December 2011
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Ten things I wrote (but you probably didn't read)...
Mostly because a) they weren’t published online or b) I didn’t talk about them here. My top picks from my 2011 paid work… with some end of year reflections thrown in for good measure.
The New Sexual Double Standard - CLEO, March 2011. Hooked to one of my all time most popular blog posts, this story explored the radical notion that (*gasp*) men don’t want sex all the time....
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On living “the beautiful life”
“Lately, I’ve been obsessed with living a more beautiful life,” I commented to a friend a couple of weeks ago when I was visiting New York.
“Maybe it’s because you just got married,” she suggested, presumably imagining some combination of designer shoes, cross stitch, DIY and freshly baked scones.
But no, I told her, it didn’t have anything to do with getting married at all. Nor did it have...
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“she was also fascinated by non-literary Internet it-girls like Cory Kennedy and...”
– The new model for Literary Seductress is Part Feminist, Part ‘Famewhore’ and All Pseudonymous.
This may be true, but it also made me sad.
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Guest post: Body love
This is a guest post by Muireann Campbell, first published at her brilliant blog Bangs and a Bun.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an article in The Evening Standard that had three female athletes done up to the nines (the go to fashion shoot for female sportswomen – ‘let’s make them ‘girly’ and ‘pretty’!). All three of them are 2012 hopefuls, at the top of their game. I look up to female athletes...
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The best of the rest of the internet
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Veronica Grow’s adorable and accessible (yet thought provoking!) introduction to race relations, A Kit For Uptight White People.
Chally tackles the bizarre media coverage of the severe maiming of beautiful 23-year-old Lauren Scruggs, who fractured her skull and severed her hand when she accidentally walked into the propeller of a small...
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She who tries, wins
A few weeks ago, the best thing that has ever happened in my life happened to me: I sold my book. To a publisher I joked about to my nearest and dearest towards the end of the proposal process in the same way I might joke about going out on a date with, I don’t know, George Clooney.
That is to say, something that would be totally awesome if it happened, but is so awesome that you don’t ever...
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"Is there a failure more immediately public than...
I related to Autumn Whitefield-Madrano’s post on failure and beauty a couple of weeks back on all manner of levels.
There was her failure of her first driving test (Autumn at 16, me at 18), which both of us had assumed that as “smart, level-headed, ‘good’” girls, it couldn’t be that hard to pass. (Turns out were wrong.) There was the idea – which I’ll write about later this week – that success...
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The Sex Myth: Book interviewees wanted
I’m currently working on the “normality” chapter of my book, The Sex Myth: where our ideas about what’s normal come from, how they’ve changed over time, and how they impact us as individuals and as a society.
And if you’ve ever felt like, when it comes to sex and relationships, you’re just not “normal”, I’d like to speak to you.
Whether you started having sex “too early” or you haven’t had it at...
