<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093</id><updated>2011-12-12T06:44:59.717Z</updated><title type='text'>V e r g e   M a g a z i n e</title><subtitle type='html'>|Feminist Culture Magazine|</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>98</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-116309373364205414</id><published>2006-11-09T17:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-09T17:35:33.663Z</updated><title type='text'>Boobs er... basically</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday the Daily Star upset me just like it pretty much does everyday of its sad, little, manipulative, patriarchal-piggish existence. As yesterday’s front-cover was blemished by this feature:Although, I suppose it takes something to blemish The Star, as it is a perverse disgusting mole on the smooth landscape of journalism’s elegant contours overall anyhow. The masthead was mutated with a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/116309373364205414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=116309373364205414&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116309373364205414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116309373364205414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/11/boobs-er-basically.html' title='Boobs er... basically'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-116133026082344221</id><published>2006-10-20T08:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-20T08:44:20.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pig of the Week</title><summary type='text'>On top of the claims published this week that 'national icon' Paul McCartney 'stabbed her (Heather Mills) in the arm with a broken wine glass and grabbed her by the neck to choke her', this quote from one of the articles surrounding their stormy divorce settlement disturbed me the most:She claimed McCartney did not want her to breastfeed their baby daughter, saying "they are my breasts", the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/116133026082344221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=116133026082344221&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116133026082344221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116133026082344221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/pig-of-week.html' title='Pig of the Week'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-116124141194519901</id><published>2006-10-19T08:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T08:03:31.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Emma Nicholson Case</title><summary type='text'>27-year-old former model, Emma Nicholson won £17, 500 this week from her former boss, Nigel Gravett after he sacked her for getting pregnant after telling her that her 'blonde hair and long legs' were perfect for a sales job and even bullied her in to posing topless on one occasion. She was fired from Network Global just one month after falling pregnant.The article declares that:The mother of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/116124141194519901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=116124141194519901&amp;isPopup=true' title='46 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116124141194519901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116124141194519901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/emma-nicholson-case.html' title='The Emma Nicholson Case'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>46</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-116124112166862639</id><published>2006-10-19T07:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T07:58:41.683+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Jade Goody Poll</title><summary type='text'>This poll made me laugh!Women being famous for being thick... where does recognition come into it?Sorry, but Jade Goody is more or less an icon for the 'Famous For Doing Frig All' brigade these days and I just think it's a bad direction that society is rearing towards. Let's praise someone for doing something worthwhile, eh? You can say she is brainy all you want for raking in a million, but she </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/116124112166862639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=116124112166862639&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116124112166862639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116124112166862639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/jade-goody-poll.html' title='Jade Goody Poll'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-116046553114541224</id><published>2006-10-10T08:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-10T08:32:11.160+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Loaded's 100 Myspace Minxes</title><summary type='text'>The continuing proliferation of pornographic representations in print, film and more recently on the Internet points to a continuing objectification and dehumanization of women.C, Carter &amp; L, Steiner (2004)Critical Readings: Media and Gender. Maindenhead: Open University Press, p.30.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/116046553114541224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=116046553114541224&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116046553114541224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/116046553114541224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/loadeds-100-myspace-minxes.html' title='Loaded&apos;s 100 Myspace Minxes'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115994361001146075</id><published>2006-10-04T07:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T07:33:30.033+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ford Fiesta Ad</title><summary type='text'>While digging through a hefty, dusty pile of uni handouts and work from last year, I stumbled upon this print advertisement put out by Ford earlier this year.I'd kept it because it was stuffed inside a file from a brief presentation of the advert that I gave in a seminar some months ago. At the time, I couldn't help but rejoice that finally women were being addressed within the advertising realm </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115994361001146075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115994361001146075&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115994361001146075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115994361001146075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/ford-fiesta-ad.html' title='Ford Fiesta Ad'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115988389497037473</id><published>2006-10-03T14:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T14:58:14.970+01:00</updated><title type='text'>John McCririck</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115988389497037473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115988389497037473&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115988389497037473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115988389497037473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-mccririck.html' title='John McCririck'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115988378200357137</id><published>2006-10-03T14:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T14:56:22.020+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Men still rule the roost?</title><summary type='text'>While I sat in the university cafe yesterday, I discovered this article written by David Teather regarding how the number of women employees in the highest-of-the-high job positions has dwindled completely, new statistics have found. The opening statement of the piece was:The number of women in Britain's boardrooms has fallen sharply, wiping out the small but steady gains made over the past few </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115988378200357137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115988378200357137&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115988378200357137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115988378200357137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/10/men-still-rule-roost.html' title='Men still rule the roost?'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115942752330016039</id><published>2006-09-28T08:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-28T08:12:03.316+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Big Barbie Auction</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday a 1959 Barbie doll donning a skimpy, zebra-print swimming costume and sunglasses ensemble sold for an almost staggering £3,000 (£2,880 to be precise) at an auction held at Christies, London; which also featured 4, 000 other clones of the Mattel manipulative mutant. Which just goes to show that some people have money to burn, doesn’t it?As the No. 1 Barbie dates back to the year the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115942752330016039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115942752330016039&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115942752330016039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115942752330016039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/big-barbie-auction.html' title='The Big Barbie Auction'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115911094799369876</id><published>2006-09-24T16:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-24T16:15:48.063+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Phrases That I Have Heard This Week</title><summary type='text'>I am extremely proud of myself. Despite a HELL of a lot of tongue biting this week: my tongue still remains in mint condition and securely in my gob. It took some doing, what with some of these ditties of discourse flying around the chambers of conversations I have been faced with this week…“Yeah, he’s gone off sex ever since he banged a few fatties….” A bloke explaining to me why his mate hasn’t</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115911094799369876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115911094799369876&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115911094799369876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115911094799369876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/phrases-that-i-have-heard-this-week.html' title='Phrases That I Have Heard This Week'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115856434113682986</id><published>2006-09-18T08:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T08:25:41.153+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rear Of The Year</title><summary type='text'>Out of all the interesting news and some rather shocking stuff going on currently in the whole wide world I was shocked to see that two nights ago, on the NTL Homepage, they had decided that ‘Rear Of The Year’ should be top on the agenda of their news story bulletins! It just made me think, aside from the disgusting fact that such a feeble, trashy story managed to clinch press prominence over say</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115856434113682986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115856434113682986&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115856434113682986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115856434113682986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/rear-of-year.html' title='Rear Of The Year'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115766024418578547</id><published>2006-09-07T21:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-07T21:17:24.203+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It Wasn't Me</title><summary type='text'>I read this Paris Hilton-related article this week on the BBC website.Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115766024418578547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115766024418578547&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115766024418578547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115766024418578547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/it-wasnt-me.html' title='It Wasn&apos;t Me'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115709485279965137</id><published>2006-09-01T08:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T08:14:12.810+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Poem I Wrote: Barbie &amp; Me</title><summary type='text'>Here is a fictional poem that I wrote related to Barbie that I thought I'd exhibit on here. The joining of politics and poetry... what a beautiful alliance.BARBIE &amp; MEBy Sarah ParryOne Christmas I unveiled her candy-pink wrappingand at first I thought that this lass was pretty neat.Then I realised this bitch was feminist-slappingand let the dog gnaw off her plastic, tip-toed feet!I’d stuff my bra</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115709485279965137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115709485279965137&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115709485279965137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115709485279965137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/poem-i-wrote-barbie-me.html' title='A Poem I Wrote: Barbie &amp; Me'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115675214603414926</id><published>2006-08-28T09:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T09:02:26.