Transatlantic Blonde‘s Feminist Friday prompt is myth busting. In the spirit of taking a theme and largely ignoring it, I’d like to explore the contradiction of our ideals of femininity. So what’s feminine? How do you become lady-like? Possibly the best medium to explain this is, obviously, musical theatre. The orchestra strikes up and the […]
Why has Brad Pitt driven a whole city demented?
Men Behaving Reasonably – sitcom women fight back
Do you remember Terry and June? Margo and Jerry? Victor Meldrew and Margaret? Of course you do… Then there was Basil, Sybil and the rest… It was the stuff of Saturday evenings on the sofa. The family gathered enjoying time together. Let’s face it, there wasn’t a choice then – if you didn’t like what […]
Violence against women – Viagra for the rapists
Today’s theme at Transatlantic Blonde’s Feminist Friday is violence against women. There are reports that Colonel Gaddafi has been dishing out Viagra to his troops so that they can rape to order. This sickening news has marched round and round in my head all week until it has worn a deep uneasy path. I’ve been […]
Sh*g, marry avoid – the Edinburgh Moonwalk version
Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and David Cameron. Trinny, Susannah and Mary Portas. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. George Michael, Freddie Mercury and Marc Almond, Justin Fletcher, Mr Bloom and Grandpa In My Pocket. This is what it had come to. Tough, tough choices I can tell you. You see @Ladyblahblahs and I […]