The one where they are actually Friends.
After the massive impact of #MeToo we here at Tights packed away our Olivettis, poured our Tippex down the sink, put our feet up and cracked open the posh biscuits, safe in the knowledge that sexism was dead in the water. Men all over Twitter were coming out in...
A Beginners’ Guide to Not Sexually Harassing
Sorry we've not been around very much, we figured it'd be fine to relax, after all there's not been all that much sexism lately (hahahahhahaaaaaaaa .... weep). But fear not! The fabulous Violet Bushtrimmer is here with this very handy guide for any men who may be...
Doctor Who Vs. Jackie (or The Road to Womanhood)
* This wise and personal missive to her younger self is another triumph penned by the wonderful and sensibly shod Violet Bushtrimmer. As I approach my dotage there are many things I miss about being young: not being obsessed where the nearest toilet is, being able to...
Pop Smear #1 The Gym
OK. I have a confession to make. I have joined a gym. Partly to get my (probably correct) mother off of my back and partly because as a violently sedentary freelance illustrator, if I had a Fitbit it would pack it’s tiny bags and leave me for someone with an actual...
Mind the Gap and other tales of sexist fun
• It's Friday and Violet Bushtrimmer, our roving correspondent out in the social media field, reports back on some recent findings. Mind the gap.... and the idiots. This was the week that the BBC decided to reveal the salaries of their top paid stars. Or was FORCED to...
Doctor Who and the man-babies
We welcome esteemed new contributor Ms V. Bushtrimmer to the site with what we're sure you'll agree is a frankly sensational debut. Equal parts steamed loathing, vivid sexual imagery and weeping man-babies who will be watching Ant and Dec firing marshmallows at an owl...
You couldn’t make it up
There is a point where you just can't face reading The Express, The Mail, The Sun, The Star, a large proportion of The Mirror or The Telegraph and hope never to clap eyes on any of them ever again. We have reached it. Iris thought she could cope and valiantly tried to...
Darn Kitsch! – Guest Post
We're very excited that the fabulous Cath Janes has written this guest post for us. Many a beverage was choked on reading her hilarious rage-filled Kraken Wakes blogs. She doesn't write so much these days, but is no less creative. You won't find her at a laptop, but...
The Week in Sexist News 30/06/2017
Hope you've got a nice cuppa, never face press sexism without caffeine... 10) Designer poverty The Telegraph, 28/06/17 I'm sure anyone who is struggling financially, like public sector workers, perhaps, can empathise with Sam Cam's howl of pain. The real victim here...
The week in sexist news 23/06/2017
Well, it *is* Friday. With all the other frankly abysmal shit going down, it's somewhat comforting to know that our national press (online and off) still prioritises women and make plenty of time to body and slut shame, obsess over the legs of dead royals and be...
Brexit Style
As Brexit brow sweeps the nation, we take a look at this year's hottest 'Article 50' style essentials, guaranteed to make your wardrobe great again. [Click here to view as a pdf] 1. Henge dress Made of dolerite poly-cotton mix, this neolithic number harks back to a...
30 Things We’ve Learned From Today’s Daily Mail
1) It's always best to distract readers from bad news about any royals or prospective royals... ...with tits. 2) Women should do age-appropriate shagging As men are allowed to have normal all-purpose sex regardless of age, one presumes these 'steamy' scenes required...
Tights and Fabrica screening – The Punk Singer
Calling Brighton Tightsers (and anyone happy to travel to the funnest bit of British seaside going), we've teamed up with Fabrica gallery to screen The Punk Singer. Iris will be at the event and leading a creative response to the film so those who want to, can get...
The Week in Sexist News 11/12/15 (sort of)
Merry December dearest pals, The Week in Sexist News is back! Well, sort of. While we've been working on our EXCITING NEW PROJECT (which we will unveil with a flourish in the New Year), so we've been taking a break from sexist newsing...but...we haven't really. You...
Not The Week in Sexist News 13/11/2015
Morning you glories. We have a confession to make... There is no Sexist News today. We do have a good reason, we promise. We are working on a project that we hope will delight and amuse. Though we would love to be able to do TWISN in tandem, trawling through the...