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lesbian Barbie</title><summary type='text'>Over the weekend I couldn’t help but notice a story doing the rounds on the internet addressing Mattel’s latest expedition to sue some poor sod. Apparently Mattel are threatening to sue a Brazilian artist, Karin Schwarz who is presenting the Barbie doll, via an exhibition entitled ‘Amazing Girls‘ in a bar in Curitiba, in a number of compromising ‘lesbian’ situations! Articles have stated that </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115675214603414926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115675214603414926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115675214603414926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115675214603414926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/lesbian-barbie.html' title='Lesbian Barbie'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115648826879554693</id><published>2006-08-25T07:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-25T07:44:28.813+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Bratz Bug</title><summary type='text'>When a pregnant co-worker of mine disclosed with me yesterday how she anticipates never to purchase her child, if of course it is a girl as a boy would just be bombarded with the masculine chunk of cliché, masculinity-deeming stereotype which is khaki-clad Action Man, a Barbie doll I was pleased as punch! Although, in the aftermath of being enlightened about the new rulers of the plastic </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115648826879554693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115648826879554693&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115648826879554693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115648826879554693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/bratz-bug.html' title='The Bratz Bug'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115632347495821660</id><published>2006-08-23T09:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-23T09:57:54.983+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sexism Starts At The Toy-Box</title><summary type='text'>The other night over a few drinks and late-night banter, a mate and I were discussing what toys we were bought as kids and in the aftermath of pooling together our products, it suddenly seemed to dawn on us just how manipulative the products our parents bought us as kids can be! For gender roles and expectations are embedded into our identities and approaches towards life right from those </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115632347495821660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115632347495821660&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115632347495821660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115632347495821660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/sexism-starts-at-toy-box.html' title='Sexism Starts At The Toy-Box'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115597620175783329</id><published>2006-08-19T09:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T09:30:01.773+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My Big Brother Critique</title><summary type='text'>In wake of the Big Brother final here is a doodle/collage I created a couple of months ago based on contestant, Nikki. People may think that I am being anti-feminist in branding Nikki a 'pre-packed footballer's wife wannabe' but we all know from seeing her audition tape on the very first launch show that from her thickly-spread ditsy dialogue that this was where her aspirations lay. Last night I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115597620175783329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115597620175783329&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115597620175783329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115597620175783329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-big-brother-critique.html' title='My Big Brother Critique'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115570802486549001</id><published>2006-08-16T07:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T07:00:24.886+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Who needs Barbie?</title><summary type='text'>After seeing this picture splattered everywhere, just a few weeks ago, I couldn't help thinking to myself how these days modern day women don't need the plastic patriarchal icon which is Barbie to keep that irritating, yet immortal bimbo (all boobs and no brain) ideology ticking along because we have figures in the public eye such as Jade Goody. Here is a photograph which the press had a field </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115570802486549001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115570802486549001&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115570802486549001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115570802486549001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-needs-barbie.html' title='Who needs Barbie?'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115562803334022174</id><published>2006-08-15T08:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T08:47:13.366+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Customer Service Announcement</title><summary type='text'>Just a word of warning to men who shop at the Next store where I work: please will you pop your ogling eyeballs back in, please. I really don't understand how men can perve over shop assistants, or any woman for that matter, when their partner is stood right there at their seedy, saucer-eyed side! They aren't even discreet about it! Men seem to think that the fact that their gaze, the level of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115562803334022174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115562803334022174&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115562803334022174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115562803334022174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/customer-service-announcement.html' title='A Customer Service Announcement'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115554165364547807</id><published>2006-08-14T08:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-14T08:47:33.666+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven Gerrard Quotes</title><summary type='text'>I know I may be just a little bit bias as a Chelsea fan, even a bit of a sour-puss/hungover and disappointed from going to watch my beloved blues lose to the scousers yesterday at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium, but was I really the only one to be offended by some of the remarks that Steven Gerrard has made in his new autobiography? As yesterday Sky Sports were reeling a few lines here and there off</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115554165364547807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115554165364547807&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115554165364547807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115554165364547807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/steven-gerrard-quotes.html' title='Steven Gerrard Quotes'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115537106809205494</id><published>2006-08-12T09:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T09:24:28.126+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mattel's Misogyny</title><summary type='text'>Whoever said that Mattel were patriarchal-propaganda pumping politicalists needs their heads tested, as this horrifically nuclear-family pro selection of Barbie dolls goes to show...This is the Play All Day Nursery Gift Set for example. I would just like to ask here: where are the stretch marks, post-pregnancy signs of weight gain and swollen, leaking-with-milk breasts please?Here is the Barbie </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115537106809205494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115537106809205494&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115537106809205494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115537106809205494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/mattels-misogyny.html' title='Mattel&apos;s Misogyny'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115536972891720323</id><published>2006-08-12T09:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T09:02:08.930+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Legacy of Barbie</title><summary type='text'>Scary, I know...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115536972891720323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115536972891720323&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115536972891720323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115536972891720323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/legacy-of-barbie.html' title='The Legacy of Barbie'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115519486693378919</id><published>2006-08-10T08:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T08:27:46.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Victoria Beckham's Pregnancy Orders</title><summary type='text'>In the newspapers this week reports have suggested that Victoria Beckham is itching for a fourth child,(personally I have a inkling that she is trying for that beloved daughter that she has always yearned for) however, according to the press doctors have ordered that she will have to pile on the pounds before she even considers a fourth child. I have to say I agree after seeing those stick-insect</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115519486693378919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115519486693378919&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115519486693378919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115519486693378919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/victoria-beckhams-pregnancy-orders.html' title='Victoria Beckham&apos;s Pregnancy Orders'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115510804296979942</id><published>2006-08-09T08:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T08:20:42.983+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Latest Barbie</title><summary type='text'>Did you know that the latest Barbie comes with:- a multi-millionaire hotel-owning father,- a UB40 rip-off pop single- a half-baked film career and- a history in the homemade porn industry.Ooops! I did it again. This is Paris Hilton! Sorry! I just keep getting those two easily confused, easy mistake right?