Boys groped her, men shouted at her on the street, and girls and women reacted with hostility. Samara Ginsberg reports on growing up with large breasts
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EDIT: Believe it or not, I was a fully-fledged anorexic by the age of 12, so it's not as if I'm a stranger to eating disorders! I had an utterly horrific childh...
The sun is out, the birds are singing and London seems a much happier place. For the benefit of our international readers, Britain is currently enjoying a break...
The Daily Mail is running a truly revolting article today. I mean, seriously. They have actually surpassed themselves on the We-Hate-Women’s-Bodies front....
Cath Elliott is pondering this question on Comment Is Free today.
Can men ever really be feminists, or should pro-feminist men be consigned to the sidelines, w...
Apparently, Lithuania is considering a ban on abortion. This has been pretty much covered at Feministing so I'm not going to say too much about it here.
How ut...
Alice Wignall ponders this question in The Guardian today.
For a show about women, it displays a singular obsession with men. As Miranda, the character most li...
You may have noticed that the Daily Mail seems to have developed a bit of an obsession recently with Miss England's first ever size 16 finalist. Chloe Marshall ...
Your ball-busting brunette blogger read the above headline on The Times website this morning with a mixture of delight, amusement, scepticism, and visions of pr...
Jess' post yesterday got me thinking, or rather, inspired me to actually blog about something to which I've always given a lot of thought.
A couple of years ag...
A while ago, after writing a column about feminism, I received an e-mail from a reader who said: "I think it's great that you, as a man, write about these issue...
Zoe Williams has a hilarious and perceptive opinion piece in The Guardian today, exploring the publishing phenomenon based on cultural stereotypes that would ha...
There's a totally gross article by Minette Marrin in The Times this week about the world's oldest profession.
Minette Marrin is not my favourite journalist in ...
Well, I'm a bare stem, as are the majority of our readers I would guess. Oh woe is me, I so regret losing my beautiful petals - NOT!
Seriously, this is vile....
Joan Smith has written an opinion piece for The Independent about the recent spate of high-profile sexually-motivated murder cases perpetrated by men against wo...
Fay Weldon has written a pretty outrageous piece for the Daily Mail in which she suggests that all girls between the ages of 12 and 17 should be forcibly steril...
Remember that whole business of black women having to choose between their race or their gender? CNN readers have been up in arms about it too:
An e-mailer nam...