You know, I would be a bit more convinced by this (article about The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes), if the author were not described as holding a post which does not exist - people are not Professors of 'the University of London' but of one or other of the constituent colleges federated to it. This may be a reporter's error, I suppose. There had also ( Read more... )

Apparently - this fleeted past me on Twitter a week or so ago, and is writ up here in more detail and with historical context - there are still people who are not living in caves and unaware that the Napeolonic Wars are over, who believe in dangerous menstrual toxins:
Secretly Murdering Your Husband: The one weird trick that baffled researchers.
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On the one hand, obviously (???) there is something problematic about societal obligations upon women to go into seclusion when they're menstruating -
On the other hand, though that part of my life is long behind me, there were certainly times when I would have liked to withdraw from the pressures for a day or so and just chill out with a hot- ( Read more... )

I thought I had thoughts, but by this state of the day, they have gone. So have a few links.
Clearing out some tabs, which I presumably thought were of interest at the time I saw them:
Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle.
Donna Stepan and her family rehabilitate orphaned wombats at their sanctuary in Australia.
NoFap Founder ( Read more... )

The seven apps every woman should own.
At least two of them irrelevant to me at my time of life - possibly three, although I have heard it posited that there is a still a muted hormonal cycle after Ye Grande Climacterycke, but I can't say I have particularly noticed one, though in days of yore my periods were fairly irregular anyway.
Also, ' ( Read more... )

Have seen, flickering past me in the sidebar on GoodReads - I assume these are promoted works - something that declares 'No more wimpy heroines!'
Hellooooo? Quite apart from this being late to the party as far as the notion of the Strong Woman Character goes, I think a case can be made that there is a long tradition of heroines who do not conform ( Read more... )

Dept of Women's Bodies, Women's Lives, and, what century are we in, again?
Bridget Christie: feminine products a luxury? Hardly. At least Jeremy Corbyn understands (I may have mentioned, I feel totes smug at quite a lot of those 'tell your MP' this or that emails that I get, because I am of the opinion that Jezza* already knows).
‘It was the ( Read more... )

(Via a brief annotation, not online as far as I can see, in the Guardian G2 Comments and Features page this morning.)

Women could 'evolve' out of menopause and bear children later, says scientist

How is this something to be going yay about (which this scientist is)?

I cannot help feeling that the only people for whom this would be unqualified good ( Read more... )

While it may be true that there is an epidemic of addiction to prescription painkillers in the USA, and that doctors are wildly overprescribing heavier-duty analgesics than actual conditions require and that Big Pharma is Not Innocent -

We hardly think that the desire to be 'pain-free' is an artefact of Wimpy Modern Society and suggest that Mr ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, Germaine Greer's review of Caitlin Moran's new book How To Be A Woman is sequestered behind The Times paywall (chiz! chiz! this is the second time this week that this has thwarted me - apparently Helen King had a letter there exploding the Queen Victorian, cannabis and period pains historimyth, which I have not been able to access).

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