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115510804296979942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115510804296979942&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115510804296979942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115510804296979942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/latest-barbie.html' title='The Latest Barbie'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115493340886874208</id><published>2006-08-07T07:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T07:50:08.883+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Heather Mills</title><summary type='text'>This weekend I couldn't help but observe how a lot of the tabloids had slapped images of Paul McCartney's soon-to-be ex-wife all over the front pages apparently 'looking desperate' in a club and drawing arrows to her ribs indicating to the newspaper-buying audience just how this woman cannot live without the ex-Beatle. It seems decades can pass by, but that acute sexist sting from the sixties </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115493340886874208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115493340886874208&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115493340886874208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115493340886874208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/heather-mills.html' title='Heather Mills'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115476671481529226</id><published>2006-08-05T09:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T09:32:43.190+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cheryl Tweedy</title><summary type='text'>This week Cheryl Tweedy has supposedly been quoted as slating Paris Hilton's acting as 'abysmal' and get this...She looks like a Barbie doll. She makes me laugh. I don't think there's any substance to her.CHERYL TWEEDY - Of Girls Aloud, or more famously known as 'that Ashley Cole's missus' these days.And you don't resemble Barbie's pal, Skipper whatsoever do you, Chez? Pot. Kettle. Black. Springs</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115476671481529226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115476671481529226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115476671481529226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115476671481529226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/cheryl-tweedy.html' title='Cheryl Tweedy'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115476595043657457</id><published>2006-08-05T09:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T09:19:10.456+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My Mum &amp; Me... &amp; patriarchal pottery!</title><summary type='text'>During clearing out my parents house, my ole childhood haunt where all my height measurement lines still grace the backs of doors and many a scummy stain has saturated into the carpet from many a tipsy tipped beverage on my behalf, naturally I have stumbled upon many an artefact that hasn’t been disturbed for many, many years.  I have already shared with you the shrapnel from my escapades as a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115476595043657457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115476595043657457&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115476595043657457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115476595043657457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-mum-me-patriarchal-pottery.html' title='My Mum &amp; Me... &amp; patriarchal pottery!'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115450224288689589</id><published>2006-08-02T08:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T08:04:02.906+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The hypocrisy of Heat</title><summary type='text'>When I was younger I used to buy Heat magazine religiously, my mum still does as she's down the newsagents before 9'o clock on a Tuesday never fail with the exact sharpnel ready and waiting in her palm. However, my adoration for their gossipy celeb journalism has admittedly waned over recent years. As my feminist identity has matured I cannot help but taint my once innocently naive relationship </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115450224288689589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115450224288689589&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115450224288689589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115450224288689589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/08/hypocrisy-of-heat.html' title='The hypocrisy of Heat'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115426652371266828</id><published>2006-07-30T14:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T14:35:23.730+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Stereophonics Sum It Up</title><summary type='text'>she said i'm gonna be another Marilyn bleach my hair and get real thin and everybody's gonna wanna dance with meTHE STEREOPHONICS - She Takes Her Clothes OffLast night an up-and-coming female artist I saw live performed a cover version of this fabulous Stereophonics track off their 'Performance and Cocktails' album. I just couldn't help thinking when I heard her singing these few lines how it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115426652371266828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115426652371266828&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115426652371266828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115426652371266828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/stereophonics-sum-it-up.html' title='Stereophonics Sum It Up'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115415696803439811</id><published>2006-07-29T08:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T08:09:28.046+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Geri Halliwell set for Eastenders!</title><summary type='text'>I was a bit miffed, surprised and gutted yesterday to read in the newspapers that my 90s idol, Geri Halliwell is set to take a role in BBC rapidly-flopping soap, Eastenders. After publicly admitting how one of her all-time ambitions was to appear in a soap opera the BBC are actually going to specially draft in a character role for her!I just do not see the point in such a talented, intelligent </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115415696803439811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115415696803439811&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115415696803439811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115415696803439811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/geri-halliwell-set-for-eastenders.html' title='Geri Halliwell set for Eastenders!'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115398448878135392</id><published>2006-07-27T07:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T11:13:02.733+01:00</updated><title type='text'>NEW magazine</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday while innocently eating my lunch-time sub in the staff room, my wandering eyes were corrupted by cheap and nasty glossy magazine, New. Some poor soul must have been lured in by the luminous 60p flash-pricing on the front cover, which strangely worked the opposite way for me and just stunk of publishing desperation. The offending article in question was a photograph of Love Island's, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115398448878135392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115398448878135392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115398448878135392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115398448878135392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-magazine.html' title='NEW magazine'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115380921291052468</id><published>2006-07-25T07:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-25T07:33:32.930+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloke Quote</title><summary type='text'>You've got an arse like a loaf of bread...I just wanna slice!SPIRAL - BIG BROTHERSpiral was referring to Aishleyne's rear-end when he made this shockingly seedy statement.After hearing it, I've gotta be honest: I'm not surprised there's no girlfriend waiting for Spiral on the outside.Don't you just hate these men using this leering language? And this wanker's words are being broadcast to a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115380921291052468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115380921291052468&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115380921291052468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115380921291052468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/bloke-quote.html' title='Bloke Quote'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115376980935754136</id><published>2006-07-24T20:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T20:39:40.046+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Another casualty to culture...</title><summary type='text'>After seeing photographs of fabulous actress, Keira Knightley strutting that skinny frame up and down the famous crimson carpet at a recent Pirates premier, I felt compelled to show you all one of them. Personally: I found them disturbing when I first laid eyes on them. What has happened to the beautiful, healthy woman that we saw in Bend It Like Beckham?That red carpet culture can pay the bills,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115376980935754136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115376980935754136&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115376980935754136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115376980935754136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/another-casualty-to-culture.html' title='Another casualty to culture...'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115360235272196934</id><published>2006-07-22T22:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T22:05:52.733+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lily Allen: coke fiend?</title><summary type='text'>Whilst skimming through the Sun today, I happened to come across this article featured in Lorraine Kelly's weekly column regarding Lily Allen's recent comments regarding how she was going to do some coke to celebrate reaching the number one spot with superb sunny single, 'Smile'.Now don't get me wrong, I am not a pro-drugs person and don't use valuable posting space on this blog raving about the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115360235272196934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115360235272196934&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115360235272196934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115360235272196934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/lily-allen-coke-fiend.html' title='Lily Allen: coke fiend?'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115355286041593151</id><published>2006-07-22T08:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T08:21:00.426+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tampax Flower Power</title><summary type='text'>I can't help but wonder whether a male word slinger concocted Tampax's recently-unveiled advertising campaign for 'Flower Power Tampons.'As firstly, how in hell can a tampon capture the spirit of a hippy-filled, weed-soaked epoch? Secondly, last night in between my Big Brother fixes, the advert popped on and I swear the narrator describes how you should 'enjoy' the experience of using this tampon</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115355286041593151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115355286041593151&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115355286041593151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115355286041593151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/tampax-flower-power.html' title='Tampax Flower Power'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115338543500725316</id><published>2006-07-20T09:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T09:50:35.020+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Adventures of a Shop Girl</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday was the hottest day since 1911, so what was I doing to celebrate the rare-ness of a sizzling British summer heat wave??? Sipping a freezing cold, frosty pint outside a pub... NOPESunbathing to rid myself of milk bottle status... NOPEI was working in a sizzling shop, shifting stock back and forth up a flight of cast iron stairs all day long and doing what Brits do best in reaction to the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115338543500725316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115338543500725316&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115338543500725316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115338543500725316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/adventures-of-shop-girl.html' title='Adventures of a Shop Girl'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115338394055940486</id><published>2006-07-20T09:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T09:26:37.136+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bush Gropes Merkel</title><summary type='text'>So we all thought after the whole "Yo Blair..." thing, Dubya couldn't sink any lower... Now it seems we'll have to teach him about 'good touching' and 'bad touching':From the San Fransisco Gate:Here is Dubya, strolling speedily into a Group of Eight summit meeting where powerful, intent world leaders are already gathered to discuss, presumably, serious issues of the day, walking straight up to a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115338394055940486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115338394055940486&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115338394055940486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115338394055940486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/bush-gropes-merkel.html' title='Bush