I have this friend who's in the year below me who insists that certain sexist institutions within society should be tolerated based on the fact that a couple million years ago there was a biological b...
This weekend I will be testing for my black belt after eight years of Taekwondo classes. During those eight years, I’ve grown into the person I am today. Not only have I learned how to kick, punch, an...
CocknBullKid has made a couple of important transitions recently. First, she's changed her name, dropping the pronoun (she's CocknBullKid, not The CocknBullKid). And secondly, she has emerged from a c...
As many of you, as frequenters of the Internet, probably know, in 2007 young adult author John Green and his brother, an environmental blogger named Hank Green, started a video blog called Brotherhood...
It began as a whisper, of one woman leaning into the ear of another, "Do you feel it?" she asked.
Then whispered to another, "Do you feel it?" and it began to spread, this whisper, from one woman to ...
We don’t live in a vacuum. Our ideas, our lexicon, and our beliefs are shaped by outside forces like society, culture, environment, and religion. Fields like sociology and anthropology prove that.
Wo...
From a very young age my mother instilled in me a certain logic, if you can call it that. There were clothes that could be worn to school, to friends houses, out to dinner and to events and then there...
For anyone who doesn't know, The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler. Each monologue deals with an issue relating to the vagina. Topics cover everything from love and masturb...
Theoretical Girl is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Southend-on-Sea who makes electro-folk-pop on her 8-track in her bedroom. She has been doing so since 2006.
Theoretical Gir...
You may have heard about the private behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi - the male chauvinist politician that opened his door to protégées and lovers. Add this to Italian culture of degrading media and th...
I don’t like being patronized. I know this probably isn't shocking, but I seriously HATE it. It also annoys me to no end when people patronize womankind.
This year, I’m taking AP European History. Ig...
It pains me a little bit to say this, but I have to admit it. I'm kind of a hypocrite. I've spent over a year on this blog exploring most every facet of being a teen girl in this culture through a fem...
When I was nine years old, I secretly dreamed of becoming a model.
I still wanted to be a writer, of course, but hey, a girl can dream, right? My family doctor had told my parents that because of the...