My favorite source for silly journalism, The UK Daily Mail Online, has posted an article entitled: “Why Angelina Jolie movies give girls the feelbad factor.”
Apparently Ms. Jolie has been voted both a better role model than Kathy Bates, but at the same time Jolie’s pouty lips and big boobs cause women to feel subconsciously worse about themselves by encouraging unrealistic expectations. But that’s rather the point of …
The Daily Mail‘s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown thinks so. Albhai-Brown believes that Beyoncé’s current look of long blonde hair and light skin is ruining what black and Asian women think about themselves. In fact, “Too many black and Asian children grow up understanding the sad truth that to have dark skin is to be somehow inferior,” the author says. Her sentiment isn’t a new one, but what does this have to do with Beyoncé?
One might argue that she’s a grown woman, and can do whatever she wants: “On one level, you might say this altering of appearance is just women enjoying themselves — selecting different colours, shapes and styles to become what they want. But there is more too it than that; precisely because they never make themselves look darker.” Alibhai-Brown believes that Beyoncé is “betraying her heritage”, and compares her to Jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, who she claimed never did so themselves. To the author, Beyoncé is more in line with Tina Turner (in fact, they show great respect for each other, and have performed together as well), who purposefully …
Here in the UK, the government won’t allow women to take what is commonly (though ambiguously I think) known in the US as the ‘abortion pill’ at home. This is despite overwhelming evidence that it is safe to do so. And, after ten years of trying to get the government to change their stance on this, one abortion provider is now taking the UK government to court in a last-ditch attempt to change things.
The ‘abortion pill,’ as it is commonly known in the US, or ‘medical abortion’ as it is more commonly known on this side of the pond, requires two doses, taken 24-48 hours apart. In most countries …
The UK’s Daily Mail runs a piece this morning regarding Tracey Stevens, a 45 year old woman who is reportedly Britain’s first victim of a health scandal regarding faulty and potentially life-threatening breast implants. The Daily Mail states that:
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