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Today is officially my last day writing for Dollymix. It's been over a year since we first launched, and I wish nothing but the best to all you Dollymix readers out there. May you always despise the sexist bastards out there as much as I do. For my last column, I thought I would share with you some of the little pearls of wisdom I've learned during my year of stimulating your lady-brains with my thought-candy:
-Women actually agree with each other more than you think
There have been times where I've gone to write a bitter column about friend problems or just ranting about certain things going on in the media, and I thought that I would surely step on someone's toes or piss someone off. However, more often then not, I'm met with agreement from our lovely reader. When it comes to female equality, it seems that there more women who are willing to be apart of an equal, sane sisterhood than I originally though.
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I don't pretend to know everything there is to know about politics. I understand that politicians know much more than I do, and that they have a very tough job on their hands. However, sometimes I feel like they really have no clue what it is that they're doing. The Times have reported that the UK government is outlining plans for a new Equalities Bill that will promote equality at work.
While I agree that stopping pensioners being denied NHS treatment because of their age and giving mothers the right to breastfeed in public is the right thing to do is the right thing to do, I still disagree with other elements of The Bill.
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When I first saw the trailer for Baby Mama, I was excited. When I found out that it beat out Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay for the number one spot at the US box office in April, I was even more excited. However, the actual movie itself left me rather, erm...underwhelmed. I'm a huge Tina Fey and Amy Poehler fan, and am a big supporter of female driven movies. I wanted to love this movie, and I was hoping it would be indicative of how women are starting to shift the world of film.
Walking through the Tube station at Oxford Circus on my way to the screening I, at one point, was surrounded by movie posters for female driven films: The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller; the WWII film Female Agents. It was a fantastic feeling. I thought Baby Mama would make me proud and make me feel like we had finally kicked the "Women Aren't Funny" stereotype in the ass. Baby Mama just seemed to softly step on it's big toe.
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The world is shocked, shocked that someone as pretty as Lily Cole could possibly be smart enough to go to Cambridge. But alas, she is, and is therefore an incredibly unique woman who somehow manages to balance being both smart and attractive. This is a difficult balance when you're a mortal, but even more difficult as a celebrity. Yet, lucky for Lily, The Times say that being smart is like so hot right now:
She is the latest in a line of photogenic brainiacs making headlines by choosing the path of the bluestocking. Natalie Portman did it; so did Jodie Foster. Yet her decision seems of-the-moment. Nerd is in.
Ah, yes. Natalie Portman and Jodie Foster. Both of whom went to University how many years ago?
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While we've discussed the fantastic comments one can receive if you're an opinionated, female blogger before, this past week was a rather interesting one. Last week, I wrote an open letter to Perez Hilton, asking him to stop ragging on Rumer Willis' face. What I found interesting was that some people thought that Perez Hilton was in the right, because Rumer "is not exactly the prettiest girl out there" and that "he will just keep ridiculing her until she fixes what she can". The attitude that there is something to "fix" on Rumer's face is the attitude that gets me. Fix? Is her face broken?
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Dear Perez Hilton,
Please lay off of Rumer Willis. I know nothing about her, nor do I really care what she gets up to. From what I hear she is trying to make her own money and actually work so that she is not just mooching off of her parent's money and reputation. Personally, I find this rather endearing, but what do I know. I'm not of the Hollywood mentality.
You have done nothing but rag on Rumor's appearance and criticize her face by constantly calling her 'Potato Head' and pointing out how much better her mother, Demi Moore, looks than her: "When your almost 50-year-old mother looks better than you and you're barely out of your teens, you're fucked." Wow.
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Today's Time's Family Secrets features a woman who despite her husband being a "brilliant dad" says that she wishes that she would have married for money instead of love. One might think this woman's husband, Bill, is a bin man. Or perhaps only makes minimum wage, and spends most of his time playing Wii Bowling than he does working. But, it turns out that Bill is actually a teacher, the head of his department and greatly enjoys his job.
Yet this woman, let's call her Greedy Pants, just can't get over the fact that all her friend's husbands make £250k a year and can whisk their wives off to Paris for their birthdays. (Well, if they're not away on a business trip, that is.)
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Just for the record, I couldn't give a shit about Mischa Barton's or Fergie's thighs or Keira Knightley's weight. However, it appears that the media definitely thinks otherwise. I really don't want to get into why The Daily Mail is the worst newspaper of all time, or why The Times should really lay off telling us how much Mariah Carey's legs and Dolly Parton's boobs are insured for. (As my fingers may fall off.) But I'm surprised that to some extent, even The Guardian is hopping on the "let's talk about everyone else's bodies" bandwagon by having Hadley Freeman answer some woman's inquiry about "what's going on" with Bill Clinton's hair.
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Now, I've said some bitchy things about Lily Allen in the past, which I've apologized for. (Because, you know, she must read Dollymix.) But I really, really like the girl. I think she's feisty, audacious and isn't afraid to make mistakes. However, there seems to be one person out there who really, really hates Lily: Perez Hilton. Since Lily's tragic miscarriage earlier this year, Hilton has done nothing but point out what a "train wreck" Lily is, and even hinted that her smoking and drinking during her pregnancy was the true reason behind her miscarriage.
However, not being one to just let the media walk all over her, Lily wrote a response to Perez Hilton, defending her alleged rivalry with Katy Perry. In her blog post, Lily insisted that "I've got nothing against Perez personally" but that "it's not fair to say that I'm washed up and it's not fair to make up these feuds between people". In response, Perez called her a liar and an idiot. Nice, huh?
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Yesterday I harped on about how the news for women in the major newspapers in the UK was boring as, well, men apparently. But today I'm pleased to announced that while things are equally as bleak (Colleen's getting married! Women think about shopping a lot!) there's a rebuttal from Neil Tweedie in response to Sabine Durrant's rant about boring men in yesterday's Telegraph. I thought I would be reduced to a heap of dismay and irritation upon reading Tweedie's "And you call us boring?" article, however, I sadly ended up nodding my head.
Call me a misgogynist or a bad feminist if you so wish, but I can't deny that most of what women feel they should care about or discuss with other women is very, very boring. I don't think that women are actually boring, I just think the social rules that we play by and the things we buy into (like girly shopping and dieting) are about as exciting to listen to as a getting a pap smear.
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Today is officially my last day writing for Dollymix. It's been over a year since we first launched, and I wish nothing but the best to all you Dollymix readers out there. May you always despise the sexist bastards out there as much as I do. For my last column, I thought I would share with you some of the little pearls of wisdom I've learned during my year of stimulating your lady-brains with my thought-candy:
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