Archive for the Columns Category
Etiquette with Warren Ellis
Comic writer and internet phenomenon Warren Ellis lays down the law on correct and proper behaviour. How much is it okay to socialise with your ex if they have a new girlfriend/boyfriend? Why are you socialising with your ex? The ex is obviously dramatically inferior in some way, or else they wouldn’t be your ex. [...]
Ask a feminist, with Zoe Margolis
Girl with a one-track mind author Zoe Margolis sorts out our conundrums of modern, independent womanhood. I was given a book called ‘Porn for women’. It’s full of pictures of men, with speech bubbles in which they comment on the importance of housework or empathise with the reader’s supposed heartfelt desire for consumer items such [...]
Ask a feminist
Struggling to deal with the demands of modern womanhood? Exhausted from supervising the gender expression of family, friends, pets? Filament’s resident firebrand feminist Penny Red is here to help. I’m a woman of a certain age, and my friends keep tactfully suggesting that I look into Botox. How do I tell them to bog off [...]
Etiquette with Jene
Ms Jene Cowley explains how to play nice and share your toys with etiquette for the modern Filament-reading woman. A guy I met socially texted me about going for a drink. I’m happy to have him as a friend, but I’m not romantically interested. Should I tell him it’s just platonic in a text, or [...]


