TO ROREO FROM JENIET

FEM IS IN

I just wanted to share three things I’ve seen recently that have made me feel pretty damn good about being a female and realise that feminism is IN.

Now, I’m sure that’s unpalatable for all the hard core of you out there, to hear me reduce feminism to a fad. And I realise this is something that should not simply ‘trend'. But so long as it's getting people’s attention, does the how, what, why and when matter?

So here are my shares.

This because it’s simply superb. It’s real. Finally. So true. I can totally identify - the girl twanging her bikini before she dives in, hell yeah, that's me.

From 5.42 onwards because I couldn’t agree more with the Katherine’s statement that “twerking is a victim’s dance” and that the definition of a powerful woman is Beyoncé – she reinvented sexy face, you know?

And the fact that moneysupermarket.com decided to make an ad where it's a man that does all the jiggling. Well, most of it.  (Well done him, he wears those butt pants so well – and to whichever lady that did all the close-ups.) Admittedly we're still ogling a body and in a way typically reserved for the female form, but they have disrupted it and it makes me laugh every time. The only downside, Sharon O-ooooohhhhh, so sad.

WORTH EVERY WOOL-FILLED SECOND

How many situations in life make you think that the above and beyond effort will be worth it, or that make you look forward to the sun going down because that's the time you can start another day's (or should that be night's) work? 

How many things do you take on in life that mean you'll happily stay up late with nothing more than a few bits of wool, a pile of polystyrene and just an idea of something that might, might, just work? 

How often do you have something to do that means you actually work (not just get your laptop out) on the commute? Probably not many. But making videos for friends is one. 

Following the success of mussel shells with googly eyes inviting Liz and Rich's friends and family to come to Cornwall to see them tie the knot, I was given the great privilege and pleasure of doing the same (but without the seashells) for some other friends. 

So here it is. The save the date video that Rio and I made for her and Chris' wedding. And it was a lot of fun to make.