Tag: Life
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Nigella and Charles. Would you have intervened?
A friend of mine alerted me to the images of Nigella Lawson being abused by her husband Charles Saatchi in a restaurant last week. My friend exclaimed ‘Why didn’t anyone do anything? If this was in a professional environment, two men or two women then there would have been intervention but because its domestic everyone…
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How to be a teenage feminist? by Francesca Stocker
I am currently stuck in the teenage years. Yes that’s right, I’m stuck in a bubble of endless dreams and I am part of the “new generation” of tech-saavy, loud-mouth, opinionated fools who are allowed way too much say on the Internet. Isn’t youth such a wonderful thing? However, it seems to be the only…
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People hate it when you are good.
Ever get the feeling that when something is going well or when you have achieved success that utter catastrophe is around the corner? Perhaps it’s because we are battered round the head with ‘what goes up must come down’ theology as though it’s gravity that will inevitably humble us with a reminder that our achievement…
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The ‘Disney Princess’ night.
“She writes a Feminist blog you know!” My friend is wobbling on her heels and looking at me like a proud mother. Our eyes meet as I smile warmly at her and do my best “acknowledge this as true but let the moment pass” The 40 something year old man nods at me and hands…
Holly Peacock-Goodwin 