The Week in Sexist News 06/11/15
Good Morning readers! We hope you had a wonderful night of burning cloth men on massive pyres. We tend to do that every two to three weeks, but last night was exceptional - in fact, our fire is still going. We burned enough copies of The Sun to keep the embers alight...
The Week in Sexist News 30/10/15
Good Morning, dear friends. I was just about to pen some scathing introductory words about the shittery of our newshounds, when I spilt a pint of coffee down one leg (the left one), so I'd better go and wash it (the right one is fine). Iris could've taken over, but...
The Week in Sexist News 23/10/15
MORNING gals and guys! Have you had a nice week? The papers have contained an absolute toss-fest of shit-flinging and feminist bashing. Which, of course we LOVE. Without further ado here is a veritable banquet of Fleet Street faeces: 10) Not so Fonda* of...
The Week in Sexist News (Anniversary Issue – sort of) 16/10/15
MORNING. Well, we missed an important Tights-iversary. Last week we had been doing TWISN for a WHOLE YEAR. A whole blinkin' year. Forty-five posts about the dickishness of our 'free' press. There have been more celeb-lady-part flauntings in the last year than we've...
A Load of Arse
I’m sick of seeing arses. Sexy ones, ‘real’ ones, arty ones, surgically enhanced ones, even the arses of provincial rugby teams, innovatively raising money for charity. They’re everywhere on social media, in newspapers and magazines, on the telly. Yep, arses are the...
The Week in Sexist News 09/10/2015
Oh Good God, it's Friday again. Which, on the one hand, is good and, on the other, is a reminder of how little one can achieve in 5 days. Unless one includes biscuits consumed, in which case, both of us are WINNERS at life. Anyway, our weekly productivity aside, we've...
The Week in Sexist News 02/10/15
Morning sports fans. So, it's Friday and if you've been anywhere near a tabloid this week you'll likely be feeling all demeaned and grubby, maybe with a startlingly reduced IQ. We've spent the last two days looking at this river of brain corroding smeg and both feel...
The Week in Sexist News 25/09/15
Hello!! Darlings, we have missed you. You know what else we've missed? That's correct, we've missed ferreting around in the trough of news slurry that is the tabloid press. And we did not ferret in vain, for we have liberated some choice lumps of crud. We invite you...
The Week in Sexist News 04/09/15
Good morning, you rabble of delightful malcontents. As usual, we have plumbed the depths of our fair land's journalist u-bend, and bring you the news equivalent of clumps of hair, soap scum, bits of skin and that weird gloopy grey stuff that is difficult to...
The Week in Sexist News 28/08/15
Morning all. Last week we were spoiled for choice, and this week has not disappointed either. Well, obviously the patronising, sexualising, belittling, mocking and general abusing of just over half the population is massively disappointing. But, in terms of...
Ranty Pants: Spectator Sexism
Greetings dear readers! Have you recently seen something infuriating? Have you read an article that has reduced your faculties to semolina? Has a product or service that promised eternal salvation been a puddle of utter turd? Has an incident filled you with buckets...
The Week in Sexist News 21/08/15
Salutations Tights fans. We are back and obviously thrilled that there's been so much to write about. On Twitter this week, a lovely chap told us that we are just looking for sexism. Yes. We are. And we hunt far and wide, we search high and low just to find mere...
The Week in Sexist News 07/08/2015
- By Iris Clot and Janice Lathe. Flora Cramp is away. On reflection and based on some comments (which we've responded to) I've updated entries #10 and #4. TWISN went a touch rogue this week... I do so love poking things with the Class Stick but Flora usually reigns me...
The Week in Sexist News 31/07/2015
Morning all. Yay, it's Friday! Want to have a peep into the back of the metaphorical news fridge and smell the fetid, gone-off offerings from the UK's finest toss peddlers? Thought so. You. Are. Welcome... 10) FASHION! In Telegraph land, there is an objective...
The Week in Sexist News 24/07/15
Do you have that Friday feeling yet? That foresight which, though accurate, you will ignore. The I'm going to be hungover tomorrow and my plans to mow the lawn/do my tax return/make something spectacular from that hardback celeb cookery book will be completely shagged...