Tea and Strumpets
A really interesting post from rtmiss on issues of consent, centred on the social background we both share. No means no is a concept that should be very simple. Except that it isn’t. Human beings make an awful lot of decisions based on individual perceptions, and we all perceive other people’s reactions differently. Note that [...]
If you can read the following paragraph, and not be angry, you’re not a feminist. Women still don’t earn as much income as men in comparable occupations and there is still a tendency to think that women belong in the kitchen, but the feminists that have fought for equality over the years have had a [...]
Things we liked, or didn’t like, from around the internet this week. How could we not share this? I submit a hypothesis for debate: among female writers how well a woman writes correlates with how much she values life. The will to create beautiful art or elegant prose is just a different manifestation of the [...]
Oh noes! You guys! In the US there are reporters getting all sexy up in their Twitter profile pictures, and it’s causing a stir. Consider: News organizations will have to decide whether having star reporters making silly faces on camera, posing artistically, or wearing skin-bearing [sic] dresses is congruent with their brand image. More often, [...]
My own personal brand of feminism is born of a very great desire to be left alone to do my thing, to be allowed the same rights and responsibilities every adult deserves. It extends to giving those same rights and responsibilities to everyone else, and then staying out of their damn lives. You don’t want [...]
Things we liked, or didn’t like, from around the internet this week. Zuska sets out the rules for being a working mother: The Working Mom Issue: It Depends. Embodying gender differences at Sociological Images. Do click through and take a look at the photos: they’re fascinating. My (Deb) friend and colleague, Cat Pause, appeared in [...]
20/20 is screening a story about fat activism in New Zealand tonight. You can read about the story on Friend of Marilyn – Fat Activism in New Zealand on 20/20. 20/20 is on TV2, at 9.30pm tonight.
Cross posted Like Annanonymous, the latest breast vs bottle dust-up has touched a raw nerve for me, no doubt due to my own experiences with breast feeding. But also because I find the number of shoulds and shouldn’ts that are dished out endlessly to parents deeply wearying. All too often the edicts seem to be [...]
Things we liked, or didn’t like, from around the Internet this week. On undies, and why on earth can’t women’s undies be as gloriously comfortable as men’s from PickleMeThis. From The Guardian (ie Don’t Read the Comments), Women Can Be Independent and Intimate: a look at changing paradigms of relationships. Young women need to know [...]
Because there’s no such thing as a stigma against fat people, some days, it slips my mind that I am overweight. You see, I don’t ever get random abuse shouted at me on the street. The fact that I can only shop in about 5% of the clothes shops in my city in no way [...]
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