Tag: feminism
The Bush Administration
Bush: Uncut I’ve come a long way with my bundle of issues, but discussing pubic hair with my mother-in-law is most strictly out of bounds. Or it was, until now. I wasn’t aware of having invited the conversation either; an innocent comment on my loss of hair on my head following my pregnancy, had started a tirade [...]
Should China’s one-child policy be scrapped?
As a writer I believe in the power of words. They can make you laugh or cry. But there’s only one topic that makes me retch involuntarily from disgust. The abuse of children. Combine that with my new-found passion for feminism since the birth of my tiny, adored daughter, and I almost thought for this [...]
No Doesn’t Always Mean No
As an avid watcher of every crime drama going, I see televised depictions of violence and abuse almost daily. Rape is always ugly, never deserved and usually the bad guy is put away by the end of the episode. And as the camera zooms in on a ugly snarling male, having been demeaned and humiliated [...]
I knew I was a Feminist when…
…I dressed my boy in his sister’s old tights and some members of my family had a problem with it. Not a big problem. But they jeered (most politely of course since we are English) and said in an honestly bemused fashion Why are you dressing him in girls’ tights? When you’re a parent, you [...]
Why is Sheryl Sandberg So Close-minded?
I am a very lucky woman. And I am even luckier to be able to realise it every day. Today’s revelation was remembering my ex-husband’s psychological block about giving me flowers, compared to my boyfriend who only two days ago, brought home a bunch of yellow roses unprompted. In today’s world of unstable and piecemeal [...]
