There is a special place in hell...

My deep loathing for Daily Mail's columnists shall clearly never falter as they have given me another gem today in the form of Bel Mooney.
Ms Mooney claims that the 60's sexual revolution is to blame for, if not all, but most that is wrong with society today. It is "wrecking women's lives today". Here are some of the best of the best of her rantings:

"People have always had sex before marriage" Oh horrible thought...

"Ladette behaviour is a direct result of the freedom women fought for"
SAY WHAT?! Since when is there a connection between drunken women behaving badly (let's take that part of ladetteness for example) a result of feminism?

"The university Student Health Centre handed out the Pill like sweeties. So you wouldn't get pregnant - good. But at the same time you had no reason to be careful - bad."
I have said it before and I say it again - you live in a country where 13-year olds have babies! Why on earth would you preach against the Pill, this country needs more Pills not less!

“Sex, which in previous eras was private (even taboo), became public, with the result that women were expected - in their love lives - to demonstrate the expertise of prostitutes. Except these 'liberated' women gave it away for free. “
Who expects this Ms Mooney? Your partner? THEN LEAVE HIM. Mine sure doesn’t and I don’t know any man who does. And secondly, so talking about sex, making it no longer taboo, has turned us all into prossies in the eyes of men? So it was better when sex was something bad, hush hush and first and foremost no fun ? If you want to regard sex as private you might as well regard eating equally taboo - they are both part of human life and our needs.

“Is it any wonder that the phenomenon of young teenage boys expecting their girlfriends to provide sexual gratification at any time (on a school bus, for example, according to Susie Orbach) leaves girls feeling abused and full of hate for their bodies"
Now we’re really, really not on the same page anymore, so what you are saying, Ms Mooney is that young girls disliking their bodies is a modern day phenomenon unheard of before the 60’s? And that the female sexual revolution is to blame? She is getting lost in her own arguments blubbering things that has nothing to do with women freeing themselves in the 60’s.


Read this sad excuse for journalism here

Student journalism, live births and a woman deserving a slap

1. If you have the possibility - go and grab the new edition of UMMM.. magazine, Medway campus' student mag (and obviously read my article about international students).

2. Live streamed birth? No thank you! Keep your beef-bush to yourself young lady! If I want to induce nightmares by watching things being born in a monstrous way - I'll rent Alien. Read The Telegraph's Lucy Jones' exchellente columnon the matter here

3. Head of an All Girls School and president of the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) Jill Berry is speaking out in The Independent trying to calm all young women down stating that we shouldn't expect to "have-it-all" because it probably wont happen. Quoting the article "Mrs Berry said that girls should "stop beating themselves up" if they cannot juggle a career with being a wife and mother at the same time.". First of all: Sod off. You are a role model for young girls and you need to tell them that they can achieve whatever they set their minds to. "There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women" - Madeleine K. Albright (I have quoted her before and I will happily do it again).
And secondly: In that case, what is the defenition of "having it all"? Does having a career and working hard by default mean that you are doing it to get "a flash sports car with a baby seat in the back". It seems like people who are commenting on the "having-it-all"-syndrome think that career bitches also juggling motherhood does it all for the money.
I am going to be a journalist career bitch - what money?

LIVE COMMENT ON NICK GRIFFIN ON QUESTION TIME:

"I do not believe in the teaching of homosexuality to primary school children "
I don't know what you call them over here but in Sweden we call them wankers.
He also does not believe in any form of sexual information to primary school children
Nick Griffin, you live in a country where 13-year olds have babies. Enough said.

To be honest, Nick Griffin, I don't believe in the teaching of you to primary school kids. I'd just show them your picture and tell them to run from the Boogeyman...

LibQ, darling - Im sorry, it's not me, it's you...

It had to come to this...
I want out.

