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Peaches Geldof was the perfect alternative role model

Peaches Geldof was the perfect alternative role model

Telegraph — However, when Peaches got married for the first time, I really warmed to her. It was around the time I got my first journalism job. In my office, our celebrity obsession was all consuming, and it didn't end when we stopped writing. Every day, on Gawker, on Jezebel, on Defamer, on the Mail Sidebar, I'd track her from Shoreditch to Williamsburg, obsessed with the internet's obsession and charmed by the recklessness of her big, romantic gesture. You had to love a girl who would get married just because she could. It seemed dizzy, impetuous and entirely thrilling.
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We live in anxious times, so let's talk about it

We live in anxious times, so let's talk about it

Guardian — Just before Christmas, I had to send an uncomfortable email. My friend was having a party, an event I had been looking forward to for some months, but after having a panic attack on the day, I decided I couldn't go. All December long, my constant, low level hum of anxiety had been getting louder and angrier, like a trapped bluebottle banging its body harder and harder against a closed window. I am predisposed to anxious thoughts like some people are predisposed to freckling in the sunshine or having their stomachs upset by prawns.
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Lessons I Learnt From Re-Watching My Teenage Sex Tape

Lessons I Learnt From Re-Watching My Teenage Sex Tape

www.thedebrief.co.uk — Daisy Buchanan | Contributing Writer | Thursday, 27 March 2014 The Debrief: Most depressingly, that my first reaction was 'I wasn't that fat!' Here is some stuff I like watching on my computer: episodes of Parks & Recreation. Parks & Rec extended super cuts of Ron Swanson talking about his love of meat in a deep voice. That video of the bear cubs joining hands and forming a Love Train. The gay He-Man/Four Non Blondes mash up. The theme of Hammerman. Here is some stuff I would rather not watch on my computer: Me, having sex, when I was 19.
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Dear Lily Allen: Other Women Are Not The Enemy

Dear Lily Allen: Other Women Are Not The Enemy

www.lifetimetv.co.uk — I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy. This is a quote from Lily Allen, speaking as the guest editor of the current issue of Shortlist, which is all about How To Be A Man, and it chills me. Lily has been hired to tell men how to be men. And she's making a salient point about women and bitchiness, and (I hope) saying that women know men aren't all natural misogynists, and feminism should lead to us all being cheerful buddies and pals - although there's another troubling bit where she claims we live in a post-feminist world.
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How I learnt to love short men

How I learnt to love short men

Telegraph — Daisy with boyfriend Dale I'd amassed a collection of subconscious prejudices connected with height. Was he going to have a Napoleon Complex? Would he be less confident, less at ease with himself and less successful than a man who stood up at six foot? Looking back, I think my problems were mainly to do with my own insecurities. I'm no giant, at 5"7, but I've been that height since I was 12, and when the other girls around me seemed delicate and petite, I always felt a bit ungainly.
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Female masturbation: yes, yes, yes, there's an app for that

Female masturbation: yes, yes, yes, there's an app for that

Guardian — Masturbation was my biggest teenage secret. Alongside the other clueless virgins at my all-girls school, I was happy to guess and gossip about the most obscure aspects of sex - as a gang of young women reaching adolescence when the Clinton scandal was in full swing, we had a lot of questions - but we would never, ever, ever admit to touching ourselves. Our interest in sex could be all-consuming, as long as it was dispassionate. We would not allow ourselves to experience desire. A friend confided that she masturbated once, over her clothes, just to see how it felt - but swore me to absolute secrecy (sorry, Helen.)
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From Qi Gong to blogging: How the Millennial generation are beating their blues

From Qi Gong to blogging: How the Millennial generation are beating their blues

Independent — Like about three million people in the UK, including growing numbers of people in their teens and twenties, I have anxiety. This January, Anxiety UK experienced a record number of visits from young people, with the number of users aged 16 to 25 growing by more than 40 per cent on 2013. "Young people have it tougher [now]," Emma Rubach of YouthNet commented at the time. "You have your phone in your pocket, you're on social media all the time and it's really hard to step away from all that sometimes."
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