Welcome to the first Femmes Fatales on the new site: you know the drill – 10 great posts from 10 new (to me) women bloggers.<\/p>\n
To begin, an immensely powerful post from Witchy-woo on Well, I’ll Go To The Foot of the Stairs, about the fate of her cousin, Catherine<\/a>. She was savagely attacked, but the even worse villain of the piece is the teachings of the Catholic Church…<\/p>\n Then Lelyons on Femivist offers a powerful and deeply personal explanation of Hetero-privilege<\/a>. “Without a doubt, I could exercise privilege if I decided to go with the flow. I would have to stay in good shape and learn to cook, but some might say that is a small sacrifice to make to have a bottomless credit card with which to shop with.”<\/p>\n After that a bit of light relief: Boinkette specialises in the short and sweet, and often pictorial. She’s glad to note that Bill Clinton is well hung<\/a>. (But what I want to know, in the post above that, is why George Bush is wielding what looks – in fact I’m sure it is – a cricket<\/em> bat?)<\/p>\n It is early days, but in the “one to watch file” is Laura on Sheffield Fems who is introducing her group, formed by a group of women eager to capitalise on the success of the national feminist conference, Fem05, which was held in Sheffield in the same month.<\/a> Mo Pie on Big Fat Deal has meanwhile been expressing a wish – not a really huge wish really – for an overweight woman to be shown on television as sexy and desirable<\/a>.<\/p>\n Turning to the less overtly “political”, Kaka Mak has some pleasant, and some considerably less pleasant, road encounters<\/a>, accompanied by a fiery steed. Then ‘Nika has, I gather in reading between the lines, two small children and another on the way. A post about her day<\/a> might be usefully employed as a contraceptive, for anyone getting a bit clucky. And the effects of the arrival of a baby on a relationship is explored by Shannon on It’s Shanntastic. “Having a baby has been THE most challenging thing our marriage has ever had to withstand<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally, one for the word mavens among us: JCarwen on TruthSpiral would like to apply restraint to some copywriter’s keyboard<\/a>. I could think of a few other nominations – particularly the bank I walk past nearly every day that has abandoned hyphens. “Old fashioned” looks very odd without a hyphen. Welcome to the first Femmes Fatales on the new site: you know the drill – 10 great posts from 10 new (to me) women bloggers. To begin, an immensely powerful post from Witchy-woo on Well, I’ll Go To The Foot of the Stairs, about the fate of her cousin, Catherine. She was savagely attacked, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-femmes-fatales","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn Healthy Policy, Kate provides a vivid account of her progress from two crutches, to one crutch, to freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nIf you missed last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edition, it is here<\/a>. (If you’d like to see all of them as a list , click on the category “Friday Femmes Fatales” in the righthand sidebar. That will take you to a collection of 540 (and counting) women bloggers.)
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\nPlease: In the next week if you read, or write, a post by a woman blogger and think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that deserves a wider audience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (particularly someone who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet get many hits), drop a comment. It really does make my life easier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"