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Individuality vs Societal change

“Feminism means not judging women’s choices” “Body positivity means celebrating people loving their bodies” These are positive, uplifting quotes. Based on celebrating and raising up…

Inspiring boys to break the mould

It is very important to me that both my children grow up knowing that they do not have to change who they are, that they…

Language and talking at cross purposes

Language is a funny beast. It’s fascinating, but also rarely straightforward. Online conversation can make for some interesting clashes in language: for example, I used…

Raising a child gender free

I’ve been thinking about this case recently, where an eight month old has been issued a health card which does not mention their sex. The…

Is Wonder Woman privileged?

It might seem strange to apply a real world principle, like privilege, to a fictional character. But I think it can be quite interesting to…

“That’s a boy thing”

My kids have reached that age. Now the infuriating conversations have started. “Boys do this, girls don’t” “That’s a girls toy” “Girls don’t like that”…

Human Nature

A little while ago I read and amazing book called Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. I loved it, and highly recommend it. It’s a story…

All bodies are beautiful

She was an ugly duckling at school, teased for being bigger than the others. She wasn’t huge, but kids are cruel. She wanted to model…

Non-men: Or women as “Other”

Edited (16/04/16 19:00) I’ve added to this a bit, because I realised some points weren’t as clear as I’d have liked them. I’ve been on…

Plus Size Nudity

Being body positive and being feminist sometimes collide in my head, one of the issues which comes up often is to do with nude bodies.…

Not only #WeAreTheThey, we are also people not animals

Since Plus Size Wars has been on I’ve seen a few idiots people comparing plus size girls and women to pets. The two instances that…

Being stalked – a follow up

I wrote that post about Jamie Dornan yesterday in a rage, and with little time to do so. Then as the day wore on and…

Being stalked doesn’t feel “kind of exciting”

I read something today which made me angry, turns out that in preparation for his role in The Fall, Jamie Dornan.. actually.. let me tell…

A 2014 recap: Puking, parenting, pain and feminism

It has been an interesting year, thought I’d go through it with some blog posts. Started the year puking, while technically this is a post…

Being an angry woman – and why it scares me

Thanks to my gender I’ve known from a very young age that the expectations for me were radically different than the expectations for a child born…

“Look at her, how dare she let us look at her!”

I’ve just taken a break from playing my recent Steam/GOG purchases and stopped clock watching for the new flash deals to write about sexism and…

Yes All Women

I have a love/hate relationship with the #YesAllWomen hashtag. I love that it’s raising awareness, but I hate that it needs to exist at all.…

“But I’m a nice guy”

Very short post as I know there are others out there who can make these points much more eloquently than I can, but this has…

“Why did you stay? “

I was both reading and participating last night in the #ShoutingBack twitter conversation about sexism in the workplace, when I realised something quite sad. Out…

This is my fucking body

On behalf of women everywhere, our bodies belong to us. No one else. It doesn’t matter how much someone else might think they are entitled…

“You like to buy us pink toys and everything else is for boys”

I assume you’ve seen the Goldieblox advert by now? If not, have a look, see what you think. First things first, I love the visuals…