“Take Steinem’s concern that if ‘sex work’ becomes the accepted terminology, states might require people to do it in order to access welfare services. Of course, this is a monstrous idea – but it assumes a laid-back attitude to states… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It has been noted that many of the soi-disant ‘disruptive’ products being marketed as game changers by Silicon Valley startup kids are things that… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It is not elitist to look fascism in the face and reject it. It is not anti-democratic to carry on believing in a society… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that Trump wants to sit in a shiny chair in the Oval Office and have people tell him all day that he’s… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything in the meat and matter of our living… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
