Quit telling me to feel beautiful
Over the past ten years or so, I’ve tried to be patient with the Dove ‘real beauty‘ ad campaigns. For instance, Dove’s ‘diverse bodies’ campaign featured smooth-skinned, conventionally attractive women […]
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4 ways to have the most feminist flight ever
Okay, so I’m sitting here at the airport, killing time before my flight home to NJ, and I just realized how anti-feminist flying can be. I mean, seriously, think about […]
Quit bad-mouthing teenage girls
So the other day I was in a situation where I overheard a male acquaintance scolding his teen daughter. It was early in the morning, and he was annoyed that […]
Feminist nanny needs your advice!
Okay, so, obviously I haven’t written in a while – between working three jobs, trying to keep up with dance classes, and starting to train as a dance instructor, plus […]
How can a biscuit be wicked? Five reasons to stop calling foods “bad”
This story starts, as so many stories do, with some biscuits. That’s cookies, to my American readers. Milk chocolate digestives, to be exact. You see, I ate about a dozen […]
Five for 5/5
Ooh, a date that reads the same in English and American! Whether you’re enjoying the bank holiday or just getting up for work, here’s some light Monday-morning reading. 1. Not […]
Enough with giving women a hard time over #nomakeupselfies
Last week, I clicked on an article titled “Enough with the cancer ‘awareness’ selfie stunts,” knowing that there was a good chance it would annoy me. Guess what – I […]
Guest Post! On body modification and plastic surgery
So, I am SUPER excited about this week’s post. It’s the first ever guest post I’m featuring on my blog (but hopefully not the last!), and it’s by someone I […]
When did you start shaving your legs?
You know what the world needs? A YouTube series of advertisements featuring a ten-year-old girl who blogs about shaving her legs. Luckily, Gillette Venus Canada has stepped up to the […]
Can I straighten my hair and still call myself a feminist?
So today I did something that I do once or twice a year – something that most people probably wouldn’t consider terribly feminist; I went to get a “Japanese straight […]
I was a high-school feminist 