I've been meaning to post about this ever since the campaign posters started appearing around my local area a few weeks ago, but a post on the Fword blog has just reminded me.

Rape Crisis Scotland are running a new campaign, This is not an invitation to rape me, aimed at tackling the frankly appalling attitudes towards rape in Scotland, for ( Read more... )

The other night, I was watching The Daily Show mocking Nancy Palin over all her nonsense about the "Real" America, which apparently doesn't include vast swathes of the country and quite possibly a majority of the population, and then last night, Gok Wan was at it too, insisting that "Real" women are a size 14 in Miss Naked Beauty on Channel 4 ( Read more... )

Made it to swimming yesterday and feel much better for it. Managed my 40 lengths eventually, felt like an empowered feminist warrior woman by going hairy and not caring, and amused the life guard when he spotted me singing along to Alice Cooper on the sound system. I like the Saturday lifeguards' taste in music ( Read more... )

There's an advert for cosmetic surgery on my Facebook home page at the moment that says 'make yourself amazing ( Read more... )

Series 3 of Veronica Mars is not very good, which is a real shame because the first two seasons were really fine. I am particularly put out at what they have done to Weevil, I would rather the character had just been written out than been betrayed so thoroughly ( Read more... )

Women are half the world's people
who do two-thirds of the world's work.
They earn one tenth of the world's income
and own one hundredth of the world's property.

- United Nations

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than ( Read more... )

BBrrrr! It's amazing how a few days in a milder area makes you feel the cold back in the Frozen North, although it's probably as much because I'm tired as anything, straight to bed after BSG tonight! And a nice cuppa and chocolate in the meantime ( Read more... )

What complete codswollup was Fay Weldon coming out with on Women's hour this morning??? Saying women can't be happy for more than 10 minutes at a time 'cos we're hardwired to fret about silly little things, and advocating lying to your partner and faking orgasms so you don't have to embarrass them by pointing out you could be enjoying yourself more ( Read more... )

It was on the news this morning that a vaccine for the two most common strains of HPV, which cause 70% of cervical cancers, has been 100 % effective in clinical trials and will soon for licensed for use in this country. A small piece on it was included in Women's Hour on Radio 4 - they interviewed a female professor who worked in the field, and a ( Read more... )