I am not accustomed to agreeing with Liz Jones. Her writing is definitely typical of Daily Mail writers in that it seems designed to provoke and offend, and aside from that, she just seems slightly insane.This weekend though, she wrote an article containing something which almost resembled a good point. It was also deeply offensive, but this is Liz Jones - you’re supposed to get annoyed. Her basic argument was (I think) that the honour killings we hear so much about in countri...
BITCH:NEWS
09 Feb 2010 10:01 GMT
While people have been running bake sales for a long time, it seems that the idea of whipping up and selling homemade baked goods for a good cause is all the rage.Schools in the UK held bake sales to raise money for Haiti, and now both UK charities Shelter and Bliss are asking for the good folks in the United Kingdom run week long bake sales and sell their own cakes to help raise money for both of their causes.
BITCH:NEWS
08 Feb 2010 13:00 GMT
International charity ActionAid have published a limited edition collaboration of poetry from women in developing countries, and international stars such as Dame Judy Dench and Yoko Ono. The collaboration is what ActionAid describe as being a “celebration of the resilience, humour and hope seen in the women it works with in some of the poorest countries in the world.”
BITCH:CULTURE
01 Feb 2010 10:07 GMT
The Haiti earthquake's brought out a number of massive campaigns to raise money for the victims who will clearly be affected for some time. Susan Porritt's just launched a female-orientated fund raising idea. In the same vein as the ad campaign that prodded you into not only giving money but also thinking by showing a picture of third world water source and asking the question: How much would you pay not to drink this water? For me the answer started as 'a fiver?' and then slowly wen...
BITCH:NEWS
29 Jan 2010 09:31 GMT
"Oral sex" isn't a bad word. It's not a four-letter expletive; it's not even a nickname for a sexual part of human anatomy. And yet, because it has to do with sex, it MUST BE BAD.That's how some parents down in Menifee, California think, anyway. So passionately that a complaint about "oral sex" being in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dicti...
BITCH:SEX
28 Jan 2010 19:00 GMT
The trial of Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting late-term abortion doctor George Tiller is now underway in Kansas.Roeder, who is charged with first degree murder, confessed to shooting Dr Tiller on May 31st last year – although he has now pleaded not guilty. The physician, whose clinic was one of only three US clinics prov...
BITCH:NEWS
27 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT
When Lily Allen first burst onto the scene in 2006, I was in l-o-v-e. Her poofy bangs, her sassy attitude, her catchy tunes about nans being window shoppers and boys that ejaculate prematurely... She was a girl after my own heart.Sure, plenty of people didn’t like her. She talked shit about people like Amy Winehouse, Cheryl Cole, Kate Nash, and pretty much anyone else she didn’t like. She blogged about feeling inadequate. She Tweeted about what a dick Perez Hilton was. She was availabl...
BITCH:NEWS
26 Jan 2010 14:30 GMT
While I am fully appreciative and supportive of the NHS, one of my biggest concerns with the system has been their policy to not give women cancer screening smears until the age of 25.
BITCH:NEWS
25 Jan 2010 09:34 GMT
We all react to adversity in different ways: some stick out their chins and trudge on, heads held high; some fall into penitence and scourging and prayer; some turn to works of kindness for the very least among us. Most of us, however, whinge and moan and complain to anyone who will listen. Things didn't used to be like this, we're sure, everything is so much harder now, I can't believe there's not WiFi here!
BITCH:NEWS
21 Jan 2010 09:37 GMT
A study carried out by researchers at the University of California claims to show that blonde women are more aggressive and competitive than their brunette and red-haired sisters.Every so often we hear about some new piece of evolutionary psychology masquerading as an amazing insight into our minds and behaviour. It gets picked up by magazines and newspapers; pundits talk about it on daytime television shows and before long it becomes a serious discussion point.
BITCH:NEWS
20 Jan 2010 09:54 GMT