When fashion blogger Blair Hartley flicked through a copy of more! magazine that she’d found lying around at work last Friday, she was disappointed with what she saw. Frustrated to see a number of features centred around the theme of ‘Inside Men’s Minds’ and using what she saw as insulting stereotypes of both men and women, she vented her thoughts on Twitter later that day.
BITCH:TECH
22 Jun 2010 07:53 GMT
Katy Perry is someone I’m not sure I understand. Engaged to Russell Brand, one of the most scandalous men in British pop culture, Katy Perry’s first big hit was about kissing girls. And liking it. She has had other hits about dubachery in Vegas, and about guys being “so gay” without actually liking boys. She’s a conundrum, that one.
BITCH:NEWS
21 Jun 2010 17:00 GMT
Crikey, school uniform is tricky ground isn’t it?! I don’t envy the people in charge who have to make decisions about what goes and what doesn’t, which items to pick, and what creative interpretations to let slide. However, despite a certain sense of empathy, I have to say that a lot of the time schools manage to get their policies on uniform completely and utterly wrong.
BITCH:NEWS
18 Jun 2010 09:24 GMT
2010 is a great year for books on contemporary feminism. Just when you’d had enough of everyone despairing (or rejoicing) that feminism is now at thing of the past or that women don’t care about equality any more, several books are published within the space of a few months, proving that actually, feminism is still extremely important to a lot of women.
BITCH:NEWS
16 Jun 2010 14:00 GMT
After spending two weeks in a southern American State, I realized just how drastic, horrifying, and complicated the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually is. Being so far north and away from the drama, the UK and other countries are talking ...
BITCH:NEWS
15 Jun 2010 14:00 GMT
Everyone says that change is positive and I tend to agree. However, you might remember my recent post expressing my disappointment rather emphatically about the transformations Paris will likely undergo in the coming months/years.
BITCH:NEWS
10 Jun 2010 13:45 GMT
As the World Cup approaches, so do the mindless facts and figures and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the gender stereotypes. Every single media outlet seems to assume that all men love football while all women have an inbuilt inability to understand the offside rule. Even places like
BITCH:NEWS
08 Jun 2010 09:00 GMT
Reclaiming the F Word by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune is published by Zed Books this month and is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some time. As a contributor to The F Word for a number of years when Re...
BITCH:NEWS
02 Jun 2010 13:00 GMT
While I am a big fan of bloggers like Adam Westbrook, I must admit I have a few questions over this whole idea of journalists as entrepreneurs.I love Adam’s side of the argument – while old school hacks are patronising younger journalists for dari...
BITCH:NEWS
01 Jun 2010 12:30 GMT
Whether you love them or loathe them, resent every penny you fork out for them, buy only the best or eschew them altogether, you can’t deny that the bra isn’t a pretty iconic garment.This month marks 100 years since the modern brassiere was invented by a 19-year-old New Yorker – and this week, women have been
BITCH:NEWS
28 May 2010 12:00 GMT