http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03696fw/India_A_Dangerous_Place_to_Be_a_Woman/
I found this both horrifying and eye opening at times, I do think it is worth a watch because I feel as westerners we become too focused on injustice in our society when this sort of thing is a global issue, often to a far more extreme degree.
THE FEMALE GRAZE
Friday, 28 June 2013
Hate to admit I've done this...
'The Fade Away'
Check out some more of their stuff, this one killed me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gfxjAaZg0&list=UU1R9fG_iKqvt9FIhEQH9nTA
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Once again displaying why I HATE The Daily Mail
http://vagendamag.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/glorying-in-drugs-girls-and-sleaze.html
Read and loathe with me. Thank you.
Read and loathe with me. Thank you.
My response to the average Daily Mail writer.
On of the things that I hate is they way they carry on about the 'sexualizing of children' yet continue to post pictures of young girls of around 14 and describe them as 'flaunting their enviable figures'. Creeeps.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Russell Brand Destroys Some Very Rude News Anchors
Proving that you can wear cowboy boots and still be smart. When I went to see the Dalai Lama in Manchester he was interviewing him actually, and he seemed like a really nice and intelligent guy. Love how he leans back in his chair, absorbing all the stupidity and readying for his verbal strike, like an eloquent cobra.
Kimye's Baby is Called....
To anyone who cares, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's child has been named: Kaidence Donda West.
We welcome you Kaidance (Donda is Kanye's late mothers name) To planet Earth. America's baby is born.
UPDATE: Apparently the child is now called 'North West', Nori for short.
We welcome you Kaidance (Donda is Kanye's late mothers name) To planet Earth. America's baby is born.
UPDATE: Apparently the child is now called 'North West', Nori for short.
I Want To Live In a World Where Women Can Hitch-Hike
Of course hitch-hiking is dangerous for men too, but I was reading this article -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/12/chloe-dewe-mathews-best-photograph?CMP=twt_fd
and after the first sentence I'm thinking, well this chick is pretty cool, but many women react to the idea of women hitch-hiking with 'really oh my god weren't you terrified', they wouldn't think I was cool, they would think I was irresponsible. Then I found out she was with her boyfriend and that made it a bit clearer, she'd got backup.
I love 'On the Road' and it recently struck me, I will not be able to hitch-hike in my lifetime without most people (sadly myself included) thinking that I am being tremendously reckless, because 'you can get raped you know'. And in our culture and modern world women have been taught from various films and TV dramas that if you try to thumb a lift with a lorry driver or someone similar you will get raped/beaten/murdered/kidnapped. The fact of the matter is, this is so uncool. It exists. There is nothing I can do about it, short of carrying a weapon and being fully versed in martial arts (neither of which are applicable to me).
It just makes me sad that this is the way the world is for me. I run the extra risk when I do something slightly irresponsible purely because I was born with lady parts and not man junk. Why did you curse me Lord, why? In the word of Federico Garcia Lorca, 'to be born a woman is the worst punishment', this was almost a century ago and what has even changed?
This is how I feel.
I think we just have to accept that a lot of people 'aren't very nice'. And they will never be. We can never educate people out of evil acts. It's like that time when Daphne and I were on holiday, Daphne was drunk as a skunk, and I was relatively sober. Then this Spanish guy comes up to her and gives her a drink, I tell Daphne not to drink it, but she decides she wants to trust him. In my view it's better to be safe than sorry, to whip out that cliché, simply because people most likely don't have altruistic motives.
I think I just want to live in a world were were I can walk home in peace, reliant on myself for my safety and not other people to not attack me. I think hitch-hiking will never work, irrelevant on whether you are male or female, simply because of human nature.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/12/chloe-dewe-mathews-best-photograph?CMP=twt_fd
and after the first sentence I'm thinking, well this chick is pretty cool, but many women react to the idea of women hitch-hiking with 'really oh my god weren't you terrified', they wouldn't think I was cool, they would think I was irresponsible. Then I found out she was with her boyfriend and that made it a bit clearer, she'd got backup.
I love 'On the Road' and it recently struck me, I will not be able to hitch-hike in my lifetime without most people (sadly myself included) thinking that I am being tremendously reckless, because 'you can get raped you know'. And in our culture and modern world women have been taught from various films and TV dramas that if you try to thumb a lift with a lorry driver or someone similar you will get raped/beaten/murdered/kidnapped. The fact of the matter is, this is so uncool. It exists. There is nothing I can do about it, short of carrying a weapon and being fully versed in martial arts (neither of which are applicable to me).
It just makes me sad that this is the way the world is for me. I run the extra risk when I do something slightly irresponsible purely because I was born with lady parts and not man junk. Why did you curse me Lord, why? In the word of Federico Garcia Lorca, 'to be born a woman is the worst punishment', this was almost a century ago and what has even changed?
This is how I feel.
I think we just have to accept that a lot of people 'aren't very nice'. And they will never be. We can never educate people out of evil acts. It's like that time when Daphne and I were on holiday, Daphne was drunk as a skunk, and I was relatively sober. Then this Spanish guy comes up to her and gives her a drink, I tell Daphne not to drink it, but she decides she wants to trust him. In my view it's better to be safe than sorry, to whip out that cliché, simply because people most likely don't have altruistic motives.
I think I just want to live in a world were were I can walk home in peace, reliant on myself for my safety and not other people to not attack me. I think hitch-hiking will never work, irrelevant on whether you are male or female, simply because of human nature.
Trevor Noah, A Really Funny SA Comedian.
'Tacos'- Apparently Napkins can cause some serious confusion
'Surfing Aids', an encounter with a stupid surfer.
Death at a Funeral
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