Is that Caitlin's excuse?Her article in today's Times magazine is unbelievable! The gist is "women find winter harder than men" because (wait for it): they are more likely to slip on ice in high heels, and they get bad hat hair.
Imagine if this had been written by a man.
It is a terrible piece, but she was clearly being facetious about high heels and beauty pageants. Her actual point was that we’re more likely to slip because we have smaller feet and larger chests, which is nicely alienating for all the women out there who have small breasts, or have had mastectomies, or large feet etc etc.Her article in today's Times magazine is unbelievable! The gist is "women find winter harder than men" because (wait for it): they are more likely to slip on ice in high heels, and they get bad hat hair.
Imagine if this had been written by a man.
Wow could she love herself anymore than she already does?It is a terrible piece, but she was clearly being facetious about high heels and beauty pageants. Her actual point was that we’re more likely to slip because we have smaller feet and larger chests, which is nicely alienating for all the women out there who have small breasts, or have had mastectomies, or large feet etc etc.
I did enjoy her bemoaning women gaining weight more easily from winter comfort foods, yet again proving her feminism is based solely on her own experiences and is badly out of date. Maybe some women want to gain or even need to gain weight? Maybe some of us have evolved beyond caring that we gained two pounds from eating pies at Christmas? As per usual, she has to stretch herself out so thinly to reach her column word count.
Perhaps The Times can just edit it to be called Why Winter Is The Worst Season For Me, Caitlin Moran, Because I Have Tiny Feet AND BIG NORKS AND A SHIT METABOLISM AND MY HAIR LOOKS CRAP AFTER WEARING A HAT LOL FEMINISM
It is the implication that women are constantly aiming to lose weight which really annoyed me. I really don't get who likes her columns, they jsut seem so datedIt is a terrible piece, but she was clearly being facetious about high heels and beauty pageants. Her actual point was that we’re more likely to slip because we have smaller feet and larger chests, which is nicely alienating for all the women out there who have small breasts, or have had mastectomies, or large feet etc etc.
I did enjoy her bemoaning women gaining weight more easily from winter comfort foods, yet again proving her feminism is based solely on her own experiences and is badly out of date. Maybe some women want to gain or even need to gain weight? Maybe some of us have evolved beyond caring that we gained two pounds from eating pies at Christmas? As per usual, she has to stretch herself out so thinly to reach her column word count.
Perhaps The Times can just edit it to be called Why Winter Is The Worst Season For Me, Caitlin Moran, Because I Have Tiny Feet AND BIG NORKS AND A SHIT METABOLISM AND MY HAIR LOOKS CRAP AFTER WEARING A HAT LOL FEMINISM
I laugh at myself for thinking that too! I can’t believe I liked her so muchI still laugh at her thinking that how to be a woman is some kind of important feminist tome
Excellent point.You’d think given her daughter’s eating disorder she’d be more careful. Or have copped on to the subtle/not subtle/ insidious/ constant/ blatant toxic messaging about women and their bodies and how much space they do or don’t occupy.
I read this as "90s Powerpuff Girl pieces" and it took me a good 15 seconds to unscramble it in my mindShe thinks she's doing women a favour with these 90s girl power puff pieces. Cringe
Yep I agree, I used to find it amusing too. I think it’s a weird mixture of her not actually evolving past her early 90s “feminist” persona but also repeating a lot of the woke guff that her teenage daughters no doubt “teach” her about. I’m sure the piece about hating winter said something about “the main two genders” for example.I'm afraid to say I used to find Celeb Watch funny. I don't know if I've changed or she has, but these days i find it too cringeworrhy to read.
I don’t know, I think most of them are very believable. A lot of those women are both totally gorgeous and incredibly talented, and I have to say most men I know are much more into some of those examples than nameless underwear models. I can see women my own partner, my brother and my brother-in-law all are known to have crushes on in that list (suspect my own partner may have tweeted Sharon Horgan as his suggestionSo Caitlin asked her man twitter followers to vote on their ideal celebrity wife "for a thing" yesterday....
Can anyone explain to me the phenomenon exhibited in the replies? Liza Tarbuck, Sara Cox, Kathy Burke, Gillian Anderson, Emma Thompson, Michelle Obama.... I like all these women but, I'm sorry, am I being cynical or are these BS answers to "best celebrity wife"? There seems to be a specific species of middle class man who likes to affirm their progressiveness by refusing to admit they fancy underwear models and instead pretending they are solely interested in middle-aged, fairly average looking, op-ed writing media types?
I mean perhaps this is totally legitimate, but I don't think women feel guilty about admitted their fantasy celeb husband would be Brad Pitt so why do some guys feel the need to pretend the height of their fantasies are these pointedly "real women". Is it because they are then patted on the head by the likes of Caitlin, who approvingly calls these choices "very cheering". I think the implication is its a nice surprise to find out men don't just want a load of 25 year old footballers girlfriends...but to be honest it just seems to prove a lot of guys are using women to disingenuously position themselves as "good" men.
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