Y LEAD? Here’s why….
“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it...
View ArticleGuest Post: Her Name Was Lola….
Among my many favorite things, (which include bacon fries, anything Mark Gatiss has ever done, the word ‘phantasmagoria’ and theme parks, to name but a few) one that ranks rather highly is stories...
View ArticleGuest Post: Holy Smoke… it’s a woman
Sarah Flotel hosts the football video podcast Hot Scores. Recently she was invited to be a guest on Stan Collymore’s Sunday Talksport to discuss women in football and sexism. Here’s her take: This is a...
View ArticleBits n’ Giggles
It’s as predictable as politicians’ bluster and as productive as a cadaver, and it rears its indignant head whenever a woman complains about sexism in advertisement. It’s the “Men Are Victims Too!”...
View ArticleThe World Should Listen to Marilyn Waring
Perhaps the most distressing statistic emerging from the current economic crisis is that the suicide rate in Greece is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have risen by at least 40%. The Greek...
View ArticleCooking with Mother: kinky capers and stuffed mushrooms
A note from the editors: This is the first in a new regular series of posts, All About My Mother, in which Anti-room writers reflect on the women who made them the women they are today. Some are their...
View ArticleThe Nobel Peace Prize 2011
How wonderful to hear that the Nobel Committee has awarded the 2011 Peace Prize to three women who have made a huge contribution to improving conditions in their home countries and furthering the cause...
View ArticleMythogyny
I stumbled into a quandary in my first year of Uni. I was sharing a house with three other students – all male – who suddenly upped and left because I was so impossible to live with they had found a...
View ArticleOne man, four wives, 16 children, and a whole lotta love
Reality TV has foisted a great number of ugly things on us – step forward, Big Brother and Jersey Shore – but it still remains the best way to journey into somebody else’s life in a totally new way....
View ArticleConfessions of an incompetent slattern
Like many women, on an average day – in other words, pretty much every day – I don’t bother wearing make-up. I turn up for work with my blemishes unconcealed, my cheekbones uncontoured and my eyelashes...
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