Sense and Sexuality

by Fairy Cake

Well, girls. It looks like it’s just us and the Guardian against the world.

After another panic-attack inducing trip to the newsagents, I am unsurprised to see another shamelessly-homophobic article screaming out from the pages of a supposedly open-minded newspaper.  The most recent offender?  The Times, who published the story of Patrick Muirhead, entitled “The Day I Decided to Stop Being Gay” just over a week ago.  For those of you who haven’t read this trashy abomination…take a second… … Continue Reading

When Pigs Fly…

by Devil’s Food Cake

I’m generally the kind of person that believes you can’t really teach an old dog new tricks. Let’s be honest – some people just aren’t ever going to change their minds, and no matter how much I shout and scream and march and protest and argue, that won’t happen. I’m pretty sure I could float off the ground and have the light of a thousand suns shining out of my mouth, there will still be people who disagree. … Continue Reading

It’s all the rage

by Devil’s Food Cake

So Christmas is, technically, over. The turkey has been stuffed, the potatoes fluffed and roasted, the gravy and bread sauce stirred, and, of course, the whole lot’s been devoured in twenty minutes flat. Now while we all sit around and pat our bellies, watching TV or petting the dog or playing board games or whatever, let’s consider the events leading up to Christmas – specifically the events leading up to the announcement of the Christmas number one. … Continue Reading

Stripped bare

by Sticky Toffee Pudding

I read an intriguing article a little while back regarding the sexualisation of women by women. It was all rather reminiscent of Ariel Levy’s ‘Female Chauvinistic Pigs’ (a damn good read by the way) and it utterly confused me. … Continue Reading

Jeremy Clarkson strikes again

by Victoria Sponge

To the editor of the Times,

You are probably measuring the success of Jeremy Clarkson’s recent article on lesbian parents by the number of complaints you receive – in which case, congratulations, here’s another.… … Continue Reading

A mother always knows

by Sticky Toffee Pudding

It is my suspicion that some mothers belong to a secret underground network of ancient mystical knowledge, like a society of supernatural spies.  It is during the process of birth (ours, not theirs) that they are initiated. The epidural that so many of them receive is really nothing more than a DMT style hallucinogen that transports their minds to this mysterious land of knowledge. It is here that they make the ultimate sacrifice (their physique) in return for an everlasting abundance of information regarding their child. Because a mother always knows. Always. … Continue Reading

And it breaks my heart….

by Devil’s Food Cake

I consider myself a non-sentimental person. I don’t get swayed too easily by emotion and I’m not the sort that cries when I see a kitten (though I do love puppies). But certain things – and there’s no other way to say it – really move me. And one of those is definitely weddings. … Continue Reading

Reclaiming our rights?

by Devil’s Food Cake

I remember the first Reclaim the Night march I ever went on. It was exhilarating and brilliant and I loved every second of it. We marched from Trafalgar Square to the University of London Union, on streets lined with drunk male chauvinists screaming rape jokes, drowning them out with our chants and our songs. It was powerful. It was a cold, cold night, but something in my warm, feminist heart lit up strong enough that I couldn’t feel a thing. … Continue Reading

The last frontier…?

by Devil’s Food Cake

I was watching Boys Don’t Cry the other night with a friend of mine, and to be honest, I hate watching that film. It scares the crap out of me, worse than any horror movie, worse than any ghost story, more cutting than anything I’ve heard or seen or read. I used to make myself feel better by saying, well, that happened more than a decade ago – surely the youth of today are better educated or at least somewhat more tolerant. … Continue Reading

In living colour?

by Devil’s Food Cake

Newsflash from the world of celebrity, where every opinion is indispensable: apparently, according to Jeremy Clarkson, TV is obsessed with hiring ‘Black, Muslim Lesbians’. This is to balance out the heterosexual, white male surplus. Forget the fact that I generally think Jeremy Clarkson is a knob, what I’d really like to know is where all these black, Muslim lesbians are. That’s a show I’d definitely watch.

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