Women and Men in The West – regardless of their upbringing or education or politics… or of how well-read they are often don’t realise how different the paradigm is for girls and women (and the men in their lives) when it comes to equality and gender issues in the most developed and marganalised communities in […]
It’s about being HUMAN
Bonnie Greer I love you. You just said it all on Channel 4 News My wee readership know that my blogging tries to adopt the Quakerly approach. Usually. I think and think and ponder and think. Then sleep. Then snore. Then drool. Then refuse to wash the pillowcases. Then snap at the kids and sulk […]
The MINX hit the Media – Thanks to Radio 4
Last week that marvellous and historical comic THE BEANO asked mine (and me) to explain on primetime BBC RADIO 4’s ‘Saturday Live’ as part of the PR surrounding it’s 75th anniversary. My wee gal is only 8 but seemed to steal the show – as she explained why and how THE BEANO got her to […]
The Man Wants The Tan….
and the teeth…and tiny waist/long legs/big boobs. The airbrushed image of unachievable, to-die for (literally) female perfection (well – its still THIS century’s fad. Who knows what hoops we will be expected to jump through in 2050?) A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Called ‘One Day I May Choose To Have Children And They […]
Top Shelf with Small Elf
“Mummy why has that lady got her bare bum stuck in the air?” This was the reaction of a certain 4 year old when faced with one of the more unsavoury tabloid front covers. To be fair to the woman in question, her bent over backside which pointed at the camera actually wasn’t bare. If […]
Laugh? I was choked (or was I nearly strangled?)
Scene: Driving around Skipton, Yorkshire – trying to find a parking space. Radio 4 blaring out. We are discussing ‘those pics’ of Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi. Him: Well, they say of course, that Nick Clegg gave a really unprofessional answer. Regardless of the truth of those photos. He shouldn’t have attempted to answer it […]
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