Tag: Self-Esteem
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 [...]
Through Hairless Eyelids
As I stared at myself in the mirror, I thought ‘You look like a pig. Pig-girl.’ My eye scrutinised the minutia of my face with a magnified mirror. Up close, it was quite obscene; pores, blemishes and eyelashes 5 times their normal size crawling over my eyelids like graphite pencilled black spiders. With a deft [...]
The Vagina Dialogues
“Say it again.” “I’ve said it like 10 times already. When can I stop?” “When you don’t have to ask if you can stop” said my friend. “It’s obviously making you uncomfortable so you have to say it as many times as it takes, not to.” “But why do I need to say it. I [...]
