Apparently humans as a group are a gas. Not so much in the 1950s tea party oh-my-goodness-he’s-so-funny kind of way, but in the way we will spread out to fill whatever space we’re given – equidistantly. People just hate sitting next to strangers. We’ve all seen it – at the doctor’s, in a lecture, on…
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When I see other women walking, running or even dancing in high heels, I am always amazed. Similar to watching a trapeze artist, or someone eating a yiros without dropping 37% of it into their lap, these are skills beyond my reach. Walking in flat shoes I’m already clumsy and ungainly enough to have from…
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“I knew things were too good to last”. It’s 11am on a Sunday morning. Everywhere that isn’t bed is far too cold, and the only thing I can reach is my phone. Facebook is alight with hangover regret and pictures of kittens. In between this and the severely under-liked political commentary lurks a serial vaguebooker,…
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In my old place of work we had a framed A4 sheet of paper. I’m not sure how long it had been there – long enough to be vaguely yellowed and slightly water-stained, but I guess that’s to be expected for something stored over the sink. Titled “A Customer Is”, the document basically served as…
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Hopefully by the age of four everyone has been taught about “stranger danger”. Don’t accept random candy, avoid white vans like the plague, and anyone remotely “shifty” looking or wearing a trench coat is to be avoided at all costs. But, we grow up, we learn about acceptance, and the deceptiveness of appearance. Fairytales didn’t…
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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…
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