A risotto analogy
Ok, imagine you are a judge on one of those celebrity cooking shows. Got it? Good. Let’s say that you’re tasting two tomato risottos, one made by Andy and one made by Caroline. Andy’s risotto is...
View ArticleUpdate: Guest posts and more Austen
Guest Blogging I have a guest post! Mr Brown has written 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Don Quixote and it’s well worth reading. This is part of a three-way swap where I write something for Choler, he...
View ArticleA brief note on women and work
There’s your basic sexism, the “women are just not as good as men” type. And then there are the two very slightly less obvious sexism types, which often don’t even sound that bad: the “men and women...
View ArticleThe Truly Terrible Secret of Being Fat?
There’s an article in the Guardian today by Hopi Sen, the former Labour head of campaigns, about his struggles to lose weight. I liked it for being very honest and not melodramatic. There’s one thing...
View ArticleCan men be funny?
It’s a question some people think shouldn’t even be asked. But today we put political correctness aside and have the courage to say openly: are men funny? Let’s look at the facts. - Very few men get to...
View ArticleA Genderswitched Anthology
But it isn’t only that Jeeves’s judgment about clothes is infallible, though, of course, that’s really the main thing. The woman knows everything. There was the matter of that tip on the...
View ArticleFather’s Day Feminism
It’s Father’s Day this weekend. It may be a manufactured holiday but I celebrate it anyway, so I’m in a shop trying to find a card for my dad in the three minutes before the toddler starts wanting to...
View ArticleFeminine Power: No Thanks!
A friend was recently sent a link to an event taking place next weekend, called The Keys to Feminine Power – Awakening the Three Power Bases of the New Co-Creative Feminine. (I know, right?) I am...
View ArticleThis is what a feminist looks like
A guest blog post by Cat Let’s get this out in the open – me and feminism haven’t always got on. For a long time we had a far from easy relationship and I preferred to keep it at arm’s length, to the...
View ArticleTwitter, kangaroo courts and Woody Allen
This is what a kangaroo court is: An unfair, biased, or hasty judicial proceeding that ends in a harsh punishment; an unauthorized trial conducted by individuals who have taken the law into their own...
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