Gropes Merkel'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115323516819041336</id><published>2006-07-18T15:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T16:06:08.240+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lily Allen</title><summary type='text'>I cannot express to you how overjoyed I was to hear on Sunday that Lily Allen is spending yet another week on top of the charts with her sassy single, 'Smile'. I picked up a battered copy of someone's Metro in our work staff-room and was pleased to see that her album is also creating positive stirs. In my opinoon it's about time everybody got over themselves bigging up the Artic Monkeys as being </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115323516819041336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115323516819041336&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115323516819041336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115323516819041336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/lily-allen.html' title='Lily Allen'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115312231838032964</id><published>2006-07-17T08:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T08:45:18.406+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sports Relief Mastermind</title><summary type='text'>I know that it was all under the positive fund-raising umbrella of Sports Relief this weekend when Jade Goody and Chantelle Houghton were put head-to-head in a celebrity, charity version of Mastermind, however I still don't think that this provides an adequate enough excuse for the BBC just to spare half an hour of their schedule to just taking the piss out of women. I think I must have been </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115312231838032964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115312231838032964&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115312231838032964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115312231838032964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/sports-relief-mastermind.html' title='Sports Relief Mastermind'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115308255372816259</id><published>2006-07-16T21:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T08:47:36.973+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Brother has got me reeling... yet again!</title><summary type='text'>I was just watching tonight's epidode of Big Brother (yes, my Sunday nights are that un-eventful) when blonde contestant, Aishleyne who was sunbathing pool-side started screaming her head off. Now, I had just been pottering off to pour some tea at the time, glanced away just for a mo to sort out my stewing brew and didn't know what the hell had happened. Then to my disgust Aishleyne went on to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115308255372816259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115308255372816259&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115308255372816259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115308255372816259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/big-brother-has-got-me-reeling-yet.html' title='Big Brother has got me reeling... yet again!'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115299352539498401</id><published>2006-07-15T20:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T20:58:45.446+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Channel 5's - Superhero Weekend</title><summary type='text'>From what I've observed yesterday's release of Hollywood blockbuster, Superman Returns has acted as a cinematic catalyst for the likes of Sky Movies and especially, chauvinist culprits Channel Five to bombard us with cheaply accessed backlogs of old male-dominated superhero flicks to coincide with the new Superman film's release.However, as my boyfriend sits gorging in our flat this afternoon on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115299352539498401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115299352539498401&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115299352539498401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115299352539498401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/channel-5s-superhero-weekend.html' title='Channel 5&apos;s - Superhero Weekend'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115297183715911107</id><published>2006-07-15T14:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T14:57:17.263+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ginger Spice lives on!</title><summary type='text'>In today's edition of The Daily Mirror is this article of Geri Halliwell raising her new born daughter, Bluebell alone. Which just goes to show in my opinion that the Spice Girls may be long dead and buried in terms of chart success, banished to battered old bargain bins in dark, dingy corners of record stores globally but that girl power spirit still continues to live on.The newspaper declares </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115297183715911107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115297183715911107&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115297183715911107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115297183715911107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/ginger-spice-lives-on.html' title='Ginger Spice lives on!'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115287348904989814</id><published>2006-07-14T11:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T11:38:09.060+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Because interracial homoeroticism sells...</title><summary type='text'>An advert for Sony's new PSP white. There had to be contrast, there had to be conflict, there had to be race, and there had to be two women going at it in a sexually charged way. Because two dudes would just be gay. And the 18 to 24-year-old male demographic just don't go in fot that shit.Hat-tip to Sabonasi at the Livejournal feminist community</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115287348904989814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115287348904989814&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115287348904989814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115287348904989814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/because-interracial-homoeroticism.html' title='Because interracial homoeroticism sells...'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115265315371606321</id><published>2006-07-11T22:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T22:25:53.733+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Look Good Naked (CH4)</title><summary type='text'>By Sarah ParryI see what Channel 4 have done here. In a terrestrial tidal wave of audience backlash over programmes funded by themselves such as, You Are What You Eat and Ten Years Younger for ordering women to change their shape, or change their face in the case of the latter, they have created this show in an act of desperate defence. So tonight I have forced myself to tune into see How To Look</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115265315371606321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115265315371606321&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115265315371606321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115265315371606321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-look-good-naked-ch4.html' title='How To Look Good Naked (CH4)'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115269704565880131</id><published>2006-07-11T10:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T10:38:10.023+01:00</updated><title type='text'>feminist magazines a-go-go</title><summary type='text'>The first issue of Subtext magazine is out now, featuring:Serap Cileli - Fiona Dow talks in depth with the famous Muslim women's rights activistAndrea Zolla - Subtext's Charlotte talks to the lead singer of Seattle based Pretty Girls Make Graves about the music business, feminism and their new release Elan VitalMichelle Wright takes a critical look at Raunch CultureLaurelin explains why women's </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115269704565880131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115269704565880131&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115269704565880131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115269704565880131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/feminist-magazines-go-go.html' title='feminist magazines a-go-go'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115252632876156279</id><published>2006-07-10T10:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T11:12:08.780+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Department of Health covering up mental health assults?</title><summary type='text'>A report leaked to the Times charts more than 100 incidents of rape, sexual assult and sexual harassment in NHS mental health units over two years - including more than 10 rapes in one year, and three unwanted pregnancies.The report, which the government said is 'still in the process of being published', eight months after the Department of Health got hold of it, includes both patients attacking </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115252632876156279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115252632876156279&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115252632876156279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115252632876156279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/department-of-health-covering-up.html' title='Department of Health covering up mental health assults?'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115245592120196908</id><published>2006-07-09T15:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-09T15:38:41.220+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Brother Angst!!</title><summary type='text'>Firstly, I would like to apologise sincerely for lowering the tone of this blog to the likes of Big Brother. As I am well aware that there are masses of people out there who just shrug off the Endemol-reared phenomena as nothing but 'trash TV' (ahem...John Humphries)or a programme designed for the lowest common denominator: the chav community. However, I feel that I should oppose these notions </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115245592120196908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115245592120196908&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115245592120196908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115245592120196908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/big-brother-angst.html' title='Big Brother Angst!!'/><author><name>Sarah Louise Parry</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6248/3223/1600/r.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115239028893294181</id><published>2006-07-08T20:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T21:24:49.853+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Women doing better... well, a little bit better... in a few cases. Anywho, it's a disaster.</title><summary type='text'>The New Gender Divide series in the New York Times, 'examines what has happened to men and women several decades after the women's movement began'.This Sunday's installment finds 'women leaving men in the dust' at North American collegesIt's like a crash course in educational stereotypes and statistics. Some highlights:*The situation has been rapidly degrading for black and hispanic boys, but it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115239028893294181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115239028893294181&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115239028893294181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115239028893294181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/women-doing-better-well-little-bit.html' title='Women doing better... well, a little bit better... in a few cases. Anywho, it&apos;s a disaster.'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115238796439044418</id><published>2006-07-08T20:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T20:46:04.426+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Britain's oldest mum gives birth, Daily Mail takes time off from disgust, righteous indignation to pay for first pictures.