Category Archives: Female thinking

Not NaNoWriMo #8

Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2010 by Hazel

I read an excellent post about gender and music magazines over at the quite frankly superb collective blog, the Anti-Room and a few music related thoughts came to mind. If the readership of music magazines is mainly men why is … Continue reading →

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Not NaNoWriMo #6

Posted on Thursday 11 November 2010 by Hazel

The Handmaid's Tale is 25 years old. Margaret Atwood talked about her book on Woman's Hour on Wednesday 10th November along with journalist Alex Clark. The book always seemed to me to be a warning for the near future and … Continue reading →

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Not NaNoWriMo #5

Posted on Tuesday 9 November 2010 by Hazel

This article about Amanda Redman over at the Hathor Legacy made me realise just how good we have it on British TV in some ways; how we do have a fine variety of individual and, dare I say, normal looking … Continue reading →

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Not NaNoWriMo #4

Posted on Monday 8 November 2010 by Hazel

Is it feminist to…change your name when you get married? No, it isn’t but then I don’t think it is feminist to get married at all. I was horrified when I rather belatedly realised that our marriage certificate asks about … Continue reading →

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Random quote #6

Posted on Thursday 15 July 2010 by Hazel

I've had some professional studio meetings, and the ones where I really got glammed up, I've had questions like, "You didn't really write that script, did you?" I've actually had a couple of producers or executive people ask me that … Continue reading →

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"mums aren’t good at being funny"

Posted on Friday 11 September 2009 by Hazel

Don’t ask why but I recently watched an edition of The One Show (broadcast on 22nd July 2009) with Hugh Dennis as the studio guest. The presenters asked him about the lack of women on such shows as Mock the … Continue reading →

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Women

Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 by Hazel

I am quite taken with Vanessa Engle's work. Her series Jews was fascinating and insightful and understated. She lets her subjects do the talking while she asks seemingly innocuous questions off-screen. Her earlier series Lefties featured a programme devoted to … Continue reading →

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Call me kooky-pants

Posted on Saturday 25 July 2009 by Hazel

Angel - "Apocalpyse, Nowish" (Steven S. DeKnight) WARNING: THIS CONTAINS RAMBLING I have been struggling to find a reason just why Angel just doesn’t engage me in the way that Buffy does. I have some idea: in "Apocalypse, Nowish",  Angel, … Continue reading →

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People I admire (and who happen to be left-handed) #4

Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2009 by Hazel

Emma Thompson Emma Thompson has been part of my life for over twenty years. In fact, the Thompson family has been part of my life since the day I watched The Magic Roundabout on TV. Not only is she an … Continue reading →

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Bechdel (again)

Posted on Friday 5 June 2009 by Hazel

I just came across this website devoted to the Bechdel Test (via My Buffyholism is Showing). Why haven't I seen the Oscar winning film There Will Be Blood? Because a film styled as a "story about family, greed, religion, and … Continue reading →

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