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Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Humour, News, Personal, Women on Oct 25th, 2011
Like many women, on an average day – in other words, pretty much every day – I don’t bother wearing make-up. I turn up for work with my blemishes unconcealed, my cheekbones uncontoured and my eyelashes unlengthened. I do the school runs and the supermarket slogs with unglossy lips and without any light reflecting off [...]
Posted in Humour, Music, Parenting, Personal on Sep 26th, 2011
Last week was the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, which I mostly celebrated by not feeling a need to wear all my dad’s clothes at once or thrash around my bedroom in a hormonal rage. I did listen to it, though, just to see what it sounds like now. The lyrics seem a little confusing, [...]
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, 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 [...]
The tragically paywalled Caitlin Moran, columnist and critic for The Times, has written a book called How to Be a Woman, which you also have to pay for – I know! – but which you absolutely should. The title is a little misleading, as this is less of a guide to 21st century womanhood as [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Beauty, Family, Fashion, Humour, Parenting, Personal, Religion, Women on Jun 3rd, 2011
My daughter and her all-female class made their First Communions recently. The massed ranks in the church were quite a sight to see. Immaculately coiffed hairdos, amazingly stylish frocks, even a few fake tans. Yes, the mothers looked stunning. Of course all the little Communicants were beautiful, and they could never be overshadowed by their [...]
Posted in Humour, Media, Random Wonderfulness, Television, Women on Apr 26th, 2011
It might be that I only became hyper-sensitive about female TV characters after I had my own daughter, but I don’t think so. I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t rolling my eyes over the hair-twirling, doe-eyed, boobalicious depictions of female “empowerment” in popular media, but then again, I am a product of [...]
I didn’t take up drinking tea until very late in life – my twenties, as it happens. Yes, I know that one’s twenties don’t exactly qualify as autumn years, but so engrained is the concept of The Tay in Ireland, not supping of a cuppa until you’ve moved out from home is as alien as [...]
Posted in Celebrity, Humour, International, Random Wonderfulness on Mar 22nd, 2011
Easily the funniest thing you will see anywhere on the internet today. Imagine Kate’s delight. I hope she and Wills have bought a full set of these…. The Fairytale Romantic Union of All the Centuries Share this:EmailFacebook
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