Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Celebrating cinema's most kick-ass action heroines

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Women! Have you been struggling to write your shopping lists with those heavy manly biro's?


Luckily for you those clever men at BiC have made some especially for you.

Here's are some of the customer reviews from Amazon:

I allowed my wife to write the grocery list with one of my pens. Shortly thereafter she went out and bought a bunch of flannel shirts, cut the sleeves off and grew a mullet. While she was writing her feminist manifesto, I secretly switched out the man pen with a BiC For Her. She's now back to baking apple pies, vacuuming in heels, and popping bennies in order to keep her girlish figure... like a proper American gal. Thank you BiC!


Oh. My. God. I've been doing it all wrong. There was me thinking I didn't need to worry about whether my writing implement sufficiently reflected my gender. Thank you so much Bic for showing me the error of my ways. Perhaps Bic will also bring out a new range of pink (or purple) feminine spanners, screwdrivers, electric drills and angle grinders so that I can carry out my job as a bicycle mechanic without further embarrassing myself? Luckily my male colleagues have managed to keep their disapproval of my use of their masculine tools to themselves. I'm so ashamed. And re-educated as to my place in society. Thanks again Bic!


I could never write until now because I'm such a thick little Princess that I refused to. I just drew pictures of my pink little bike, with the lilac streamers. I thought I'd just grow up and let a big manly man come and marry/save me. Now I've found this pen, I've learned to write. It's so pretty, with it's comfortable grip, not like the razor like surface on ordinary mens pens. It will help me list all my household chores and record my calorie consumption in my diary. Who knows? Maybe it will give me the confidence to take the stabilisers off my bike.


Unfortunately not all the feedback has been quite so positive:

I bought this pen (in error, evidently) to write my reports of each day's tree felling activities in my job as a lumberjack. It is no good. It slips from between my calloused, gnarly fingers like a gossamer thread gently descending to earth between two giant redwood trunks.


When I saw these I just had to have them, so I asked my Husband to buy them for me. He refused, as he said that owning a pen might make me Think, and then have Ideas Of My Own. Then I might start to Write, which would take time away from my wifely duties such as Cooking, Cleaning, and Bearing Children. Of course he was Absolutely Right, none of these tasks require a pen, and so I have to give these one star.


I tried these on a whim, and I have to say I wasn't very impressed. The applicator mechanism is far too fiddly, and the plastic tampon inside far too thin (not to mention uncomfortable and non-absorbant) - I'm sure there must be a knack to using them, but I couldn't find it. They also stained my knickers blue for some reason. I really wanted to like these, but it's back to pads for me.


Thursday, 9 August 2012

If you insist on objectifying female athletes, at least learn how sports bras work


While most of the attention given to the male Olympic athletes is focused on their athletic performance, when it comes to female athletes a large portion of the media is concerned solely with their appearance.

No stranger to the problems of being a woman in environment where females are routinely seen as mere sex objects for the pleasure of males, YouTuber Jenna Marbles takes this opportunity to educate those who seem to have no idea of the effect sports bras or swimsuits have on the female physique.

"Are they flattening their boobs or are they just flat chested? You have no idea what that person actually looks like"

NSFW language

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Topless Olympic protesters arrested outside City Hall


Ukrainian women's right group Femen staged a topless protest against the perceived support being given to "Bloody" Islamist regimes, by the I.O.C. allowing them to compete in the Olympics.

(NSFW due to uncensored nudity)

Sunday, 13 March 2011

Two clever videos to make you ponder female equality

There are lots of videos on the internet trying to inform us of important issues or make us consider problems within our society that we'd rather just avoid. It takes something a bit special to stand out from that ever growing crowd and I think these two do so quite well.



Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Are You 'Geek' Enough For Her?

The fantasy of millions of nerdy man-boys - myself included - is a a real life woman as geeky as them.

But what if she was geekier?


Be careful what you wish for...

Maybe this guy is up to the challenge?