Archive for the ‘social norms’ Category

sister sonia the social pariah: we must silence dissent!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

go ayeshe!amusing title for a post eh? sister sonia the social pariah.  much as i would like to claim that as one of my witty inventions, i'm afraid the glory must be given over to one Pickled Politics commentator, who goes by the name Ashik.  it sounds as though it ...

the cannabis debate AGAIN?

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

why must we always go backwards? instead of making progress with the cannabis issue - like getting closer and closer to legalization, no no let's go back. [and who said the government didn't have a reverse gear?] that miserable charles clarke ( is it sth with Home Secrataries - they just ...

Fat and Feminism?

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse.An interesting analysis of ...