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Review of a book on female "rebels" and the moral panic they cause for not conforming to what society expects of "ladies"

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/bad-girls-a-history-of-unladylike-behaviour-8533215.html

You tell first !!!

Interesting article

Interesting article, shame the two links to articles underneath it are pictures of women for either an article on "Tart-lit" or cookery.

I once left the house without hat & gloves...........of course I had to move, change my name,and not darken my fathers doorstep ever again.....

I outraged my dad back in the day by drinking pints.

He was further perturbed when he saw me swigging Newcy Brown out of the bottle neck while wearing DMs.

These days he is slightly miffed by my tattoos, but he's getting used to me.

I told my DP that if we ever got married I would no way in hell take his surname...(partly because I cba to change my details but mostly on principle...if you do it, fine. But that isn't my cuppa).

I was surprised he'd assumed I would actually, cheeky

Oh and I cut my hair short, aged 14. I lived in a backwater town in norfolk at the time so everyone thought I was clearly a raging lesbian

I talk openly about my vagina and mooncup on Facebook. I suspect I am a brazen hussy, offending those with delicate sensibilities with my uncouth vocabulary.

to be fair mooncup's are amazing usererror , so why not

I think I've been deleted on FB for the Mooncup link to Love your Vagina song

Not me, but my Mum used to go on a weekend away with female friends mostly as my Dad wasn't interested in cultural stuff. My Grandad wouldn't speak to her for 6 months as she went away to Paris without my Dad

Oh yes, drinking pints. I am regularly get faces for that. My arguement is it saves me having to go to the bar every 5 minutes <<hic>>

I go to football matches without DH and meet a bunch of blokes beforehand in the pub for a pint. Admittedly not so often since the DCs came along.

I'm a biker, have an HGV licence and am only 5ft 1. It gives me great kudos with kids in school (esp boys) and it gives us something to talk about other than work.

I am a geek, love understanding technology. Love surprising male friends by out-geeking them or being able to hold a decent conversation about technology.

I'm the kinda female rebel that my mum says would've been burned at the stake, branded with an A and disowned by all if I'd been born earlier this century.

And now I'm raising my dd to be an even better rebel who made me so proud when at parents evening the general teacher consensus was my dd has v strong opinions and she's not afraid to share them.

I had a lot of sex when I was younger and double barrelled my name as a compromise to giving mine up when I got married.

I've had a one night stand because I wanted to and I have carried out 99% of the DIY work in my flat including plastering and tiling

Sleep with people if I fancy it (when I'm single), walk in an unladylike fashion, drink pints, used to wear baggy blokes clothes a lot, I read comics, am an internet nerd, fart loudly (not in public)

@ walk in an unladylike fashion MadamFolly, please expand...

madamefolly - that made me think of the Monty Python 'ministry of silly walks' sketch. I might adopt one myself for relief of slight boredom

the PILs are confused that I have no desire to be a SAHM or reduce my hours

"borninastormSat 16-Mar-13 12:29:59

I'm the kinda female rebel that my mum says would've been burned at the stake, branded with an A and disowned by all if I'd been born earlier this century."

I don't think that even back on 2002 we burned witches at the stake. In fact I was there and I'm sure

(TBH I'm fairly sure they didn't do it at any point in the 20C either)

my mum can't seem to understand that I never changed my name when I got married, she still tries to call me by DH's name , we have been married almost 23 years. i get the face when she sees my tattoo and when i order a pint.

Yy to all the Newkie drinking, unladylike clothes and walking with my hands in my pocket. And to the keeping my own name on marriage etc.
But the biggest outrage was walking at a funeral. Yes, I refused to go in the car with the ladies and walked behind the coffin with the men at my Granny's funeral. My aunt was worried the Western Mail would report it

Wearing a running vest without shaving my armpits caused consternation once. Answer to "Christ you look like fucking Action Man" had to be "Better than looking like fucking Barbie"