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A Blog about Women's Rights, TV & cinema reviews, politics, social change
and pop culture seen through the eyes of a feminist.

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What Does it Really Mean?

Many studies have shown that stay-home mums who have kids aged between 5-12, have a punishing daily 14-hour / 98 hours a week / seven day...

The problem of Misogyny in GAME OF THRONES

"... They are nothing more than props. Interchangeable, nameless, faceless orifices that men enter at their convenience, because they’ve...

Rituals and Rings - That Old Marriage Trap - Part 3

Maybe those marriages wouldn’ t have lasted for so long, if the little grandmothers had a little money in their name... Love, romance,...

Beauty Works - Ageing is Not For Sissies - Part I

Digital artists are recruited in order to eliminate such “flaws” from actresses, keeping that face “bankable” and the illusion (and...

Wedding Gowns & Lies - That Old Marriage Trap – Part 2

In the words of Cruella de Vil: “We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease!” Isn’t it interesting that in pop culture,...

Dear Married Women

Sometimes it is about living without putting all your expectations about your happiness, well-being and comfort, on someone else’ s...

Made to Measure~ The Dystopia is near - Part III ~

Their very nature, their very anatomy becomes the enemy that needs to be fought, controlled, altered, “Homogenised”, “assembly-lined”, in...

The Cold Reality of Numbers~ The Dystopia is near - Part II ~

...men are really outraged, because a single movie theatre in Austin, Texas, “violated their rights” when it decided to do a women-only...

The Handmaid’ s Tale – A Review

“Keep your shit together”, she keeps saying to herself, as she recites the woman-hating words along with the rest of them: “Her fault!...

Dear Men – Part I

…unless you look like Brad Pitt (and I don’ t mean in “Moneyball”, I mean in “The Mexican”!); and unless you look like George Clooney...