When I was at university, an unexplained dumping left me feeling hurt and confused. Thankfully, shortly after that, I spent an evening with good friends who allowed, no encouraged me to go over things, explore my feelings and let it all out. For a short while, I wished I’d never got together with the guy in the first place – after all, my sights had been set on someone else the night we got together and it was he who pounced on me. However, then I realised that I didn’t rea...
BITCH:LIFE
04 Aug 2010 15:30 GMT
Earlier this week I was out running some errands around lunchtime and decided to stop at a local market to pick up a few things. As I turned the corner to the next block I literally stopped dead in my tracks. Oh. My. God. I’ve forgotten my environmentally conscious canvas grocery bag that saves trees and cost me ten bucks. At this point I’m not sure which disappointed me more, the fact that I would be having to sacrifice the lives of trees to use a paper bag, or that I spent...
BITCH:LIFE
03 Aug 2010 18:00 GMT
Earlier this month, Tesco unveiled their latest lunch extravaganza. Dubbed ‘Lasandwich’, this outstanding creation was inspired by the creator, Laura Fagan’s student days. It is, wait for it, a slab of Lasagne nestling inbetween two slices of white bread. And it’s not ciabatta – the bread they are using is the lowest common denominator bread you can find. And the lasagne is not Mama’s finest either. From all reports, the sandwich shocks the tastebuds into oblivion.
BITCH:LIFE
02 Aug 2010 12:23 GMT
How much do you “know” about the differences in brain chemistry and function between females and males? Studies are reported in the media every week claiming men use their brains one way and women another. We intuitively think that seems likely, and we accept the findings because they’re scientific. So, based on what we know about the differences, we look at children and think “well, obviously she loves pink because she’s a girl and that study said that women are drawn to bright colours”, or ...
BITCH:LIFE
30 Jul 2010 17:30 GMT
Men, if any of you are reading this I’d suggest you stop right now as I will be talking about woman’s monthlies and blood, blood, vaginas and blood, or as it more correct, vaginal blood! Scared you away yet?Now ladies, we all have them once a month and they are a down right pain in the arse...or the vagina if we are to be factually correct. I hate mine... it hurts, I get cramps like bitch, I get irritable and moody and sometimes I don’t get irritable and moody but I have an excuse to b...
BITCH:LIFE
29 Jul 2010 09:15 GMT
We all know the situation – someone ends up single and finds themselves swamping with offerings of hugs and sympathy, and perhaps a healthy dose of pity about the fact that they have to endure the trails and tribulations of day to day life all by their lonesome. This is brilliant when you are going through a break-up, and all you want is a shoulder to cry on and someone to feed you biscuits and pass numerous cups of tea in your direction. However, if you are past that stage, then you k...
BITCH:LIFE
23 Jul 2010 16:00 GMT
Guardian columnist and journalist Zoe Williams is famed for her cynicism and feminism, two things I generally respect and enjoy. So it’s no surprise that this book contains ...
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23 Jul 2010 14:00 GMT
If you’d have tuned in on Friday to Channel 4’s documentary “Girls on the Pull” expecting to see a group of girls out on the town being subjected to cheesy chat up lines by a bunch of lads you’d have been sorely disappointed. Instead you would have been greeted by three women talking very bravely a...
BITCH:LIFE
22 Jul 2010 17:00 GMT
It may come as a shock to those of you who know me as writer, designer and pop culturalist extraordinaire to discover that I am actually a mother of one year old twin girls in my spare time. I know, and with such a lithe nubile physique, I don't know how I do it myself. Eva and Mia, my precious bundles of double trouble are perfect, hilarious, messy, and all mine up until the day they decide they didnt ask to be born, life is unfair and they up sticks to find themselves in some far flung corn...
BITCH:LIFE
21 Jul 2010 16:30 GMT
According to the splendid BBC television series The Supersizers Go Victorian, 150 years ago respectable women were expected to bedecorative, demure and uninterested in sex or food. Thankfully, being squeezed intocorsets on a daily basis must have helped to suppress their appetite for at least oneof thos...
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16 Jul 2010 10:00 GMT