http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/30/rape-is-no-less-of-a-trauma-for-the-victim-just-because-you-call-it-something-else/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/30/rape-is-no-less-of-a-trauma-for-the-victim-just-because-you-call-it-something-else/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:00:33 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27945 According to the wise voice of Brendan O Neill, there’s a reasonable and rational view that ignorance is, or should be, a central factor in deciding how we not just punish, but how we actually define, serious crimes.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/30/rape-is-no-less-of-a-trauma-for-the-victim-just-because-you-call-it-something-else/feed/ 303 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/who-is-the-fairest-in-hollywood-celebrities-face-new-moral-pressure/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/who-is-the-fairest-in-hollywood-celebrities-face-new-moral-pressure/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:00:05 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27583 It seems the world of celebrity has experienced some strange moral epiphany all of a sudden. With the news that Kristen Stewart could lose her part in the new Snow White film because of her affair with Rupert Sanders comes a new implication about stardom: that having any kind of morality lapse could actually damage your career.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/who-is-the-fairest-in-hollywood-celebrities-face-new-moral-pressure/feed/ 19 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/jason-manfords-response-to-gary-barlows-trolls-showed-us-the-paradoxical-power-of-the-internet/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/jason-manfords-response-to-gary-barlows-trolls-showed-us-the-paradoxical-power-of-the-internet/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:54:29 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27427 an explosion in social media and technology turned chatting online from something associated with the lonely and the chronically passive aggressive into one of the most popular of methods of communication available.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/jason-manfords-response-to-gary-barlows-trolls-showed-us-the-paradoxical-power-of-the-internet/feed/ 15 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/when-politicians-fight-about-who-owns-feminism-the-whole-debate-gets-hijacked/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/when-politicians-fight-about-who-owns-feminism-the-whole-debate-gets-hijacked/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:00:03 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26892 Can Conservatives be feminists? According to Harriet Harman, that’s not only a valid question, but a valid question to which the answer is a very decisive no. Amber Rudd and Andrea Leadsome bristled understandably at Harman’s apparent claim to have ownership of feminism, but unfortunately they then proceeded to pen an article in the Guardian entitled “Conservatives [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/30/when-politicians-fight-about-who-owns-feminism-the-whole-debate-gets-hijacked/feed/ 61 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/when-it-comes-to-rape-jokes-free-speech-is-a-lazy-defence/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/when-it-comes-to-rape-jokes-free-speech-is-a-lazy-defence/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:00:04 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26381 I admit it: I’m a liberal stereotype. I have no sense of humour. Or at least, there’s obviously something wrong with it.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/when-it-comes-to-rape-jokes-free-speech-is-a-lazy-defence/feed/ 199 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/bikini-photo-sabotage-isnt-proof-that-women-are-bitchy/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/bikini-photo-sabotage-isnt-proof-that-women-are-bitchy/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:08:59 +0000 Louise McCudden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25899 There’s a saying that there are two kinds of women; those who make life easier for other women, and those who make life harder. Like any good saying, there are times when it feels true. But there’s an alienating premise to it. It assumes that it’s the responsibility of women to navigate - not challenge, but navigate - patriarchal pressures. It assumes that misogyny, with all its evils, is our fault.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/bikini-photo-sabotage-isnt-proof-that-women-are-bitchy/feed/ 381