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115238796439044418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115238796439044418&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115238796439044418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115238796439044418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/britains-oldest-mum-gives-birth-daily.html' title=''/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115237724918625161</id><published>2006-07-08T17:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T17:47:29.200+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Zoo, Nuts and Horny Housewives - this conspiracy goes all the way to the PM</title><summary type='text'>Via Private Eye</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115237724918625161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115237724918625161&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115237724918625161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115237724918625161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/zoo-nuts-and-horny-housewives-this.html' title='Zoo, Nuts and Horny Housewives - this conspiracy goes all the way to the PM'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115232314553016046</id><published>2006-07-08T02:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T20:30:11.340+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Narcissism Like Chocolate</title><summary type='text'>Laura at Not a feminist butÂ takes on Lulu BeliveauÂs ÂPoliticised by PornÂ article from our first issue, finds issue with Bathroom Sluts, Porn for Porns Sake.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115232314553016046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115232314553016046&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115232314553016046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115232314553016046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/narcissism-like-chocolate.html' title='Narcissism Like Chocolate'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115218115355068628</id><published>2006-07-06T10:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-06T11:19:13.586+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Arab Israeli/ Jewish Israeli Wife swap fails to ends Gaza standoff</title><summary type='text'>Wife-swap iss taken to its logical conclusion with Wife swap Israel swapping an Arab Israeli wife with a Jewish Israeli wife.The Arab husband, and the Jewish wife - both primary caregivers - manage to compromise, and get along.Co-workaholics (the Arab wife and the Jewish husband) manage to see each other as nothing but stereotypes, and crash and burn….The (London) Times lets fly with the Arab </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115218115355068628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115218115355068628&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115218115355068628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115218115355068628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/arab-israeli-jewish-israeli-wife-swap.html' title='Arab Israeli/ Jewish Israeli Wife swap fails to ends Gaza standoff'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115217895509485372</id><published>2006-07-06T10:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-06T10:42:35.143+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sophia Loren gets naked for first time in 55 years... media oddly compelled</title><summary type='text'>71-year-old Sophia Loren poses nude (well, in black lingerie) for Pirelli’s 2007 Calendar.Go Grandma or objectification until you die?*Zoe Williams hits the spot :"She can take her clothes off as much as she likes. I just don't get a joyful message of the march of gender parity from it."*Saga Mags' Katherine Whitehorn suggests we just look away*The Tottygraph sees perfect synergy (core audience </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115217895509485372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115217895509485372&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115217895509485372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115217895509485372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/07/sophia-loren-gets-naked-for-first-time.html' title='Sophia Loren gets naked for first time in 55 years... media oddly compelled'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-115305451996460094</id><published>2006-06-16T13:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T13:55:19.986+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Postal Fun</title><summary type='text'>Some of the copies we mailed out went awol, and we finally figured out why. When we first asked at the post office how much it would cost to send out a B5 envelope, we managed to forget that the magazine weighed more than two sheets of paper and didn't weigh it. It turns out a second class stamp will get you only so far. Some made it to Edinborough without a problem, some failed to get as far as </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/115305451996460094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=115305451996460094&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115305451996460094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/115305451996460094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/06/postal-fun.html' title='Postal Fun'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114949896472649281</id><published>2006-06-05T10:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T10:16:04.740+01:00</updated><title type='text'>So the EOC, a blonde and a brunette go into a bar...</title><summary type='text'>The Equal Opportunities Comission is searching out stories about sexual harassment in the workplace...The Equal Opportunities Commission is currently campaigning to raise awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace and what can be done to tackle it. We are looking for people who might be prepared to be interviewed about their experiences of sexual harassment , which ranges from sexist jokes, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114949896472649281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114949896472649281&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114949896472649281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114949896472649281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/06/so-eoc-blonde-and-brunette-go-into-bar.html' title='So the EOC, a blonde and a brunette go into a bar...'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114976261018576476</id><published>2006-06-04T11:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-08T11:30:10.200+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Minding the gap for two years...</title><summary type='text'>Mind the Gap will be two years old in september, and is loving the revolution.The how and why story, as well as ass kicking and name taking.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114976261018576476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114976261018576476&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114976261018576476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114976261018576476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/06/minding-gap-for-two-years.html' title='Minding the gap for two years...'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114950050024850089</id><published>2006-05-31T10:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T10:42:45.226+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tortured Ugandan lesbian faces deportation</title><summary type='text'>... immigration says lesbians don't have children and aren't 'homosexuals'.From the Fem. wires Dear Sir/Madam Re Flight KL1000 to Amsterdam and Flight KL561 to Entebbe Elizabeth*  (Home Office reference number K1182008 )  Your airline has been asked to deport a failed asylum seeker back to Uganda on Friday 2nd June. I feel it is essential that you know about this woman’s situation in order to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114950050024850089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114950050024850089&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114950050024850089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114950050024850089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/tortured-ugandan-lesbian-faces.html' title='Tortured Ugandan lesbian faces deportation'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114795132507499599</id><published>2006-05-18T12:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-20T16:28:19.580+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Apologies and one mother of a link dump</title><summary type='text'>Sorry the blog's been asleep lately, we've been putting the first issue to bed...So here's a mammoth feminist media and general bitchery catchup...Savaging ContraceptionI adore Dan Savage. Not just for the no-nonsense no squeamishness approach he has to all things sex,(santorum) or the fact that in the short time he has been working as a sex advice columnist, he has made several desperately </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114795132507499599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114795132507499599&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114795132507499599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114795132507499599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/apologies-and-one-mother-of-link-dump.html' title='Apologies and one mother of a link dump'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114942328255221654</id><published>2006-05-17T12:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T13:14:42.563+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Still no word on C4's Big Brother/ Sex Traffic spoof</title><summary type='text'>From the Fem. wires -   Strictly Come Poledancing - a riveting combination of Reality TV, rhythm and sexual exploitation - was torched after the London Feminist Network, Engender, and several student groups pointed out what a spectacularly stupid idea it was for so many reasons: the links to trafficking, the fact that Comic Relief funds initiatives to get women out of sex work and against sexual </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114942328255221654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114942328255221654&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114942328255221654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114942328255221654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/still-no-word-on-c4s-big-brother-sex_17.html' title='Still no word on C4&apos;s Big Brother/ Sex Traffic spoof'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114711555327230301</id><published>2006-05-08T20:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T20:12:33.273+01:00</updated><title type='text'>STop Rape Injustice</title><summary type='text'>A new movement, Stop Rape Injustice, which grew out of last month's protest against the pathetic 5.6% rape conviction rate, plans to protest once a month all over the UK, at courts where rape cases have failed.I guess that whole homecidal female army thing will have to wait...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114711555327230301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114711555327230301&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711555327230301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711555327230301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/stop-rape-injustice.html' title='STop Rape Injustice'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114711509378192967</id><published>2006-05-08T19:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T20:04:53.810+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The kids are pro-choice and proud because...</title><summary type='text'>Straying slightly from the standard infighig, politics and trying to convice Imperial College that the sun doesn't shine out of thier academic arses, the NUS has launched the second annual Pro-choice and Proud of it campaign, and illiceted some illuminating responses.From Anne Quesney, Abortion Rights: I'm pro-choice and proud of it because..."Control over our body is our most fundamental human </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114711509378192967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114711509378192967&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711509378192967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711509378192967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/kids-are-pro-choice-and-proud-because.html' title='The kids are pro-choice and proud because...'