Jezebel: Fay Weldon

'I'm The Only Feminist There Is – The Others Are All Out Of Step'

Sadie Stein — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:20:00 EDT

Fay Weldon is a grande dame of feminist literature - albeit a renegade one. She chose her choices - and does it make her less of an icon? More »

British Feminism Is Totally Effed, Says UK Observer

Jessica G. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

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The Guardian's Sunday magazine, the Observer, devoted almost every article this past weekend to the state of feminism in Britain, and the picture they paint is pretty bleak. The lead essay, by 39-year-old Rachel Cooke, claims that the gains made by earlier feminists are quickly losing ground. "Are we going backwards? Are we not waving but drowning? Yes, in a word," Cooke writes. More »

Telling A Child She's Beautiful Could Be Sending The Wrong Message

Jessica G. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

In today's Times of London, fashion editor Lisa Armstrong dissects what she deems our egregiously-lookist society. "Increasingly, looks are used to define women who never set out to compete by those rules," Armstrong points out. "The entire female flank of the French Cabinet has recently had their wardrobes pored over as if they were auditioning to fill in for Cate Blanchett on the red carpet while she takes a spot of maternity leave." Armstrong also quotes Fay Weldon, writer and insane-o, who, for once, makes a good point. "Nowadays, all little girls are told that they're beautiful by their mothers, even when they're not," Weldon says. "We're terribly conflicted. We don't want appearance to be important, but almost everything we do reinforces that they are." More »

Daily (Hate) Mail

Jessica G. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:30:00 EST

Wow, the Daily Mail is officially off its fucking nut. Novelist/Mail writer Fay Weldon is advising England to "sterilize teenage girls ... temporarily at least." Oh, temporarily! That makes it better! "Doesn't [sterilizing girls from age] 12 until 17 sound rather sensible?" Weldon asks. "This would have the advantage of bringing down the teenage pregnancy rate, so high in this country it makes us a disgrace among the nations - the worst offenders in Europe. The abortion rate would fall sharply. And silly young girls could get on with the education that is meant to produce serious, responsible taxpayers, not benefit recipients." Uhm, how about you just teach your children about safe sex? Also, what about those teenage boys doing the impregnatin', Fay? [Daily Mail] More »

British Novelist Says Spice Girls Made Generation Y Drunk, Slutty

Jessica — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:20:00 EST

As we've mentioned before, the Daily Mail's Femail section is always good for some shits n' giggles: British women hate sex, love shopping! they also have enormous tits! But today the British tabloid has got a real gem: Novelist Fay Weldon goes absolutely apeshit about the tyranny of the Spice Girls, whom Weldon holds responsible for "a generation of our young womanhood [taking] to binge drinking, Saturday night sluttishness and 'happy-slappings'." First of all, happy slapping is officially our new favorite term (Not that we condone it! Violence is bad!) Related: WHAT THE FUCK. More »