‘I’d like to send a hilarious YouTube clip to a friend but I’m worried she’ll think I’m a smug mother,’ says my friend Jennifer.
Under normal circumstances Jennifer’s friend would appreciate the humour and cuteness of a baby playing with a Labrador puppy. But these are not normal circumstances. Jennifer’s friend is trying to conceive… more…
Regardless of whether we are supporting, criticising, or comparing Kate Middleton’s appearance, we’re all participating in turning a woman into an object to be scrutinised and judged.
We already knew that most female bodies do not meet the cultural definition of beauty – and by implication, value and success – but according to Toyota the definition of beauty is now so far out of reach for women that you need to be a teenage boy to attain it.
A recent study shows that even our judges, the people we expect to be impartial, are accepting the myth that DV perpetrators are just ‘good men who made bad choices’.