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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Caitlin Moran |
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I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
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Caitlin Moran |
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All that summer, as I end up in his flat over and over, drinking his wine, having his bad pervy sex, and then lying on the bed, talking about Auden's influence on Morrissey, I feel like we're in a huge, ongoing surreal session of the Post-it Game, in which Rich has stuck a Post-it on my head on which is written either "My girlfriend" or "Not my girlfriend," and I am having to guess which it is with a series of questions that he can only ans..
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Caitlin Moran |
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e56b575
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Alla andra kvinnor "mixar och matchar" och "kompletterar sin basgarderob". Och jag? Min favvotrend ar att "mixa de renaste plaggen"."
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fashion
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Caitlin Moran |
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1d29854
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after all, it will be hard to oppress a generation who've been brought up on pop-stars with fire coming out of their tits.
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Caitlin Moran |
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It was the 'Are the boys doing it?' basis on which I finally decided I was against women wearing burkas. Yes, the idea is that it protects your modesty, and ensures that people regard you as a human being, rather than just a sexual object (...) But who are you being protected from? Men. And who - so long as you play by the rules, and wear the correct clothes - is protecting you from the men? Men. And who is it that is regarding you as a sex..
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feminism
modesty-mindsets
objectification-of-women
oppressive-body-coverings
misogyny
patriarchy
oppression
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Caitlin Moran |
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Shut up, Ed--the world below us has turned into a map. A real map! The woods look like the "Woodland: Deciduous" markings of Ordnance Survey. It is just as they drew it! Who knew! Who knew you could put the whole world on paper, after all! The artists were right! This is so reassuring!"
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Caitlin Moran |
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Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: "Run."
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Caitlin Moran |
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1) Leopardskin is always a neutral. 2) You can get away with nearly anything if you wear the thing with black opaque tights and boots. 3) Contrary to popular opinion, a belt is often not a good friend to a lady. Indeed, in many circumstances, it acts merely as a visual aid to help the onlooker settle the question: "Which half is fatter - the bottom or the top?" 4) Bright red is a neutral. 5) Sellotape is NOT strong enough to mend a hole in ..
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shopping
womanhood
fashion
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Caitlin Moran |
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motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.
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feminism
women
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Caitlin Moran |
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I'm neither "pro-women" nor "anti-men." I'm just "Thumbs up for the six billion."
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Caitlin Moran |
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Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely.
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individuality
women
individualism
girls
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Caitlin Moran |
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But the problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Evenings never end - they just, without you noticing, turn into tomorrow.
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Caitlin Moran |
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In any just world, I should have been able to kick the front room door open, like Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, and shout "OH YEAH. THAT HYMEN'S GONE. DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT," and then run round the room, getting high fives from my parents and siblings."
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Caitlin Moran |
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What are you doing with your face?" Krissi asked, as I made myself a cheese sandwich in the kitchen. Having been away for two nights, I had a sudden, giddying perspective on just how much margarine seemed permanently smeared on our worktops. This whole room was a health risk. "What do you mean?" I asked--increasing the smugness as I sliced the cheese. "Your face--it's clearly telling me to slap it," Krissi said, staring at me. "It's communi..
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Caitlin Moran |
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Rock 'n' roll is a terrible babysitter, baby.
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Caitlin Moran |
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e32ccb0
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However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority ..
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woman
decisions
children
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Caitlin Moran |
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When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.
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Caitlin Moran |
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As I have said, in the same way that you can tell if some sexism is happening to you by asking the question "Is this polite, or not?" you can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, "And are the men doing this, as well?"
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Caitlin Moran |
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And so I have brought this pint for him--a proper Irish pint, from Ireland. This pint--brought through the sky, and over the sea. I am finally buying my old man a good pint of Guinness. As I walk through the door, holding the glass--kids throwing themselves at me, one already crying--I hold it out to Dadda, and tell him to sip it. He tears the cling film off--looking at me, confused--and then takes a sip. "Christ. That's flat," he says." ..
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Caitlin Moran |
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us not forget Charlie Watts punching Mick Jagger after Jagger called him "my drummer." "You're my singer," Watts snarled, before adjusting his cuffs, and walking away."
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Caitlin Moran |
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It seemed to me that this was the real reason people wanted to fuck so much. To get here. To get to this tiny, quiet place where there was nothing else to do but be with each other. Just to be two humans who had for a short while stopped wanting. This is the beautiful, final destination. The end of things.
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Caitlin Moran |
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And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead.
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Caitlin Moran |
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I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse. It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
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Caitlin Moran |
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It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident
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humour
feminist
funny
secret
growing-up
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Caitlin Moran |
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I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four chance of being Bill Murray.
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Caitlin Moran |
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But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "It all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish." The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss."
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Caitlin Moran |
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when cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible.
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Caitlin Moran |
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In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult books out of the library, without having to borrow my parents'cards. And that means I can get secret books out. Dirty books. Books with sex in.
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Caitlin Moran |
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I feel excitingly...free. Things were going to happen to me last night that I did not like - and I stopped them. I have never prevented my own doom before. I have never stood in the path of certain unhappiness and told myself - lovingly, like a mother to myself - "No! This unhappiness will not suit you! Turn around and go another way!" I have previously been resigned to any and all fates ahead - mute and compliant, worried about seeming we..
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Caitlin Moran |
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Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.
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drinking
conception
parenting
children
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Caitlin Moran |
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I guess the men of Iceland will have to get used to the idea that women are not for sale," ~ Gudrun Jonsdottir"
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Caitlin Moran |
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Man, I was on the shepherd's pie last night like you wouldn't believe. I had, like, MASH in my EYEBROWS by 10pm. I was on a total mince rush!
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Caitlin Moran |
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After all, everyone is bisexual after 11pm.
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Caitlin Moran |
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I've read de Sade, and Anais Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure-- pain.
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pleasure
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Caitlin Moran |
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Babies being "given" to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless."
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Caitlin Moran |
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Traditional feminism would tell you that we should concentrate on the big stuff like pay inequality, female circumcision in the Third World, and domestic abuse. And they are, obviously, pressing and disgusting and wrong, and the world cannot look itself squarely in the eye until they're stopped. But all those littler, stupider, more obvious day-to-day problems with being a woman are, in many ways, just as deleterious to women's peace of min..
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Caitlin Moran |
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At its best - and I love a nice frock - fashion is a game. But for women, it's a compulsory game, like netball. And you can't get out of it by faking a period. I know. I've tried.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Solo cuando la mayoria de los habitantes de este planeta esten convencidos de que se estan muriendo, cada minuto que pasa, empezaremos a comportarnos como seres conscientes, racionales y compasivos. Porque, aunque el atractivo de <> sea grande, el terror de caer, imparablemente, en la nada absoluta es mucho mas efectivo.
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feminism
feminist
humor
feminismo-radical
feminista
feminismo
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Caitlin Moran |
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The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something else - just as we are. The working classes do it differently. We are the next thing. We power popular culture - just as, before, we powered the Industrial Revolution. The past is theirs, but the future's mine. They're all out of time.
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Caitlin Moran |
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So here is the quick way of working out if you're a feminist. Put your hand in your underpants. a. Do you have a vagina? and b. Do you want to be in charge of it? If you said "yes" to both, then congratulations! You're a feminist."
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Caitlin Moran |
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The more women argue, loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Show a girl a pioneering hero--Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc--and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.
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Caitlin Moran |