Archive for the 'women' Category
Every one of them is someone’s daughter
Yazan: Sara | 31 May 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: women
I was driving my 13 year old daughter to the school bus stop when the dulcet tones of Radio 4′s newsreader announced that the police had found body parts belonging to Suzanne Blamires. Without thinking, I glanced at my daughter sitting in the passenger seat and burst into tears. I imagined the mothers of Suzanne Blamires, Susan [...]
Vote Clegg: get Maggie’s support?
Yazan: Sara | 26 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers, Nick Clegg, women
Yesterday both myself and Mark Pack blogged about the Daily Mail and other tabloids paying paparazzi to stalk Miriam Gonzalez Durantez as she shopped at Rigby & Peller. Today it appears that the Mail have had second thoughts and pulled the article from their web site – only to replace it with something even more odious – a [...]
Rape, responsibility, blame and feminism
Yazan: Sara | 16 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, women
If you go out and leave your front door open, are you asking to be burgled? If you leave your laptop on the passenger seat of a parked car, is it your fault if the computer is stolen? If you get into bed naked with a man who fancies you and encourage him to have sex [...]
The ‘progressive left’ puts its misogyny on show
Yazan: Sara | 12 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: women
Just as the General Synod seemed to be talking some sense on the issues of women, gay clergy and science, along comes Revd Mark Oden to spoil things. The curate at St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks used last Sunday’s sermon to call on wives to be quiet and demure, and blamed modern women for the breakdown [...]
Our strange attitude to breasts
Yazan: Sara | 09 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: radio, women
According to an interview given by journalist Rosie Millard to Mother and Baby magazine, John Humphrys was once served coffee ’spiked’ with her breast milk. Characteristically, Humphrys snappily downplayed the issue, saying ‘It’s the first I have ever heard of it. It’s not really spiking … I very much doubt that I would have noticed or [...]
