Villainesse

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Six years later, Villainesse is going on hiatus. Editor @LizzieMarvelly signs off with a huge thank you to readers, contributors and everyone who supported Villainesse along the way. https://t.co/2z1tse1acj

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3. Default to they/them pronouns. Start doing it in your head! It really does help.

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4. Apologise and move on when you mess up.

You’ll get it wrong eventually. You’ll use the wrong pronoun or you’ll lean into a stereotype. Most people can tell when it's a genuine stuff-up.

It’s important, though, to apologise anyway.

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6. Stop documenting everything on the 'gram.

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The fact that The Bachelor is one of the few mainstream shows out there where we get to see a large group of women interact? Now, that's just sad #TheBachelorNZ

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It DOES pass the Bechdel Test (although perhaps one could read that as pointing out the limitations of the test) #TheBachelorNZ

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Kind of. Maybe not.

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Love the royals or hate them, it's hard to disagree that there's some... emotional... issues there.

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"We can talk about privilege and class – those are all very important discussions to have. But I will always be glad when people in mental distress remove themselves from a destructive situation."

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No one has the God-given right to be involved in anyone’s life – not even a relative. Not even a father.

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“The British Press at the moment is completely and utterly cruel, and so invasive.” Sarah Ferguson as spoken to Oprah Winfrey - 1995.

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"Until artists are able to achieve financial independence, we’re going to see continued abuses of power [...] Until that conversation is happening at scale, I perceive cosmetic change as a disservice to the overall discourse." - Chelsea Jade https://t.co/4DjoMhogdo

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We caught up with @chelseajade, @LizstokedStokes and more ahead of the new all-female music festival coming to Wellington. https://t.co/4DjoMh6FlQ

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#4 Teen girls in the 2000s.

We were bombarded with images of average-size women and told they were obese. We were taught that the worst thing a woman could be was fat. We were taught to hate ourselves.

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In 2007, Lohan was barely 21. When I was 21 I was tripping over strangers at house parties and passing out in the backseat of my best friend’s car.

Lohan was simply doing the L.A. version - while also carrying the young adult film industry on her back.

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#3 Chris Crocker aka the genius behind Leave Britney Alone.

In a time when the public was a lot less sympathetic to queer voices Crocker put their body on the line in defense of an icon. And they were all but crucified for it.

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We should never shun anti-vaxxers. Don’t drown them in science. Do not patronise them. They are part of us. The last thing we want is to cement anyone’s harmful convictions, which is often what happens as a defence mechanism.

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Cold facts don’t change hot-blooded emotion. I don’t think any amount of statistic-spouting would ever convince a parent not to be anxious, or a victim of racism that the people in power are looking out for them.

But something has to be done.

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Those who oppose Covid vaccines are not simply risking their health when they opt out, they could put their immuno-compromised contacts — who are unable to vaccinate — at risk. Those are the elderly, the sick, the very young. They are someone’s loved ones.
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Though talks of Covid vaccination campaigns are popular in the media now, a countercurrent of anti-vaxxer sentiment still persists.

And that makes me worry.

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