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114711430785407633</id><published>2006-05-08T19:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T19:51:47.856+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick, sound off about rape, while the Home Office is still interested</title><summary type='text'>Also Via the fem. wiresHeres your chance to do something about that pathetic 5.6% conviction rate for rape: the Home Office Consultation is up and running, here's the document, and the deadline is the 31st of July. Go on, pretend democracy works.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114711430785407633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114711430785407633&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711430785407633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711430785407633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/quick-sound-off-about-rape-while-home.html' title='Quick, sound off about rape, while the Home Office is still interested'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114711379746567553</id><published>2006-05-08T19:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T19:43:17.476+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Abortion obstructed? Tell the Country..</title><summary type='text'>Via the Fem.Wires, Channel 4 and Abortion Rights are looking for people who have had their access to abortion denied or obstructed..."Channel 4 News are investigating unfair restrictions in abortion servicesand want to interview a woman about her experience of delays andobstruction. They are particularly interested in situations where women’sinitial consultation had been delayed or where NHS </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114711379746567553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114711379746567553&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711379746567553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114711379746567553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/abortion-obstructed-tell-country.html' title='Abortion obstructed? Tell the Country..'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114942411492537505</id><published>2006-05-07T23:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T13:28:34.926+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act - because you were too weak to run away.</title><summary type='text'>The first person convicted under the act is a mother who failed to stop her violent husband from killing her child. The Times story isn't archived, so here it is:Mother is first to be found guilty of family homicide. (Home news)Byline: Joanna BaleA YOUNG mother who failed to protect her baby from being murdered by her violent lover has become the first person to be convicted of family homicide in</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114942411492537505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114942411492537505&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114942411492537505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114942411492537505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims.html' title='The Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act - because you were too weak to run away.'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114691623003392297</id><published>2006-05-06T12:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T12:50:30.053+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The State of the Movement</title><summary type='text'>Fred Halliday, on OpenDemocracy assesses the achievements of feminism around the world, and hits the spot several times:"In a range of countries across Europe athough not noticeably in the curmudgeonly and unimaginative political arena of the United Kingdom Â it has become widely accepted that there need to be quotas for election candidates and ministerial appointments. In Spain, half of all </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114691623003392297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114691623003392297&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114691623003392297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114691623003392297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/05/state-of-movement.html' title='The State of the Movement'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114642925858696913</id><published>2006-04-30T21:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-30T21:34:18.610+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Deep Throat on Telewest</title><summary type='text'>The average serial rapist may be feeling discouraged lately, with all the talk about increacing conviction rates and 'justice'. But telewest are here to help out societies most undervalued devients...Real rape, on demand.£2.50 will get you as many replays and as much sexual violence-based masturbation as you can take.BushTelegraph suggests you tell Telewest where to stick it</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114642925858696913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114642925858696913&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114642925858696913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114642925858696913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/deep-throat-on-telewest.html' title='Deep Throat on Telewest'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114617698122476077</id><published>2006-04-27T23:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T23:29:41.226+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking: Bear shits in woods, Pope Catholic, Sky blue</title><summary type='text'>Undercover footage, taken for a documentary by a former (female) officerreveals the male populated and operated police is chauvanistic. They watch porn on duty, make sexist comments and treat rape as a second class crime. And this is news because...?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114617698122476077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114617698122476077&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114617698122476077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114617698122476077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/breaking-bear-shits-in-woods-pope.html' title='Breaking: Bear shits in woods, Pope Catholic, Sky blue'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114617643342535556</id><published>2006-04-27T23:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T23:20:33.426+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Protest Tomorrow: Rape Convictions</title><summary type='text'>From the Fem.Wires, A protest against pathetic conviction rates for rape cases, outside Southwark Crown Court, on Friday 28th April, at 10am.Sally Farmiloe to speak, and the whole event will be filmed for a pilot documentary about myths surrounding rape and conviction rates.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114617643342535556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114617643342535556&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114617643342535556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114617643342535556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/protest-tomorrow-rape-convictions.html' title='Protest Tomorrow: Rape Convictions'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114609271946547304</id><published>2006-04-26T22:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T00:05:19.496+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Shameless self promotion</title><summary type='text'>The VagMag blog has been kind of asleep lately - sorry. The magazine is in the after writing right before production stage where everything is hectic, and everything that can go wrong does.So far, disasters have been minimal. The copy is in, and all I can do is shamelessly proclaim the sheer brilliance of the volunteer writers. The wit. The insight. The illuminating analysis. It's </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114609271946547304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114609271946547304&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114609271946547304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114609271946547304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/shameless-self-promotion.html' title='Shameless self promotion'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114609443986961290</id><published>2006-04-25T00:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T00:33:59.883+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Discovery Channel plug subjugation, The Indie bites</title><summary type='text'>According to the Independent, middle class, socially mobile, liberated women who only do an equal share of all housework, and have fulfulling careers fettered only by illicit dreams of being a world class poledancer or reality TV star who has sex on live TV, love to clean.It must be innate.Or soothing.Something that doesn't hurt our brains.Or it could just be that it's another bullshit statistic </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114609443986961290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114609443986961290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114609443986961290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114609443986961290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/discovery-channel-plug-subjugation.html' title='The Discovery Channel plug subjugation, The Indie bites'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114501343231833214</id><published>2006-04-14T11:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T12:17:14.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't be a menace to Harlow while drinking your juice in Boreham Wood*</title><summary type='text'>According to the Guardian's Zoe Williams, and some uncredited, unmentioned (UCL) research, todays Jafaican slang is deeply mysogenistic. Words like sket, bitch and wifey (for the uninitiated, respectively, a promiscuous woman, the girlfriend and the babymomma):"define women by sexual function - denigrating them if they show any interest in sex themselves, ranging them according to their physical </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114501343231833214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114501343231833214&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114501343231833214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114501343231833214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/dont-be-menace-to-harlow-while.html' title='Don&apos;t be a menace to Harlow while drinking your juice in Boreham Wood*'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114484193532651319</id><published>2006-04-12T12:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T12:38:55.340+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Are Women Human?</title><summary type='text'>Creator of Feminism Unmodified Catherine MacKinnon says according to the law, society and Deep Throat style porn: Fuck no."If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels? Would we be sexual and reproductive slaves? Would we be bred, worked without pay our whole lives, burned when our dowry money wasn't enough or when men tired of us, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114484193532651319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114484193532651319&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114484193532651319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114484193532651319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-women-human.html' title='Are Women Human?'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114477190416039812</id><published>2006-04-11T16:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T23:19:35.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rape Convictions Protest</title><summary type='text'>From the Fem.Wires, A protest against pathetic conviction rates for rape cases, outside Southwark Crown Court, on Friday 28th April, at 10am.Sally Farmiloe to speak, and the whole event will be filmed for a pilot documentary about myths surrounding rape and conviction rates.