So I should read more books by women, especially women of color, I just shouldn’t talk about it or tell anyone I’m doing it, which would include encouraging others to do it.

Can we please stop pretending that Saudi Arabia is not a truly horrible place to live, with many restrictions and incredibly harsh punishment? Please? Because no matter how brainwashed the higher class or ex-pats may be, the fact remains that for lower class women it is absolutely abhorrent.

I recently finished season 2 of Broadchurch. One of my favorite things about it was a fabulous romantic scene with an older actress. It struck me as I watched it not only how sweet the scene was, but also how incredibly rare. Outside of Diane Keaton vehicles of the last decade, when do older women get to be romantic…

The young men aren't much better, I watched Ex Machina over the weekend and I'd be shocked to learn that there was a woman in any kind of decision making capacity on that project.

I admit I haven’t really paid attention to her acting in any other movie but Working Girl, but that movie is a classic because of her role in it.

The key is that we need more women on the production side of things. The wet dreams of a bunch of old men, jonesing for a young chickie on the side, should not be the primary thing we see in the movies.

And don’t even get me started on the even worse problems for women of color in the industry. Blah.

Saudi Arabia sounds like the bastion of liberal thought when you put it that way

Nothing feels sexier than being allowed to leave the domecile!

As a Muslim woman who has never worn hijab and never will I don’t really understand this. Isn’t covering up supposed to prove your modesty and keep you from attracting attention? How does a crystal embellished tent do that? Just one of the many ways in which religious people pretend to follow tradition while doing…

Except on one side of the coin you are much more likely to be raped and killed.

I don’t think that’s it at all. But I think people need to stop pussyfooting around sensitive cultural issues out of fear of being insensitive or politically incorrect, and Europe needs more programmes like the one in Norway that provides courses for recently arrived immigrant men on what is and isn’t acceptable in…

So you think that women are treated the same in say, a state like Utah or Louisiana as they are in Somalia, Morocco or Afghanistan?

Except, among “right-wing” men rape is relatively uncommon in comparison to the immigrants discussed in the story above.

That’s another problem in and of itself but just because that issue exists, doesn’t mean street harassment isn’t a huge problem in Middle Eastern/Arab countries. And not just there. I once witnessed a group of boys swarm a rickshaw carrying a couple of white women in India when it was stopped in traffic, and they…

The right wing is latching onto this as a pretext to discriminate against all Arab immigrants and asylum seekers. And that’s fucked up. But that doesn’t make these men’s backgrounds entirely irrelevant either because this was an organised attack and because if you’ve ever traveled to the Middle East or North Africa,…

Are you more concerned about the actual event or its geopolitical implications?

Reachingggggg.

No. Being proud of her own success - at her career and at not getting pregnant - is not an implied criticism of other women.

Yes, how dare she, as a woman, be multi-dimensional and have multiple thoughts at once. shame.

She seems to be on a Jolie style trajectory of becoming more political and outspoken as she gains more power and I’m kind of loving it. I’d be shocked if she took it as far, but it looks like she’s having the same “maybe I should do something with all this attention I’m getting” lightbulb moment.