This week, the writer trapped between her old left wing paper, and her new fascist one is being forced to think about how bloody imperfect women are.
This week there’s been a proper hoo-ha at the left-wing paper. The hoo-ha, started by a columnist, was over “the media’s general approach to journalism”. My left-wing paper likes to write in tongues. By “media” they actually meant my right-wing paper and by “general approach” they meant female confessional journalism. They reckon that this style of journalism is degrading and misogynistic – which it is. But although in previous lives I’ve been 100 per cent with my colleague on the left-wing paper, I still felt pretty torn. I mean, the right-wing paper has always been so encouraging to me. I also feel I’ve earned a little me-time. So, this week I had a bash at degrading myself and my gender. Read more »