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114477190416039812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114477190416039812&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114477190416039812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114477190416039812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/rape-convictions-protest.html' title='Rape Convictions Protest'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114467315411632743</id><published>2006-04-10T13:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T13:53:02.320+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The best defense: just don't get raped</title><summary type='text'>According to the Times, the number of CAUTIONS for people who admit to rape offenses has doubled... to 40.Yes cautions. A slap on the wrist and an entry on the sex offenders list (which we all check weekly). This is said to be predominantly in cases where the perp is exonerated on some level (too young, too old or educationally sun normal), with young offenders being re-educated.       "In 2004 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114467315411632743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114467315411632743&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114467315411632743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114467315411632743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/best-defense-just-dont-get-raped.html' title='The best defense: just don&apos;t get raped'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114467235491813670</id><published>2006-04-10T13:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T13:32:34.943+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pro-Life Nation</title><summary type='text'>An illuminating feature by New York Times abortion rights specialist Jack Hitt about Ecuadors outlawing of abortion in almost all cases (rape, incest and health included), the process and the consequences.The tension and contradiction between defining the criminal - the woman is seen as guilty for murder, but so is the abortionist, making the woman a victim - and the development of back-alley </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114467235491813670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114467235491813670&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114467235491813670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114467235491813670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/pro-life-nation.html' title='Pro-Life Nation'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114432495826087880</id><published>2006-04-06T12:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-07T12:42:35.836+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Duke rape case</title><summary type='text'>We may think we have it bad with the whole 5% rape convictions thing, but across the pond, the alledged beating, choking and gang rape of a black female student by three members of the lacrosse team (along with all it says about and says to the US about gender, race and class) has brought about the worst in punditism, highlights include:*The assertion that it was acceptable because she was a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114432495826087880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114432495826087880&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432495826087880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432495826087880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/duke-rape-case.html' title='The Duke rape case'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114432263677505960</id><published>2006-04-06T12:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-06T12:23:56.793+01:00</updated><title type='text'>If you can't beat 'em, join 'em</title><summary type='text'>After developing a 'psychological complex', five Saudi Arabian women have had sex changes in the past 12 months.I guess not being able to go anywhere or do anything without a male relative, the relative lack of opportunity and that whole second class citizen thing finally got to them. Who'd have thunk it?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114432263677505960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114432263677505960&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432263677505960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432263677505960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em.html' title='If you can&apos;t beat &apos;em, join &apos;em'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114389113197823577</id><published>2006-04-01T12:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T12:32:12.046+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Maureen Dowd necessary?</title><summary type='text'>NYT columnist Maureen Dowd is in the country schilling her new book: Are Men Nescessary, another tempered analysis of modern feminism. Her insights? Feminism Lasted for a nano-second in the sixties, and Paris Hilton is the new Zora Neale Hurston.And so, the shitstorm: In the Observer, who think it's crappyIn the Scotsman Who call it prattle of the sexesBut Cosmo liked it.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114389113197823577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114389113197823577&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114389113197823577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114389113197823577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/04/is-maureen-dowd-necessary.html' title='Is Maureen Dowd necessary?'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114432531933987529</id><published>2006-03-31T13:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-06T13:11:19.106+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Third Wave</title><summary type='text'>The revolution may not be televised, but it will be blogged: the Guardians technology segment illuminates female bloggers. It's totally inspiring.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114432531933987529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114432531933987529&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432531933987529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114432531933987529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/third-wave.html' title='The Third Wave'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114388976656780939</id><published>2006-03-27T19:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T12:09:26.686+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking: Feminists cause apocalypse</title><summary type='text'>Basically, in Prospect, Alison Wolf argues that: "For the first time in history, women in developed societies can take up any occupation or career they please [which] has had less positive consequencesÂthe death of sisterhood, a decline in female altruism and disincentives to bear children"For those of us who cant be arsed: Feminism, women get educated, get jobs almost as good as men's, don't </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114388976656780939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114388976656780939&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114388976656780939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114388976656780939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/breaking-feminists-cause-apocalypse.html' title='Breaking: Feminists cause apocalypse'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114388661870081943</id><published>2006-03-26T10:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T11:17:01.553+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Legit-porn gets porn treatment, kind of... well, not at all really</title><summary type='text'>Peope were disgusted, visibly pissed, made some noise, and won - Lads Mags, and other non-porn-pseudo-porn are being top shelved. Actually, that's complete crap:* It's not legally binding and entirely optional* It doesn't actually specify top shelf - it's more a kind of cover-up-the-porn-a-bit type measure (guidelines at the bottom of the page)* Lads Mags publishers are getting antsy - apparantly</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114388661870081943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114388661870081943&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114388661870081943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114388661870081943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/legit-porn-gets-porn-treatment-kind-of.html' title='Legit-porn gets porn treatment, kind of... well, not at all really'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114329257069510044</id><published>2006-03-23T13:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-04-01T11:20:26.813+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GQer Kate Taylor does... well, GQ</title><summary type='text'>Ex GQ columnist Kate Taylor tackles post feminism. Just like an ex GQ columnist. I read it online, so i'm not sure if there was an accompanying nude photoshoot.*Update*Ms Taylor caused quite the shitstorm:In the Letters page of the Guardian</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114329257069510044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114329257069510044&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114329257069510044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114329257069510044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/gqer-kate-taylor-does-well-gq.html' title='GQer Kate Taylor does... well, GQ'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114281454165169463</id><published>2006-03-20T00:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-20T00:29:01.743Z</updated><title type='text'>Ms Magazine: Rape survivors in the Congo</title><summary type='text'>At Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, two rape victims await vaginal surgery / photo by Stephanie Nolen from MsMagazine.com&gt;&gt;Ms Magazine's investigative report on rape survivors in the Congo is one of the few-and-far-between examples of journalism that almost make up for the existence of both Fox News and the Sun. It is perfect - background, perspective, cultural understanding, actual communing with the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114281454165169463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114281454165169463&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114281454165169463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114281454165169463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/ms-magazine-rape-survivors-in-congo.html' title='Ms Magazine: Rape survivors in the Congo'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114242658827370677</id><published>2006-03-15T12:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-15T12:53:26.580Z</updated><title type='text'>|Epicure| What we're doing tonight - ZIRIGIDUM!</title><summary type='text'>Dance CandombaDarbucka</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114242658827370677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114242658827370677&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114242658827370677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114242658827370677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/epicure-what-were-doing-tonight.html' title='|Epicure| What we&apos;re doing tonight - ZIRIGIDUM!'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114235213937712649</id><published>2006-03-14T15:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-15T11:53:39.706Z</updated><title type='text'>Yaa - We'll have to enforce our own rape penalties</title><summary type='text'>Reduced jail terms for rapists? This has got to be very, very sick joke. So not only will most rapists come vaguely close to be convicted, now they'll get off sooner if they do. And it sends out the message that despite government campaigns, they still don't take violence against women seriously. Luckily for the women of the world, the women of Vagina have a solution. As the governments of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114235213937712649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114235213937712649&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114235213937712649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114235213937712649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/yaa-well-have-to-enforce-our-own-rape.html' title='Yaa - We&apos;ll have to enforce our own rape penalties'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114221758158365791</id><published>2006-03-13T02:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-15T12:37:21.150Z</updated><title type='text'>|Epicure| This week's Epicure Tip - the Pussy Whistle</title><summary type='text'>In our never ending quest to find you stuff that is ultimately useless, but painfully cool, we present to you the Pussywhistle.32 limited edition hand made whistles, made with smooth, creamy terra sigillata clay and hand painted to resemble vaginas.With $76, 000 to pay off in student loans, recent art graduate, Joy Hope painstakingly cast and painted 50 cunt shaped whistles, 18 of which failed to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114221758158365791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114221758158365791&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114221758158365791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114221758158365791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/epicure-this-weeks-epicure-tip-pussy.html' title='|Epicure| This week&apos;s Epicure Tip - the Pussy Whistle'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114406271006805507</id><published>2006-03-09T12:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-04-03T12:11:50.080+01:00</updated><title type='text'>|Flag-it| Deisel go for sex, get creepy</title><summary type='text'>It's got to be the disembodied legs that do it. And the attempts to stylise the ad - the dark/ light contrast, the boot colours just seem more forced for it.Anywho, people complained, ad was banned.