Recently, it has behoved modish magazines to print interviews with young women, who explain that their career as strippers is paying their way through university. This is thought to pretty much end an...
Porque el hecho de que una pareja heterosexual contrate a una señora de la limpieza se considera una traición al feminismo es algo que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza, a no ser que estés convencido de que...
Pero si tiene que haber una quinta ola de feminismo, espero que se distinga de todas las anteriores por que las mujeres se enfrenten a las dificultades, la desconexión y las tonterías de ser una mujer...
Not all of them say ‘You’re shit!’ – some of them say ‘You’re great!’, but in a way, that’s worse. Because when lots of other people have said ‘You’re shit!’, you feel you have a duty to tell the peop...
Ninguém jamais alegou, nem por um instante, que homens sem filhos deixaram passar em branco algum aspecto vital de sua existência e que por isso ficaram mais pobres e aleijados.
Mi olyan rossz a királylányságban? Nos, személyes tapasztalatból tudom, hogy amitől felnőtt éveimben a legnagyobb megkönnyebbülést és szabadságot kaptam végül, az volt, hogy egyszer s mindenkorra felh...
Mert az emberek pontosan ugyanazért zabálnak, amiért isznak, dohányoznak, kefélnek mániákusan és drogoznak. Hogy tisztázzam a dolgokat, zabálás alatt itt nem az egyszerű, örömteli torkosságot értem –...
Kite spends three minutes trying to calm me down - 'Dutch! Dutch!' - and then just hugs me with his huge arms, so I am completely wrapped up, and inside him, like an owl inside a hollow tree. This is...
I’m learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn’t observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you’re...
In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult book...
In any just world, I should have been able to kick the front room door open, like Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, and shout OH YEAH. THAT HYMEN’S GONE. DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT, and then run round th...
In 2010, Iceland – with a lesbian prime minister, and a parliament which is 50 per cent female – became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reason...
I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I’ve read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It’s one of only three plans I have. I
I will work out exactly how - with my no money, no money at all, until I actually receive my first, dawdling pay-cheque - I will get to Birmingham later. Perhaps Birmingham will, in the next week, mov...
I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four c...
I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman - as I am. As I always am- you'd see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho do...
I don't want him to pity me. I don't want him to see what I look like when I do something for the first time. I don't want anyone watching me change. I will do all my changing in private. In public I...
I do understand why women started to reject the word feminism. It ended up being invoked in so many bafflingly inappropriate contexts that—if you weren’t actually aware of the core aims of feminism an...
I am thrilled by the idea of killing myself. It seems like such a gratifyingly noble thing to do. A monster has come to town—me—and there is only one hero who can kill it: me.
Hazaérek, és ott sírok az ajtó előtt. Őszintén szólva a ház túlzsúfolt a síráshoz. Már kipróbáltam odabenn – hüppögések közepette magyarázza az ember valakinek, hogy miért sír, aztán a felénél bejön m...