OK, I give up – I’m afraid Friday Femmes Fatales is going to have to become an “occasional” series rather than a weekly one. (I’m going to aim for but not promise fortnightly.) I just can’t spend any more hours at the computer than I do now. (But — small bribe — if you send in lots of nominations it could be more regular!)<\/p>\n
Now that my little whinge is over, on to the ten great female bloggers with ten killer posts…<\/p>\n
Regular readers will know I aim to promote women bloggers even when I don’t necessarily agree with them, so I’ll start with Jo22 on I Can’t Fly, and her take on Jack Straw and the Muslim veil issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n But I entirely agree with the sentiments of the blogger on Politics’n’Poetry, who highlights the environmental misdeeds of the Saskatchewan Power Corporation<\/a> (Canada).<\/p>\n Staying green, Anna on Bitchinspin, who’s obviously a far more serious cyclist than I, reports on a university free bike scheme<\/a>. Amazingly it seems, they aren’t being stolen!<\/p>\n I’m equally in tune with Kuri on Thought Interrupted, who picked up and reshaped the currently popular meme to make it five things feminism still has to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ronni Bennett (no relation, that I know of) on Time Goes By, subtitled “what it’s really like to get older”, wonders how plastic surgery comes into the ‘women’s health category’<\/a>, concluding “they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll force us to become grotesque simulacra of youth to not offend their delicate sensibilities of what is attractive”.<\/p>\n On the superb group blog Our Bodies Ourselves, Christine C. contemplates that old question: can men be feminists?<\/a>. One powerful obituary certainly supports that possibility.<\/p>\n On another question that keeps being asked – what is university (college) for<\/a>? the Blue Gal provides some great stats, and interesting thoughts on the changing American experience.<\/p>\n Turning more personal, although still eminently political, Liz Connor reflects on being a teenage bulimic<\/a>. She reflects how this is merely the other side of overeating: ” After that, some healthy, sensible eating – Jennifershmoo on Vegan Lunch Box offers (with pictures) vegan bento<\/a>. (I have to admit that after eating almost entirely vegan at the recent Green Party conference I felt remarkably healthy considering the other ways I was abusing my body – e.g. alcohol and lack of sleep. But still not sure I could stick it full time.)<\/p>\n Finally, to finish, the one post you really, really must read here – leave on an inspirational note: The Sappho Manifesto tells the story of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Jennings<\/a>, a 24-year-old schoolteacher, and apparently unlikely revolutionary.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n
\nWith any addiction self-loathing and self-comfort become bound within a mutually sustaining, closed system.”<\/p>\n