Two elastic straps
The oppression of women
Dangerous wild girl
Two Elastic Straps
Tag: Femininity
Love as a Transaction: Calculating the Share of Emotional Labour
“The issue of emotional labour, and most notably women’s often unequal share of the load, has been hotly contested in recent times. Some describe it as one of the new frontiers of modern-day feminism, while others are sceptical and see it as overanalysing the situation or ascribing unnecessary blame.”
Have You Tried a Heat Pack?
“When I finally came across a specialist who took me seriously, I meekly told her: ‘I promise I’m not lying.’ But by that point, I wasn’t even convinced.”
Girl Meets Physics
“Popular culture would have you believe that to study science, let alone physics, you must possess a specific set of character traits. For the most part, these stereotypes mean the ideal prospective science student is anti-social, computer-like and nerdish beyond comprehension.”
Becoming Abreast of the Female Chest Debate
“They stopped, scrunched up their noses, and my brother quickly said: ‘Girls can’t take their shirts off – only boys!’”
In Defence of Arts: Two Perspectives
“PSA: It’s time to stop claiming that a Bachelor of Arts is ‘useless’.”
Cooking in the Eye of the Storm
“We need to encourage people of all genders to embrace cooking as a form of emotional expression and as a basic survival skill.”
Poverty and Insecure Work Through a Gendered Lens
“The fact that women work in low-paid jobs says less about their capabilities than it does about the devaluation of ‘women’s work’ and the implicit assumption that women are unworthy of workplace protections and economic freedom.”
Out of Time, Out of (My) Mind?
“Now, although obviously not broken, the glass ceiling has been chipped enough so that the broken shards offer women a reflection of life at the top.”
Modern Chivalry: From Sleeping Beauty to Woke Beauty
“… the main problem in her not-so-fair kingdom: chivalry had become synonymous with chauvinism. Really, the two concepts had about as much in common as a poison apple and a spinning wheel!”