Don’t worry. This is a normal way to feel, because women are taught by society that all that they have to offer is attractiveness, and also that men are entitled to partake of that attractiveness. So even though harassment is horrible, because it’s so ingrained to ‘just take it as a compliment’, it’s totally natural…

I would totally go there. Or work there! Either or. And I bet a lot of women would, too, if it meant not being patronised or overcharged.

Besides being exclusively marketed at women?

Yes, it’s always a shame to realise that to do a half updo you need to have a massive amount of hair :-( FUCK YOU ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Ha, I totally hear you. I used to have cute, flirty short hair and had to grow it out when I started gaining weight to balance my hips out.

Clapham is one of the few areas that I’m not overly familiar with! (And for that exact reason kind of want to move to.) But I know that they have a great fancy dress shop I always go to, and if you aren’t already familiar with them, you should look up a band called Squeeze-in my opinion the best London band ever, and…

Near Hyde Park Corner, The Grenadier is the UKs most haunted pub and a lovely cosy spot to spend a few hours, in a gorgeous mews street, like being in the countryside in the city. I come from a town in London called Harrow (Harrow-on-the-Hill on the tube) and at the top of the hill is a church with a spire that’s…

I feel like you’re the only other person who noticed this. If I thought I’d had sex with a guy, and then it turned out that what he actually did was penetrate me with a foreign object (by which I mean an object that is not permanently attached to his body; not like a penile prosthetic) without my knowledge and…

I’ll back you up

I love, love, LOVE it when Jez does posts like this, it gives me so many new books to read and things to think about. Keep them coming!

I think it’s mostly from pouring meat fat down the sink, so in gravy and stuff. I know it gets way worse at Christmas.

This is my winner, I love your pun rapidity.

SECONDED

Whether a girl is annoyed by bad pickups doesn’t depend on whether or not she has a boyfriend.

Damn, girl.

I know right, had to have some Implanon hardware installed because I am a SEX MACHINE

That is epic.

How would you feel about people surrounding you wearing the headscarf where they wouldn’t usually in this situation? I’d be interested in doing something like this but I’m worried it would look like I was ‘othering’ muslims, or making Islam look like a gimmick?

I really agree with you. To me, Polanski is just scum because he admitted guilt and then fled the sentence. If at any point he had gone back and done his time I could have got on board. But how do you justify working with someone like that? Or supporting art that he made while evading capture for child rape? Like,…

I absolutely did not understand the hype around Midnight in Paris, if that had been written by a woman it would have been instantly dismissed as total fluff BECAUSE IT WAS.