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Questions from an encounter with a pretty boy

April 16, 2012 By Ellen

Last week two of my oldest friends and I met in a trendy city restaurant for one of our infrequent catch ups. Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.Just getting that in before the Panther of News does.So there we were swapping news and enjoying each others’ company – […]

Filed Under: feminism, Is it me?, sexism

Who would stop a little boy wearing a tutu?

February 16, 2012 By Ellen

The childminder dropped Boy Three off today, he’d had a good day. “I hope you don’t mind, but he was dressing up… he was wearing a pink sparkly ballet tutu.” Why on earth would I mind? “Some people are strange about it,” she explained.  Now this is an entirely sensible childminder of twenty plus years […]

Filed Under: boys, feminism, pink stinks, sexism

Thatcher: was The Iron Lady an inspiration to women?

January 31, 2012 By Ellen

Meryl Streep as Thatcher in The Iron Lady Everyone has a view on Mrs T. Even now more than 20 years since she resigned as prime minister, the mention of her name causes fists to clench and jaws to tighten. Even now she’s an ailing and diminished old lady but still has the power to polarise […]

Filed Under: feminism, film, Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady

What does your child’s teacher call you?

December 21, 2011 By Ellen

Learning the ropes as a parent And do you care? If someone from school has to ring you up, who do they as for? Do they ask for so-and-so’s mum or do they use your name. Do they always get it right?  If you the kind of family where everyone has the same surname, then […]

Filed Under: family, feminism, feminist Friday, names, schools.

just a mum…

August 1, 2007 By Ellen

Instant karmaFeminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking. Polly Toynbee in the Guardian, January 19, 1987Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Filed Under: equality, feminism, Marx, motherhood, mummy, Polly Toynbee, today's thought

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