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    29 / 2 / 2012

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    So borrowed my sister’s March issue of Cosmo to read because I find some articles fun and others stupidly entertaining. Apparently they have this campaign going on called ‘the F-word’ (being Feminism btw). Now I’ll admit I glossed over the article because I can read all the stats about the number of underpaid women and higher amount of men in parliament on here, but the article seems pretty sound - it doesn’t just mention money either, it goes into abortion etc. too. It has a lot of pictures of British celebs (mostly women) in a cute white T-shirt with the logo above pictured. I was probably the most impressed by the way it went about describing the stigma around the word feminism and how much of a problem that stigma is. (I remember being what 12 sitting on a swing with my best friend and when I said I was a feminist she scoffed at me and acted like it was the most awful thing in the world - now I know it was her rather oafish father putting crappy ideas in her head possibly a good thing she doesn’t talk to me anymore tbh. That experience alone stopped me identifiying as a feminist for a good few years). Anyway - what I’m getting at is this is all well and good, but it’s coming from Cosmo and I’m worried. I mean have they only just noticed now? Are they just saying this because of the way all this Rick Santorum crap is blowing up and their editor suddenly thought it might be on trend to be a feminist for a month? Should I be happy about their drawing attention to the issue of pissed with them for jumping on the band-wagon? All I know is I like the t-shirt and I’d buy myself one - but I wouldn’t want to be supporting something that damaged feminism rather than supported it… (Was also quite happy about their ‘feminist opinion on Vagazzle’. The woman against it kicked arse).

    So borrowed my sister’s March issue of Cosmo to read because I find some articles fun and others stupidly entertaining.

    Apparently they have this campaign going on called ‘the F-word’ (being Feminism btw). Now I’ll admit I glossed over the article because I can read all the stats about the number of underpaid women and higher amount of men in parliament on here, but the article seems pretty sound - it doesn’t just mention money either, it goes into abortion etc. too. It has a lot of pictures of British celebs (mostly women) in a cute white T-shirt with the logo above pictured.

    I was probably the most impressed by the way it went about describing the stigma around the word feminism and how much of a problem that stigma is. (I remember being what 12 sitting on a swing with my best friend and when I said I was a feminist she scoffed at me and acted like it was the most awful thing in the world - now I know it was her rather oafish father putting crappy ideas in her head possibly a good thing she doesn’t talk to me anymore tbh. That experience alone stopped me identifiying as a feminist for a good few years).

    Anyway - what I’m getting at is this is all well and good, but it’s coming from Cosmo and I’m worried. I mean have they only just noticed now? Are they just saying this because of the way all this Rick Santorum crap is blowing up and their editor suddenly thought it might be on trend to be a feminist for a month? Should I be happy about their drawing attention to the issue of pissed with them for jumping on the band-wagon? All I know is I like the t-shirt and I’d buy myself one - but I wouldn’t want to be supporting something that damaged feminism rather than supported it…


    (Was also quite happy about their ‘feminist opinion on Vagazzle’. The woman against it kicked arse).