The Beauty Myth

Remember we said we were going to have some exciting guest posters? Well, meet the first one! Medbh of the excellent Dante and the Lobster is not impressed by Elizabeth ‘Whiny’ Wurztel’s lament for her supposedly lost looks…
Amy Benfer’s post over at Broadsheet brought my attention to Elizabeth Wurtzel’s article in the latest [...]

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The morning after the night before…..

My thoughts on this year’s Oscars, as distilled into Twitter-sized chunks for your reading pleasure:

Like Kate Winslet, I too practised my acceptance speech in the mirror, except I was holding a Toilet Duck. I fear this is where I may have gone wrong in life.

Beyonce, you look like something that fell out [...]

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Celebrity Saints

God, is there anything worse than a preachy celebrity putting the world to rights? Well, yeah, actually, and I’m pretty sure 13 year old Chadian kids being permanently disabled by being shot in the legs is one of them.ut I wouldn’t know about one particular Chadian child if George Clooney hadn’t met him recently. This [...]

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Jade Goody: Living and Dying in the public eye

The Anti-Roomers on the news that Jade Goody is dying of cancer and plans to live out her remaining time in the public eye. We’d love to hear your thoughts, feel free to jump in in the comments section.
LEIGH: Sweet Lord. Try as I might, I can’t stop rubbernecking the whole sorry saga that is [...]

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Revoking your crushes or ‘How Giovanni Ribisi broke my heart’

I think it’s fair to assume that all of us have crushes on famous folk. Some, of course, are more predictable than others. Brad Pitt and George Clooney are obvious choices, and there’s the whole ’scarlah’ spectrum of our crushes of shame. Erotomania sufferers aside, none of us are delusional enough to think that [...]

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TV Heaven, Telly Purgatory

Question: how to you react when you hear everyone banging on about a new and much-hyped TV programme? The type of shows, say, that turn people into heinous YouTube bores at house parties? If you’re anything like me, you’ll run straight in the opposite direction of it all. Given that every cat, dog and divil [...]

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Heat Rash

What would we ladies do without Heat Magazine? If it weren’t there to inform and educate us, we might forget to subject other women’s bodies to the sort of scrutiny once reserved for crime scene investigations. We might not be aware that cellulite is shameful but clavicles are even worse. And I’m pretty sure we [...]

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Helen Mirren and date rape

Post-holiday blues hit in a big way last week, and stopped me getting off my ass and finishing a post I started about Helen Mirren. Her recent comments about date rape tap into something I discussed in a post called Sex, Consent and Expectations.

I’ve always liked Helen Mirren. To me, she has always seemed [...]

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Crushes of Shame

We’ve talked about hot girl crushes, we’ve talked about role-dependent crushes, but now it’s time to talk about the crushes that dare not speak their name.es, the crush you know is wrong, wrong, wrong (or, to put it more accurately, embarrassing) but can’t help it. The men or women you know aren’t really attractive but [...]

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Feeling the love

In today’s Guardian there is an In Defense of Madonna-style article by Aida Edemariam (oh to have a name like that) giving out about the fact that people like Camille Paglia, Germaine Greer and Julie Burchill have all turned on the 50-year-old pop star.
Why is Madonna causing such disapproval amongst her purportedly feminist sistas? Aida sees [...]

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