Yesterday women in Egypt showed what Sisterhood can be about, taking to the streets of Cairo and calling out, "Tantawi stripped your women naked, come join us” and “Egyptian men, do not strip Egyptian women”. This is in support of the woman protester who was stripped to her bra and jeans and kicked and stamped on by members of the Egyptian army.
Today in the news women are insisting they won’t pay (via tax) for another woman’s vanity regarding the PIP implants, feigning disgust about Caroline Flack’s relationship with a 17 year old and calling the Femen manner of protest silly. It seems the Sisterhood is off track before it ever really got going.
Yesterday women in Egypt showed what Sisterhood can be about, taking to the streets of Cairo and calling out, "Tantawi stripped your women naked, come join us” and “Egyptian men, do not strip Egyptian women”. This is in support of the woman protester who was stripped to her bra and jeans and kicked and stamped on by members of the Egyptian army.
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left: silicone breast implant right: saline breast implant It seems xenophobes were right all along and the French and the British are not just different in nationality but we’re different species too. It’s a wonder there are any Anglo-French walking this earth and don’t even speak to me about Francophiles. Yesterday the French government issued a statement they would pay for women with PIP breast implants to have them removed. A spokesman for the government Valerie Pecresse said: “It is a matter of urgency that all women who have had these PIP implants are identified and the implants removed.” Over here in Britain the government has said any woman concerned about her breast implants should speak to the surgeon who originally operated on her, lalala. (I paraphrase) Courtesy of the National Pest Management Association This is, ultimately, a feminist site. So here’s the weekly In Defence of Hairy Legs etc. post. Scientists in Sheffield have brushed away* the popular belief that the less body hair, the more hygienic a person is. In fact body hair might be a deter bed bugs from biting. Using 29 volunteers Professor Michael Siva-Jothy, from Sheffield University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, observed bed bugs search for a place to feed on the shaven arms of the volunteers. When men who are married with children help out around the home and with children, their chance of divorce is lower than for men who do nothing.That’s the finding from research conducted through the London School of Economics and Political Science While my initial reaction was “no shit Sherlock”, there are still a huge number of people in this country who believe that the ideal family model is not just nuclear and heterosexual, but one of rigid conformity to certain gender roles: male breadwinner and female housewife. The latest smart phone app to cause a stir is the X-Ray augmented reality app for clothing retailer Moosejaw. Using either an iPad or smart phone camera with the Moosejaw catalogue images, users are granted ‘x-ray’ vision to see beneath the model’s Moosejaw puffa jackets and hoodies. So far the app has been downloaded 75,000 times in 5 weeks. Moosejaw credits the app with a 37% boost in sales. John. The Pilgrim. Oil painting. Undated Works by the artist formerly known as Augustus John’s sister have been discovered at Princeton University. The paintings, by Welsh artist Gwen John have been reliably identified by a British based art expert. The 23 paintings were unearthed by Reading University Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins, amongst papers bequeathed to Princeton by symbolist poet Arthur Symons. John had given the work to Symons in 1920 after a meeting in Paris. Gwen John rarely exhibited her art, for her to present these paintings to the Symons indicates that she regarded these paintings amongst her strongest work. The paintings, amongst Symons’ papers, had been gathering dust in an accordion file since Princeton received the bequeathed papers in 1951. Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins happened upon them by chance whilst working as a senior research fellow. A consultation on the definition of domestic violence is being launched by the government today. The main point of discussion is whether or not the definition should include the term ‘coercive control’. In addition to psychological abuse the government will be looking at widening the definition to include under-18s The current definition of government definition of domestic violence is: “any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse [psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional]4 between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality.” The family planning charity BPAS is preparing for the Christmas party season. The charity says women may find it harder to obtain the Morning After Pill over the season, instead BPAS are offering to post the pill. Women will have to fill in an online form, speak to a nurse and the content of their uterus is in the hands of the Royal Mail or courier. As with all projects that allow women to take control of their reproductive rights this scheme has its critics. The campaign has been described as a ‘cynical marketing exercise’. Business Studies was not available at my school but I am at a loss here. How is giving away an expensive medication free to those a nurse has deemed suitable could be cynical or a marketing exercise. Get out the party hats and the paper streamers, free museum and gallery entry is 10 years old today! The history of museum entrance fees is long and tangled. Many of the large national museums were built by Victorians, and were usually free to enter. Smaller local museums were supported by local taxes, and had a flat entrance fee of one penny – they were supposed to be accessible. I didn’t notice it at first. Every time there’s a change in policy, or an opinion poll comes out, or a song reaches number 1 in the charts someone remarks on mothers and what Mumsnet thinks. So Gove and Cameron’s accusation of the unions plotting against mums kind of washed over me. My brain has kind of filed this kind of mum discussion next to tirades ending in ‘won’t someone think of the children?’ These are stored next to the dull annoyance I feel every time I see “That’s why mum’s go to Iceland”. Unfair? Yes. Obviously we should be thinking of both mums and children and families. However as a single, childless woman it often seems I count for nothing. Let’s save that point for another time. Instead let’s focus on the crazed short-sightedness of Gove and Cameron. Gove’s claims that the unions, “want mothers to give up a day's work or pay for expensive childcare” is beyond bizarre. |
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