This is The Grand in Clapham. I'd never been to Clapham before, it's totally the wrong end of the city for me but tonight there was an intriguing prospect to be had: Bookslam. It's build as a literary night club, which is probably about right. They occur every month or so at various venues around the city and this one happened to have a very feminine bent to it. The crowd was about 95% female and I suspect many of the males present also had a bit of a bent to them, if you'll forgive the 1970s terminology. The line up included Caitlin Moran, Hadley Freeman, Sarah Pascoe and Salena Godden so the sisters were out in force, and a fine job of it they made too. Each in their own way they were funny, intelligent, witty and keen to point out the car wreck that is the way women are portrayed in the media these days.
It's unbelievable that we still seem to need to point out that women are just as capable as men, and why so many women see the need to 'escape' by obsessing over close up photos of other women's bodies I am unlikely to ever understand; but so long as it still needs saying, let's say it. And if you can do that whilst simultaneously being highly entertaining, all the better.
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