Natalie Cassidy Appreciation Society

Natalie Cassidy has been a bit of a martyr to the culture of snarkiness and body fascism that pervade our women’s magazines. When she made an exercise video a couple of years ago and lost a load of weight (viz. her head was unconvincingly photoshopped on top of a smaller woman’s body), they were all [...]

Champ of the week

Foxy antipodean actress Cate Blanchett validates knitters the world over with this awesome granny-square dress, worn to the opening of the Screen Worlds: The Story of Film, Television and Digital Culture exhibition in Melbourne this week. There is nothing that says “I dress how the hell I like, and screw you and your gossip columns” [...]

Why haven’t I posted on this blog for a while?

Why haven’t I posted on this blog for a while? I’ve been busy, that’s why. It’s not all beer and skittles fighting a one-person battle for equality armed with only a laptop and an internet connection, you know. Sometimes I have to go to work as well, and that’s no laughing matter. Also I have [...]

Lock up your Lambrini, everyone: it’s the Dolly Rockers

In the Spring of 2006, three young ladies by the name of Sophie, Lucie & Brooke made the mistake that thousands of young women make every year: they auditioned for X-Factor. They were young, fresh-faced, innocent, and could sing a bit, although their dancing was a bit ropey. (worse than mine, even). They made it [...]

She’s My Hero! : Emma Watson

Only 19 years old and already a millionaire, Watson is smart, beautiful, stylish, articulate, and talented. Ten years after she was chosen from thousands of other young hopefuls to play the part of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, she’s rich, is set to study at the ivy league university Brown in the US [...]

Lady GaGa: Hero or Villain?

Lady Gaga: who honestly knows what to think? Officially, she’s a singer and performer, but she also appears to relish in her role as a sort of professional talking point, a bizarre public figure who generates conversation by arriving at airports dressed in a leotard and outsize sunglasses, and by playing at Glastonbury from inside [...]

Happy birthday Li-Lo!

Twenty three today! Happy birthday Lindsay Lohan.

Joneswatch: there’s no gender pay gap! You’re all just being hysterical.

This weeks’ Joneswatch comes from the normally fanny-friendly The Guardian, in the form of this anti-factual article about the gender pay gap. With superb badly-informed comments like, “The Pay Gap is a well-known feminist lie” and “What businesses can afford to price in prejudice? A smart female exec who was paid too little because she [...]

She’s My Hero! : Jennifer Aniston

These days she’s more well-known for her private life than for her work, but lest we forget, Ms Aniston has provided us with years of laughter, and in the process has furnished herself with a great professional reputation and a reliably high-grossing name. Since her high-profile split with Brad “doesn’t know which side his bread’s [...]

She’s My Hero! : Jodie Marsh

Bit of an odd choice for a hero, some of you might think. And I know why you might think it. Everybody knows who Jodie Marsh is, and what she’s famous for. Those outrageous outfits she wears, for her voracious sexual appetite, for her spider-web of celebrity boyfriends and lovers, and for living her crazy [...]