Whale freed after being stranded at lock along River Thames in London - video
But having been freed it now seems to have got stuck again: [S]potted near Teddington lock just after 10.20am, heading downstream towards Chiswick and back towards Richmond: “Its condition is deteriorating. It’s not acting the way it did last night. It’s basically lost ( Read more... )

Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women.
Well, she does name-check Mrs Dalloway though she is not perhaps the most inspiring later-life figure -
- and I hazard that Winifred Holtby's South Riding is perhaps not the much-loved classic across the Atlantic that it is on these shores, with its early-middle-aged spinster ( Read more... )

50 years eh? and some of these things are still having to be reiterated/rediscovered/restated, SIGH: The clitoris, pain and pap smears: how Our Bodies, Ourselves redefined women’s health. But what is great about it is that it did change, that it didn't fossilise, and that editions in other countries were adapted to their particular circumstances - ( Read more... )

What’s in a Name? Erasing women writers in the name of uplifting them: It is easy to get caught in the trap of historical revisionism when it comes to women writers, but this revisionism is rarely along progressive lines - despite its claims. Instead, it is a conservative reimagining of women struggling to survive in a man’s world that erases the ( Read more... )

It's all over the place, that thing about 'it doesn't have to be Lord of the Flies if you have young boys marooned on a desert island':
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months.
There were six of them and they were already a group. Whereas what you had in Golding's book - and I'm prepared to concede ( Read more... )

And I don't mean just in the way that some ancient philosopher declared that being aged out of the travails of love was like being a slave freed from a capricious master -
This is quite icky enough: Surprise proposals are more and more popular - but they look dated and run the risk of denying women their moment. I have perorated before about the ( Read more... )

- and it holds annual conferences.
Because, my dearios, imagine my shuddering horror when I glanced down a list of forthcoming conferences and discovered that not only was there one impending on - wait for it - should I put in a Content Warning? -
Norman Mailer
- and that it was the 17th of that ilk.
There is, indeed, dr rdrz, I am sorry to say ( Read more... )

This guy is some kind of Conservative blogger, and really, I do think it rather reveals certain things that one thought were cliched stereotypes of the breed: On judicial corporal punishment.
No, really, he is a positive flopsy-bunny who doesn't believe in capital punishment, honestly. What he wants is corporal punishment, and the implication seems ( Read more... )

Making generalisations about why Other Wymmynz consume the media they do, without, as far as I can tell, actually consulting them (or indeed having any very deep or nuanced knowledge of the media in question), for coming up for 50 years (see her assumptions in The Female Eunuch about why gurlyz read romance - which she seems to think pretty much co ( Read more... )

Given that women just speaking up about sexual harassment is considered a 'witch hunt' and a violent assault on civilised values, I really wonder what men are thinking when they say things recommending actual physical violence as what these gurlyzz should be doing instead of whyngeyng: Parris writes: “If someone gropes you, kick him in the balls. ( Read more... )