Feminism
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“I’d have given you the post, but you’re pregnant”
Pregnancy should be a magical, special time. Magical, that is, unless you’re one of the unlucky 2 per cent of women who develop hyperemesis gravidarum, an extreme form of all-day sickness and nausea in pregnancy. Sickness aside, the months of growing a baby inside you and the time after enjoying your little one should be…
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Sluts of the world, unite
Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. Does it make you cringe? Did your hackles rise? Let’s try again. Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. OK, I’ll stop now. Actually, the word (wait for it) SLUT has become much more than an offensive word dripping with hidden meanings and implications. As of 2011, it’s become political. It’s…
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The return of the 1950s housewife? No thanks.
I was actually going to blog about accessibility this week, but then an article in The Telegraph caught my attention. Well, not so much ‘caught’ as in ‘enraged’ my attention, if such a thing is possible. The Telegraphs so-called Social Affairs Editor writes that what women want, in the 21st century, is to marry a rich man.…