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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When Pat met Pete

So Pat Kenny thinks he’s a paid up member of the Hammer & Sickle brigade by taking a pay cut from RTE during the recession? Well done Pat. It still doesn’t justifiy the massive salary and utter incompetence when it comes to interviewing people on The Late Late Show. Last Friday, Pete Doherty was a [...]

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Me me me me

Respect where it’s due – my fellow Anti-Roomers are delightfully adept at keeping abreast of pop culture this and zeitgeist that. TV, music, film, fem-trends, they’ve got it all licked…and fair play to them. So I thought I’d leave them to it and post about my own specialist subject – ME.
I know – egomaniacal bint.
Anyway, [...]

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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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The Wedding March

Gender stereotypes are always annoying, but few are more annoying than the idea that all women are desperate to get married and all men are terrified of the prospect. Strangely enough, not all women are marriage-crazed and not all men are marriage-phobic (and some women wouldn’t want to marry men anyway)! But you wouldn’t know [...]

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When it comes to women and power, there’s some good news, and some bad news…

If we were in any doubt that the prospect of a female leader fills some people with fear and loathing, the coverage of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin’s political careers should be enough to confirm our worst fears (although I’ve got to say that another one of my worst fears is a fundie, anti-environmentalist gun-nut [...]

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Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad

One of the worst things about the weather this godforsaken summer is that I can’t cycle into work every day (well, I could, if I wanted to cycle in lashing rain, but I don’t). When I got my bike last year and started cycling regularly for the first time since I was in college, a [...]

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What’s a girl to do

Okay, so this is frivolous, but seriously, following on from my last post about how I was going to get myself out of my rut and glam up, it’s proving more difficult than I thought. Mainly due to the weather. I spent much of my adolescence in mid-west America and the months of November through [...]

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THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN

I want to start this post by saying I am not a prude. I have sex. Hell, I really like sex. I read a smutty bit in a book, I’m ready to go; see sex on screen, I’m up for it, but my god, would you in the apartment below me keep it down to [...]

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Kooky Monsters

There’s a certain sort of girl who crops up regularly in films, especially those of the indie variety. She’s kooky, she’s crazy, she dances to the beat of her own annoying drum, and her mission is to teach some boring bloke how to live. Oh, and she’s totally hot. The Onion A. V. Club call [...]

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