Caitlin Moran’s diary of a week when the news simply would not behave
By Caitlin Moran for Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat.
Week Diary: Everything At Once
I woke up Monday with fourteen opinions already formed. I had not yet checked my phone. This is what it is to be me. I am, apparently, a natural resources site for takes. I produce them constantly, at no personal cost, to the ongoing confusion of people who would prefer I produced fewer.
Monday’s opinions: the tariffs are bad (correct), Keir Starmer’s communication strategy is the political equivalent of a beige sofa (defensible), and the news that Wetherspoons is expanding is the most precise cultural data point available for understanding where Britain currently is as a civilisation.
On Being a Woman in Public Discourse
I have been having opinions in public since before Twitter existed. I have been told to be quieter about those opinions for approximately as long. I have not been quieter. I have been louder, actually. This is not stubbornness. This is efficiency if you’re going to get the criticism either way, you might as well fill the space.
The week brought fresh absurdity in the form of Labour’s plans for women’s health services, which The Prat covered with appropriate bafflement, and a think-piece in a broadsheet suggesting that women are angry because they are anxious rather than because things are actually bad. I have filed this theory in the bin. The bin is getting quite full.
According to The Guardian’s women section, the gender pay gap has narrowed by a percentage that is technically progress but practically requires a very strong cup of tea to feel good about.
I drank the tea. I formed three more opinions. I wrote them all down. You are reading one of them.
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