One of the spectacular things about Paris is its low-lying skyline. I can freely walk down the street, look up and see the sky and feel the air (only mildly polluted) on my face. I'm able to do this because there is an alignment law in place that regulates a building's height according to the width of the street it lines - or a limit of 121 feet.
BITCH:CULTURE
06 May 2010 15:00 GMT
Here's a study in contrasts: As our own Rebecca Thomson reported, there was a brouhaha about laddish mag Zoo's agony aunt/actor/footballer-wannabe Danny Dyer's 'advice' to a reader, advising him to cut his ex's face so no one else will want to date her.
BITCH:NEWS
06 May 2010 13:00 GMT
This is why “lad’s mags” are horrible. You can just about avoid looking at the covers on the newsstands and ignore the rampant sexism inherent in them most of the time. But then they slip up and reveal what they really think of women and their own readers.Danny Dyer’s advice column in Zoo magazine is currently doing the rounds on Twitter, in which he suggests (I’...
BITCH:NEWS
05 May 2010 15:00 GMT
Few things are as amusing to me as “studies” and “polls” about women and their sex lives. Especially when they make women sound like lazy, nagging, prudes. The Telegraph reports that a new research compiled by the pharmaceutical company Bayer finds that women are having less sex because of technology.
BITCH:NEWS
04 May 2010 09:24 GMT
In case you didn’t already know, the French are fervent protesters. They live to argue with friends, argue at dinner parties with people they’ve only just met, argue with government workers… well argue with almost anyone, really. They learn from a very young age that playing devil’s advocate is fun and protesting is merely an expression of their god given rights as citizens of the Republic. And while most are non-violent manifestations, as they call them, there have been seve...
BITCH:NEWS
29 Apr 2010 14:00 GMT
What is it with men and tubes? Particularly when they're men who hold powerful offices and feel the need to wield that power in a grandstanding gesture so everyone knows just what they have in their hands—it can be an embarrassing display.It's Mad Men in a kind of perverse wish fulfillment for a time that never really existed except of course on television. But if they can send women back a few decades, it will be a first step in creating that paradise apparently.
BITCH:NEWS
29 Apr 2010 08:56 GMT
On May 6th it’s not just time to get down to the polling station (if you’re in the UK, that is). Set a reminder in your diaries and break out your blue ribbon because it’s also International No Diet Day.The first INDD, in 1992, was organised by Mary Evans Young – a former eating disorder sufferer and campaigner who wanted to promote size acceptance and was horrified by the lengths women and girls were going to in order to lose weight.
BITCH:NEWS
28 Apr 2010 08:45 GMT
While it might seem a bit weird for the Prince’s Trust to be partnering up with a Self Esteem campaign run by St Tropez, a fake tan company, in the first place, it would appear the good ol’ PT have woken up, and pulled out as a partner in the campaign.
BITCH:NEWS
26 Apr 2010 14:30 GMT
If you happen to be particularly distracted by the amount of cleavage out on the loose today, you won’t be alone , for today is Boobquake.Yes, Boobquake.Jen McCreight, a “liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist trapped in Indiana” who runs the blog Bl...
BITCH:NEWS
26 Apr 2010 08:29 GMT
Today Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 84th birthday. This one’s actually her real birthday, not her ‘Official Birthday’ which is celebrated in the UK and various Commonwealth countries later in the year.
BITCH:NEWS
21 Apr 2010 08:08 GMT