Right, I am probably just adding fuel to the fire here, given my past encounters with Caitlin Moran, her book and the utterly desperate and downright baffling level of defensiveness my negative review of her book caused, but given her recent outburst of privilege and ignorance, I feel the need to say something.

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 Like many people, I have been watching the coverage of the riots in London over the past few days. There's been a gamut of emotions going through my mind since this all started - anger, fear, confusion - but the overriding feeling I've had, especially in the past few hours, is that of disappointment ( Read more... )

I was there a grand total of an hour, I didn't do or say much and I fell one my arse once.

It was glorious.

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Today, I finished reading “Eat Pray Love.” It had been on my radar ever since the inescapable movie trailers and adverts starting popping up around the internet a few weeks ago and this article on female pop culture piqued my interest so I thought it would be interesting to see what all the fuss was about as well as the growing criticism for the ( Read more... )

Everybody who has kept up with the Sparkle Project or follows me on twitter knows my opinion of Becca Fitzpatrick’s debut paranormal romance YA novel “Hush, Hush.” If you do not and are not in the mood to read a lot of ranting in my review, the short explanation is that I despised it. No book has angered me in the way that book did. I could not ( Read more... )

It's no big secret that I love Disney movies. The very first film I saw at the cinema, and one of the earliest memories I have, was Aladdin, I was brought up with nightly readings from these abridged Disney storybooks my parents got me and even today I get giddy when I watch their films. Well, some of their films, I get a bit cringey with ( Read more... )

Recently Jezebel.com discussed the lack of women on The Daily Show. I love the show but there are too few women on it, at least count there was Samantha Bee, occasional correspondent Kristin Schaal and the new (not so funny) correspondent Olivia Munn (I am not dragging up that wank again, honestly!) As I briefly, not so eloquently said in my 100 ( Read more... )

As if my other rant wasn't enough, I'm back and more enraged than usual. I was browsing some communities to look for Bones icons for my sister. It's her favourite show and she wanted some help looking for cool icons (where better than fandom capital?) But when I typed in Bones on the search, I ended up getting several results for anorexia sites. ( Read more... )