Don't get me wrong. I love university and all that jazz but,

pardon my french,

LIBERTY QUAYS SUCKS MARSUPIAL TESTICLES

Let's set aside the fact that the internet isn't reliable, that we sometimes do not have hot water, that there is no connection with the outer world in the form of proper buses, AND that I pay 400 £ a month to live in a sodding broom cupboard -my biggest problem is as follows:

I have been living on my own for a year now. I am used to having a flat belongs to me and the others who live in it - under the conditions of renting of course. My room is my room and my kitchen is definitely my kitchen (I would add that my living room is my living room - but I don't have one!). Liberty Quays clearly has another view.

They do come in to check our kitchen - fine by me to be honest, because they have let us know beforehand.

No, that's not it.
What royally pisses me off is that they see it fit to simply walk through our door as often as they like. Yesterday afternoon I found two men in my corridor. They clearly heard me walk out from my room on my way to the kitchen but still they didn't even look up or recognise the fact that one of the tenants was there and that maybe they ought to say hi.
Not only have they entered my flat without warning - they do not even respect me enough to greet me or explain WHAT THE BLOODY HELL THEY'RE DOING IN MY FLAT!

I want out. Now.

If I have to stay here til the end of summer term, I might hang myself from one of the lamps without shades.

"We can't have her represent us - what a heifer!"

Say hi to Filippa Hamilton. She's 23 years old, 5ft7, works as a model and has a BMI of 17. The limit for underweight is 18-18.5 so she's got some work to do - according to any doctor caring for someone's health. However, according to Ralph Lauren whom she has been working for for years she is a chubster.

They recently published this picture:

It is very disturbing and has upset a whole world. It is heavily tampered with - Filippa's head is bigger than her waist.

This is what she normally looks like:

Still skinny, slim and slender, but within reason. But no, no, no not in Ralph Lauren's book. Last week this beautiful pride and joy of Sweden, who pulls a UK size 4, was fired for being too fat.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Or buy a rifle.

Surprise! The White House under Bush was full of delusional orthodox christians!

Oh no he didn't!

A book by George W Bush's former speechwriter reveals that officials in the White House did not want J.K. Rowling to recieve the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Why?

The Harry Potter books "encouraged witchcraft".

Then what about the fact that she got almost an entire generation of kids to start reading books? That she has done something that no one has ever done before? Oh no, don't give me all that Mark Twain, Enid Blyton crapola - No one has ever before reached out to boys AND girls in such a wide age span. What about the fact that she has created a whole world that millions of kids (and adults) dream about every day?

Not important? Oh well, I can understand. Clearly all her fans run around brandishing twigs shouting "Accio!" Clearly.

My opinions about this matter obviously has nothing to to with the fact that I have a Harry P bedding set and am borderline fanatical. Nothing at all...

Yes, there is a reason...

... why I look like this. The news that with a NatWest Student Bank Account comes a free five year 16-25 railcard has spread like wildfire amongst students on Medway campus. Since I travel to London at least once a week, a free railcard would suit me perfectly.

Ergo:

After the last seminar of the day I travelled on the bumpy 101 towards the high-street and NatWest. Everything worked perfectly with the nice bank boy until my passport was dropped on the table.

No sorry, You must've been in the country for at least three years or it costs you 6.95 £ a month. It's the government's policy.

Are you frikkin kidding me?! I have paid tax in this country for about a year now (actually unlike a lot of first year students at my uni) paying for this country and your government to work - GORDON BROWN GIVE ME MY RAILCARD!

LIBERTY QUAYS DOES NOT EXIST! At least not on the map...

Since trying to order books from amazon.co.uk and also trying to purchase my 16-25 railcard I have discovered that the postcode to Liberty Quays does not exist in their system. This means that when I, for example, try to get a railcard or get books for my coursework it will not come through as the system does not recognise ME7 1FL as a valid postcode. Indeed it works on googlemaps and from what I have heard people have been getting mail - BUT STILL.
Just to try to make our lives down at Liberty Q even more complicated (as I have already mentioned in previous posts the public transport connection is appalling!). Did it not spring to mind to anyone to perhaps sort this out before 600 students moved in? Is there a reason why the postcode is not getting recognised in these commercial systems?

The little journo inside me will not rest until I get to the bottom with this. I rarely do which is why they already know me by name down at reception...