Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith is a feminist writer, with a particular interest in motherhood and intersections of misogyny and ageism. She is the author of Hags, on the demonisation of middle-aged women, and her new book Unkind, on how “be kind” entrenches sexism, is published in February. She tweets at @glosswitch

Women’s rights are still being unjustly dismissed as marginal or petty

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The cruelty revealed by a recent BBC documentary felt very familiar

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Sexism-as-entertainment enables more serious acts of exploitation

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For all the talk of body positivity, the pressure on women to be ultra-thin has not waned

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False feminism gave every misogynist an alibi that he will not stop using

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How trans activism centres men at the expense of women

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It is preposterous to frame the desire for single-sex spaces as hysterical or weird

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Sexual abuse can upend all of our convenient narratives

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Let’s be honest about why it was so easy for women turn on Blake Lively

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Of course big business never cared about gender distressed children

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