I did - and still do - a loose approximation of The Zone. You can get the book from the library so it costs nothing. Once you get used to it it is very easy. When I did it I decided to do it hardcore (weighing things etc) for 5 days and thought if I didn't like it I'd lost nothing - and I felt so amazing after that…

New Zealand lowered the drinking age from 20 to 18 just after I turned 20 (dammit!). I'd never had any problem getting alcohol before the age change, so enforcement was always a problem, but it would have been nice for it have been legal.
But the Police and alcohol NGOs want the age raised back to 20. They say it has…

From the WHO website:
"Second-hand smoke accounts for one in 10 tobacco-related deaths. Creating 100% smoke-free environments is the only way to protect people from the harmful effects of second-hand tobacco smoke"

That 25-second display of basic human decency in that video made me cry. I just keep thinking back to incidents involving me and my friends and thinking - "Oh my god! That was sexual assault and we all thought it was normal".
Some of these assaults were perpetrated by my friends - men who I think of as basically decent…

Yeah, but look at that slutty whore handbag.

You are completely right. Having prostitution illegal is where the harm comes in. As our Prime Minister said when we made it legal in New Zealand in 2003, you don't have to like or approve of prostitution to think it is better to have it legal.
The evaluation of our prostitution law reforms (which was done in 2006 -…

I have recently become an irregular hair remover - like I will do it for a special occasion - and it's the bikini line that I feel most self conscious about. Silly isn't it? We all grow hair there, but it just seems unacceptable that anyone knows that we grow hair there. Underarm hair doesn't bother me at all and I…

Two small tips: turn on a tap to check the water pressure (when I did this the real estate agent said he had never seen anyone do it before but that it was a damned good idea). Sniff the inside of a few cupboards for dampness at look at the cupboard ceilings for mould. You look like you are being nosy, but, it's your…

Grrr. Kinja just deleted my reply to you.
The short version is: thank for very much for this. I have hoped he would have been flooded with replies like yours and I fear the facts that he didn't will make him more convinced he is right. I did say some of what you said and he just got pissy and insulting. Nothing has…

So with the Auckland rapists thing, a lot of women in New Zealand are sharing their rape and sexual assault stories in an effort to show that rape culture is real and it's here and that it happens to all sorts of women and that there are reasons women and girls blame themselves and don't go to the police.
When I shared…

The pathetic but kind of nice part of this is that I am feeling a bit of a Kate-effect for the first time. I am 34 and my grey re-growth is showing, but I can't afford to dye it for another two weeks. But it's ok because Kate has grey hair too!
I like to think she looked in the mirror and thought "I can't be bothered…

I hate pilling. HATE. So I have done a little research on what to look for in a garment to avoid it:
1) natural fabrics have weaker fibres than synthetics. This means that pills tend to just fall natural fabrics off and you don't notice them much. This is why my kids' clothes hardly pill; kids' clothes are often pure…

Maybe this will help: an open letter to those two dickheads
http://tewhareporahou.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/ope…

Think it through. If you hadn't been stronger than that guy and he had managed to have sex with you it would have been rape even if you wouldn't have called it that. Then follow your own "logic": if men are meant to take responsibility for their actions, then why wouldn't your rapist be expected to bear the…

Just FYI, I've just looked up some stats and they report the age of first-time sex in the US as 18 and in New Zealand as 17.8. It didn't break it down into males and females, but I still think it calls your assertion into question.
I don't question that we have a rape culture problem here, as in most other countries.…

I've just discovered The Hand Mirror. I've found being on Jezebel it's been easy to think "oh look how bad things are in America with all their pro-life nonsense and rape culture and guns and anti-gay blah blah blah" - so it's been a good (and bad) antidote to see how things are not necessarily that much better here.…

Exactly. My 4-year old told me she was going to marry her daddy. I said that wasn't really going to happen, not least because he's already married to me. She asked "will I marry another boy?" I said "some girls marry boys, some girls marry girls and some people don't marry anyone. You'll figure out what you want to do…

That is a damned good point.
So what's your misguided reason, Jezebel?

I'm pretty sure my sauna is gay. It keeps giving my swimming pool steamy looks.