Little Miss Rendell

Hello lovelies. In my life I have only ever experienced sexism first hand through jokes and 'banter', until recently. I have moved back to Southampton to begin my second year at university and with this means that I have moved out of halls and into a house of my own with 5 of my friends. This has also meant that I have moved into a separate part of the city and more locals live where I live now. The scenario I am about to tell you has happened to me three times now and I have been back in Southampton for two weeks. I was walking to the train station last week and I was walking down the main high street of the new area I am living in. I was just walking along minding my own business and I looked up and noticed three men walking towards me. I thought nothing of it and kept on walking. As I got closer to them they physically stopped walking, looked me up and down and started saying really derogatory things to me. This was such a shock to me, I couldn't believe they had actu...

Hello lovelies, this week I went to see the new Bridget Jones movie for my friends birthday. I didn't go into the cinema with high hopes, I knew the plot of the book and so I knew the plot for the movie was completely different. This bugged me immensely because the books follows such an interesting and funny story line that I couldn't understand why they changed it. But, with this considered, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. As always we will begin with the positives of this movie. Despite Renee Zellweger's appearance being completely different of that of the two previous films she slots right back into the role of Bridget. She is still the clumsy, embarrassing and relatable Bridget we all know and love. Her performance was everything that the audience is looking for. The leading men in this movie, Colin Firth (Mark Darcy) and Patrick Dempsey (Jack Qwant), do not disappoint either. Firth reprises the role of the handsome gentleman and is the lovable charact...