I stopped in Sainsbury's last night to pick up a couple of bits on my way home (note to self: their own brand meat-free kievs are a bit...weird. Don't get them again). On the end of an aisle there was a rack of children's fancy dress costumes. Thinking 'Awww' I stopped to look at them, and was utterly horrified to see that the 'doctor' costume ( Read more... )

Interesting article about women being cast as the mother of an actor the same age of them ( Read more... )

Sunday the 14th of December was the 90th anniversary of the first UK General Election in which women were allowed to vote. I only discovered this by chance, there seems to have been nothing on the BBC website (not even an 'also on this day', although admittedly I haven't delved too far), and nothing on the Woman's Hour page. Call me a loonie- ( Read more... )

This made me laugh muchly. Make sure you skim through the comments ( Read more... )

I was in the supermarket a couple of days ago and passed a small boy complaining about wanting something or objecting to something his mother had chosen. A few minutes later I passed them again, and heard the child call his mother "you stupid little woman". I was shocked, and had the following thoughts ( Read more... )

I continue my reading of why my feminist perspective (and indeed my attitude to life) is fundementally false...From http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-beautifully-with-new-frugality.html

-Women at home do not need to drink, ( Read more... )

I have been reading a fair amount of anti-feminism on the web on the last few days, and something that has cropped up on a number of occasions is the concept of a hope chest. The argument seems to be that Hope Chests are wonderful things encouraging maidens to prepare for their marriage and start producing things for a blissful life of domesticity ( Read more... )

I really like http://www.christa-taylor.com/c/modest-swimwear/ this swimming costum, but I am terrified by the website which sells 'modest clothing for modern women' (and the fact that I clicked through from the Ladies Against Feminism website, via this Read more... )