedia article [...]
Posted in Body image, Celebrity, Feminism, Humour, Men, Personal, Relationships, Television, Women on Jul 1st, 2011
Try to imagine a media feature about a woman choosing to gain 50 pounds without an alarmist frame ,one unaccompanied by quotes from health care practitioners, pie charts, pearl clutching, all of which fail to conclude that the lady in question has lost the plot altogether. Also imagine that said married lady’s husband is not [...]
Posted in Art, Body image, Men, Television, Women on Jun 23rd, 2011
This is normally the time of year when Mad Men would be back (thank you, gift-horse mouth-inspectors over at AMC, whose depressingly short-sighted requests have held up negotiations and pushed the show back by almost a year). I was missing it over the weekend and so I was trawling through a blog called Mad Men [...]
Posted in Advertising, Body image, Women on Jun 20th, 2011
Oh dear. Here we go again. If you haven’t yet laid eyes on the latest ad for Club Orange, the product of a brainstorm which presumably went something like “huh huh boobies” then you’re in for an anti-treat. Eyeroll at the ready. The immediate comparison is with the Hunky Dory fiasco from a while back, [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Humour, Personal, Women on Jun 9th, 2011
(I just don’t have Geoffrey Rush to make me feel good about it.) As a spring chicken in a world of processed poultry and battery farming, by now I’m rather used to feeling woefully inadequate. I’m not thin enough, my hair isn’t luxuriant enough, my car isn’t flashy enough, my bacteria aren’t friendly enough. I [...]
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