Aug 31, 2010

It's a feature, not a bug

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  Laurie Penny writes persuasively in the New Statesman about the interesting dynamics that lead to young women performing better than young...
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Aug 4, 2010

Constructing the "women are women's worst enemies" myth

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  You want a literary catfight? The Guardian will give you a literary catfight! Wait, you don't want a catfight, of any kind really? We...
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Jul 27, 2010

Lazy post: Childless by Choice

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  A few weeks ago, I gave an email interview for an online piece about women who choose to remain childless. It all ended up on the cutting ...
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Jul 26, 2010

Why economics is not a science

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  If you're not familiar with the Prisoner's Dilemma, here's a nice Wikipedia article about it for you. For the purposes of thi...
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Apr 15, 2010

The new Feudalism (and why women really shouldn't vote for the Tories)

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  OK, so first off, we live in a feudal society. If this is news to you, then: wakey wakey! Let's anatomize. A feudal society is one on ...
Mar 10, 2010

On our own two feet

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The 100th anniversary of International Women's Day , with it's theme of Progress, has been marked, among oter things, by a flurry of...
Feb 18, 2010

In all the excitement about victim blaming, good old-fashioned rapist blaming is a sadly declining activity

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  There's been a predictably large volume of online response to a recently published report about attitudes towards rape, in which c...
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Feb 2, 2010

Festive Perspective

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  I haven't really been following the whole Polanski thing recently, because there are only so many articles I can read about the moral ...
Jan 8, 2010

Important Announcement to World: Women. Have. Breasts.

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  So this thing has been making the rounds on Facebook, asking women to post the colour of their bra in their status in order to "raise...
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Dec 1, 2009

'Tis the season to be sexually assaulted, falalalala, lalalaLAH

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  Yo ladies! Listen Up! Did you know that drinking alcohol makes you grow a penis? S'truth. According to Gwent Police, a penis might jus...
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Nov 24, 2009

Deconstructing Diversity

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  At a departmental update meeting yesterday, our head of operations approvingly commented that we are "ahead of the rest of the region...
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Oct 23, 2009

I can has PCC complaint too

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  On today's Guardian Science Weekly podcast (around minute 30), the presenters read out loud a number of comments that were left by lis...
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Oct 21, 2009

"Forever young and never forgotten. A man, a friend, a brother, a son, a husband and a hero."

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  So said Ronan Keating of his friend Stephen Gately, who sadly passed away last week. Doesn't sound like anything special, unless you k...
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Oct 10, 2009

Fragment: some out of context thoughts on the Primark padded bra thing and young girls' sexuality/sexualisation

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  I wrote this ages ago as part of a wider rumination on how we panic about the sexualisation of young girls because it might lead them to h...
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Oct 6, 2009

A quick summary of the past week's papers

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  Look, it's actually quite simple. We don't want young girls getting the HPV vaccine, because they are pure, innocent ingenues who ...
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Sep 30, 2009

Creation is not Causation

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David Cox, in case you don't know who he is, is a film critic for the Guardian. He's a very bad film critic; it's not that he d...