Elizabeth Flux
is it okay: to use the words feminine and masculine?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that grammar trolls are extremely popular people. Picking on someone’s spelling and punctuation rather than their arguments and ideas is clearly taking the high road, and being nitpicky is definitely something that shouldn’t be associated with pince-nez and monkeys grooming each other for fleas. Or maybe I’ve got that [...]
is it okay: for women to fight on the front line?
If you had asked me this question at 15, there would have been no delay; just a clear, unequivocal yes. However, at the same age, if you had asked me the meaning of life and who I would have married the answers would have been just as immediate. Education. Work. Happiness. Orlando Bloom. When I [...]
is it okay: to slut shame?
When a group of professional women raise hemlines and lower necklines when they go out on a Saturday night, they are “letting the team down”. If two women decide to make out in order to impress a man, they are bowing to societal expectations. Allowing women to fight on the front line is not a [...]
is it okay: to go to the shops in your pyjamas?
It seems as though life is really a costume party. There is set appropriate attire for specific occasions, and deviation from these norms will be met with raised eyebrows and questions about your ability to understand what is ‘good and proper’. While to a degree this might seem all very 1800s-oh-Mr-Darcy-please-hold-my-parasol, the underlying ideals that [...]
is it okay: to read certain books in public?
There are things it is definitely not okay to do in public. Such as: be naked for no good reason, have overly emotive and loud conversations, stare at strangers for prolonged periods of time, and vigorously use dental floss. I have only ever been guilty of one of these things. However a recent encounter involving [...]
Is it okay: to be passive aggressive?
In past times of discontent I have been guilty of the occasional door slam, walking louder than necessary, making oblique comments with thinly veiled double meanings, and aggressively playing songs that I know get on the nerves of my at-that-moment-enemy. It doesn’t matter that they are in their own house many kilometres away, and I [...]
is it okay: to not wear a bra?
Bras happen around the age of ten. While I don’t know what the experience is like for others, for me it was something I was dragged into almost kicking and screaming. In my mind, the ‘b’ word was something taboo, awkward, only to be mentioned on pain of death. One girl with no such restrictions, [...]
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