Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.*
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Good(ish) Friday
It’s July, which means we’re officially half-way this treat of a year! Also, this week has not been absolutely terrible for women.
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Circling Back to the Big F
Just as I was getting used to seeing daily announcements of high-level women stepping out of the companies and enterprises they had founded, I also came across an article about the #Girlboss mentality and how it might have met its end as people’s attitudes have dramatically shifted during the pandemic.
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The Nineties Called
Personally speaking, the nineties was a good decade. As long as I’m able to see through the aggressively pencilled-in eyebrows and velvet-ribbons-as-chokers, there’s very little to complain about: I became of age, studied in Switzerland twice, grew out of grunge, moved to Scotland and figured out feminism and never looked back.
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Mid-Week Memo: Punk Rock and Feminist
Bored of your lodgings smelling like Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina? Worry not. There’s a new scented candle in town, and it smells like Gwyneth Paltrow’s orgasm, and is conveniently called thus. A snip at $75 on Goop website, it continues the “punk rock and feminist” (her words) tradition of Paltrow selling smelly wax in the name of female empowerment.
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What Do I Talk About When I Talk About Feminism
I went back to Twitter recently, and a couple of days ago my face broke out in the most epic, angry acne. Emphasis on epic. Rather than considering it a perimenopausal hormone-situation, I blame the social media (as any adult would). And this time I brought supporting documents with me.
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