The Church and, regrettably, the State in the Republic of Ireland do not appear to go in for an exception if the mother is at risk. I’ve lived in Ireland and my partner is Irish but this is the sole reason I would never be pregnant/give birth in that country. I absolutely love Ireland and want to settle there, but I…

I guess you need to look at it from the perspective of whose gaze is predominant. In comics, traditionally it’s been a male gaze (although of course women have always been comics fans). A woman with a skintight costume, shown in poses which accentuate her figure, with typically large (gravity-defying) breasts, a small…

I’m not denying they both accentuate physical features, it’s just when I see Cyclops I think ‘muscles’ and when I see Pheonix I think ‘figure’. I don’t deny that the male costumes are also geared towards physical attractiveness, it’s just a different kind of attractiveness.

That is true, but I would hazard that male costumes are generally skintight to show off muscles, and therefore express physical strength (itself a narrow stereotype), while the female skintight costumes are to show off body shape, and express female sexual appeal. Both appeal to a male audience primarily (and possibly…

I will remember that the next time I try to convince myself that I can pull off a crop-top.

I pretty much love you for bringing that clip into my life.

You don't know if this person has dyslexia or has English as an additional language.

That's a really good starter idea!

I agree - we do teach how to identify bias in sources, and I now teach ‘How to Google’ at the start of any research project.

The thing is the info they come across online can be entirely biased and/or unreliable. Young people are, in general, hugely and worryingly indiscriminate when it comes to believing what they come across online, and also will usually only access the top two google results. (Source: I am a teacher and often despair at…

GEORGIA O’KEEFE IS A MAN?!

You take that back, goddamit. #goosebumps4eva

Big Brother is . . . uh, totally not paying attention.

Haha, yeah I can't think of any three initial female writers! Sod it, let's go to four!

I wonder if plain initials are associated with women now? SE Hinton, JK Rowling, PD James ...

MISANDRY!!1!

I'm going to say primary teaching.

I think the ‘don’t have any other god but me’ bit is the commandment. I could be wrong though; I only went to Scripture Union classes to get the cool free pencils.

‘It’s alright if I do it, because I am a Good Person; logically, everything I do is Good.’

He looks a bit worried.