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114406271006805507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114406271006805507&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114406271006805507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114406271006805507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/03/flag-it-deisel-go-for-sex-get-creepy.html' title='|Flag-it| Deisel go for sex, get creepy'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114234986056312691</id><published>2006-02-20T15:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:37:32.796Z</updated><title type='text'>|Music| The pros and cons of selling out</title><summary type='text'>|Sarah Pearce|'Sell out' gets thrown around a lot, usually with little or no thought put behind it. This isn’t to say this phrase is never used correctly, but more frequently this is becoming the case and it really does fuck me off. Now, I said there are times when it’s used properly. For instance – imagine a band that has gained a loyal fan base thanks to a unique, interesting style and lyrics </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114234986056312691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114234986056312691&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114234986056312691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114234986056312691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/02/music-pros-and-cons-of-selling-out.html' title='|Music| The pros and cons of selling out'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114221391827135563</id><published>2006-02-14T10:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-13T01:49:22.310Z</updated><title type='text'>The Utter Cunt - Valentines Day sucks - and not in the good way</title><summary type='text'>|Sarah Pearce|I hate Valentines Day. I hate it with a passion that could be considered unhealthy. Instantly some of you will be thinking to yourselves “well, that’s probably just because no one sends you any cards. You are alone and loveless, and quite probably bitter and twisted as well. If someone was to send you a card, maybe some flowers, your heart would be opened and you’d see there’s </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114221391827135563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114221391827135563&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114221391827135563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114221391827135563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/02/utter-cunt-valentines-day-sucks-and.html' title='The Utter Cunt - Valentines Day sucks - and not in the good way'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-113916235929708778</id><published>2006-02-03T17:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:33:23.166Z</updated><title type='text'>|Flag It| Renault - sucking on soul, spitting out utter shite</title><summary type='text'>Jeremy Sheffield (from Holby City) argues with French Actress Annelise Hesme about which sucks less - Britain or France - the point being that the Renault Clio has the best of both - a French car with English designers. This, I couldn't care less about. My problem is them prattling on to the tune of Nina Simone's 'Sinnerman', turning a deeply personal, deeply felt song about redemption - a song </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/113916235929708778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=113916235929708778&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113916235929708778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113916235929708778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/02/flag-it-renault-sucking-on-soul.html' title='|Flag It| Renault - sucking on soul, spitting out utter shite'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-113708017507428355</id><published>2006-01-12T20:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:34:18.006Z</updated><title type='text'>|Flag It| Sensodyne whitening toothpaste - for that porn star smile</title><summary type='text'>So it's whitening toothpaste. For sensitive teeth. Perfect. Because if you want whitening toothpaste but have sensitive teeth, this is your dental messiah.And why would your sensitive teeth need whitening? For the blokes.Because you're a worthless whore, and you need to prove that you're pure and clean, so everything has to look untouched.Sensodyne: because you're nothing unless men are sexually </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/113708017507428355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=113708017507428355&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113708017507428355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113708017507428355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2006/01/flag-it-sensodyne-whitening-toothpaste.html' title='|Flag It| Sensodyne whitening toothpaste - for that porn star smile'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114204032966692819</id><published>2005-12-03T23:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-13T00:08:47.700Z</updated><title type='text'>The Body Bitch - Pederasty, Hair and Nair</title><summary type='text'>I get the armpit, crotch and arse shaving thing for hygiene reasons. Nobody wants a forest of dried crap caught in arse hair, or that permanent musty underarm nightmare smell. The wipe clean, never any hair there thing I really don't get."Welcome to nature"People only shave clean because of the cultural message that body hair is unacceptable - especially on women. And women often have body hair -</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114204032966692819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114204032966692819&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114204032966692819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114204032966692819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/12/body-bitch-pederasty-hair-and-nair.html' title='The Body Bitch - Pederasty, Hair and Nair'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114203733188840485</id><published>2005-11-15T00:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:35:17.353Z</updated><title type='text'>|Editorial| Genital Revolution: Why We're Doing This</title><summary type='text'>The vast majority of popular culture is all a bit shite, really. The music is as soulless as the people making it, while real music languishes and dies in the wake of multi-million pound advertising campaigns.       The clothes are cheap repositories of human misery and pathetic, derivative design, devoid of imagination. And despite having more access than ever to the world, we know fuck all </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114203733188840485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114203733188840485&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203733188840485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203733188840485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/11/editorial-genital-revolution-why-were.html' title='|Editorial| Genital Revolution: Why We&apos;re Doing This'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114234911818361342</id><published>2005-11-14T18:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:32:20.060Z</updated><title type='text'>|Music| Vagina's Music Policy</title><summary type='text'>First things first, I know we said we’d give you music that would make you think, but I’m coming more and more to the conclusion that ALL music can be thought provoking (even if the thought is just “man, the Pussy Cat Dolls really are shit”), so allow me to make a slight amendment – We here at Vagina shall attempt to give you music that isn’t complete wank. Herein lies my second problem. The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/114234911818361342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=114234911818361342&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114234911818361342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114234911818361342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/11/music-vaginas-music-policy.html' title='|Music| Vagina&apos;s Music Policy'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114203989987063941</id><published>2005-11-11T13:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T15:36:21.370Z</updated><title type='text'>|Body Art| Fashion Statements</title><summary type='text'>Stylin' at Annie's Vintage Clothing &gt;&gt;High Street couture is pathetic. It's all about the art of copying the season's prêt a porter lines, which are usually based on what the "kids on the street" were wearing the season before.Case in point: shorts in winter. Last year, it was purely street in the world's urban centres to wear shorts, or short pants or culottes in winter. They were worn with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203989987063941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203989987063941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/11/body-art-fashion-statements.html' title='|Body Art| Fashion Statements'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-114203872960481274</id><published>2005-11-10T10:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-11T01:10:21.276Z</updated><title type='text'>Explaining Ourselves - The Name</title><summary type='text'>First, to confirm all suspicions, it's mostly because of the reaction. You were shocked, right? Appalled, deeply offended, or at least vaguely amused. We hope. Calling our baby Vagina is all about why you had that reaction, because most of it probably wasn't inspired by an actual Vagina. It's just there.  Sure there's plenty to be had from - and in - it, and all of it is very, very good. Fabulous</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203872960481274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/114203872960481274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/11/explaining-ourselves-name.html' title='Explaining Ourselves - The Name'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-113133887965435290</id><published>2005-11-07T04:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-07T04:56:55.220Z</updated><title type='text'>rah, freaking rah</title><summary type='text'>Rokit, Camden, London</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/113133887965435290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=113133887965435290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113133887965435290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/113133887965435290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/11/rah-freaking-rah.html' title='rah, freaking rah'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15201093.post-112345348534091817</id><published>2005-08-07T23:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-08-07T23:24:45.346+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It begins.</title><summary type='text'>Um, thats it.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/feeds/112345348534091817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15201093&amp;postID=112345348534091817&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/112345348534091817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15201093/posts/default/112345348534091817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vaginamagazine.blogspot.com/2005/08/it-begins.html' title='It begins.'/><author><name>Yiskra</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01027283448682087362</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.vaginamagazine.co.uk/assets/VergeCovermini.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
