Tag: societal norms

10 minutes to explore me…

I told you about Project Love in my last post 🙂 well along with considering food and exercise, we are also given other tasks to do. These are mind tasks, ones which make you think, particularly about yourself and your perceptions of yourself. This week’s task was to take 10 minutes and consider some questions…… Continue reading 10 minutes to explore me…

What to do about “problem areas”

Accept that problem areas are not a real thing, they are a societal construct designed to keep women subjugated, paranoid and spending money on unnecessary products. You weren’t really expecting me to tell you what to do about problem areas in a quick fix sort of way were you? Well, actually, I will give you…… Continue reading What to do about “problem areas”

Extra: Why I joined the Women’s Equality Party

Or what it is like to be the only angry woman in the room a lot of the time and why it is necessary. Also why I am really grateful to my parents! I will start with the why I am a feminist and why I had trouble with the concept… The concept and the…… Continue reading Extra: Why I joined the Women’s Equality Party

Just because it has been this way for centuries…

doesn’t mean it has to carry on this way! In the Victorian era, the ideal body shape for women was so impossible that corsets were worn that some times broke ribs and always squeezed so tightly that women’s internal organs were displaced. In the 1920s the ideal body type for women was so “boy-like” that they bound…… Continue reading Just because it has been this way for centuries…