As much as we love watching a meet-cute on screen, in real life flirting is a freaking minefield. Am I being too nice, am I being too rude? Am I being paranoid? Is he attentive or is he a stalker? Can I balance on the paper-thin line between "leading him on" and ending up on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper?

The math we do every single day in calculating the safety each laugh, each handshake - it's quiet but endless. Maybe it’s time we gave it a forum.

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The topic that started it all - period shits.

It was over a glass of much needed Friday wine that we realised how many basic things about being a woman go under-discussed - periods, hormones, iron deficiencies, stress. Things our bodies do all the time, that influence and control us daily, yet we need to dig through forums, blogs and inter-generational myths to discover.

Or by having a chat with your gals. So we made the chat public.

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Our opening discussion starts with some meta commentary of the meta commentary of the latest Sabrina Carpenter album and magazine covers. Less about the woman and more about womanhood. So many of the takes included some variation of the phrase "that's not what feminism is" that we couldn't help but join in on the discussion.

References:

Reddit / Twitter / IG comments (main source - @sainthoax account on IG)

The album cover for ‘Man’s Best Friend’ and 2025 Rolling Stone issue cover with Sabrina Carpenter.

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Making no claims for anyone else but “Who hurt you?” is a question often asked of me. Typically, the answer would simply be “I was born with it” (other than the rare occasions when it is, in fact, Maybelline).

But when it comes to feminism we all have our own origin stories.

These are ours.

References:

Our brains and lives.

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