Status Updates From Girl Up

This is a dnf, not because of the book but because I am just too old and established to be the target. Will definitely pass this on so younger girls can use it's wisdom brought with humour

In reality, feminism means one simple thing: believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Or, more formally, it’s the belief in the right of women to have social, economic, political, cultural and personal equality with men.

If the cover of a magazine says ‘Curves Are Back!’ one week but ‘Amazing Celeb Bikini Weight Loss’ the next, which part of myself am I supposed to hate?

Girls don’t owe guys just for being nice.

SCREAM IT.

We need to talk about genitals. We need to talk about hoohas and doodahs and winkies and twinkies and we need to talk about why we can’t use the real names when we discuss them. We need to ask why we’ve tried so desperately to avoid talking frankly about genitalia that we’ve managed to come up with an impressively long list of alternative words to describe them. Trust me – I’ve Googled them.