Fairy dust with a side of sexism
When a former Disney CEO is lightly piddling over the hopes and dreams of girls and women everywhere, you know there’s a problem. In yet another high-profile case of ‘open mouth, insert foot’, Michael Eisner has claimed that beautiful and funny women are… “impossible to find”. If that wasn’t awkward enough, he made this statement […]
Law & Order: Pure & Weary
I am a sucker for a good parody video. Honest movie trailers, Disney send-ups, music videos without the sound, Epic Rap Battles Of History… you name it, I’m there. One such YouTube video dropped into the Funny Women inbox this week. It’s a Law & Order parody by Chicago-based female comedy duo Pure and Weary. […]
Time Of The Month – new London venue
We love The Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon. It’s where we’ve put on quite a few of our Funny Women Awards heats, and it was – until recently – the venue for our Time Of The Month nights. We can only apologise to the people downstairs for all the stomping and raucous laughter. It’s not […]
#LiveTweetYourPeriod
I tweet about a lot of things. Food, work, the weather, cute Japanese things… If I’m completely honest with you, though, I’ve never once in my life felt an urge to livetweet my period. I did once tweet through an old episode of Top Gear, but not my period. It’d probably go something like this: […]
Why ‘Gadgette’ doesn’t make me gag
There’s a new tech site for women on the block. You might’ve heard about it already: it’s called Gadgette. Now, Gadgette has been causing a little bit of controversy since it launched. That’s probably putting it lightly. If we’re going to slate a website that specifically targets women, because it targets women, we have a […]
All Hail Taylor ‘The Power’ Swift
I don’t listen to a lot of popular music. Unless it’s popular in South Korea. So I only really know about popstars if they’re doing something other than singing in a room full of lasers and colourful smoke. Taylor Swift, the darling of YouTube and every Tumblr user’s lifetime BFF, has just done something pretty […]
