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Rebecca Shaw

The Age

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Growing up surrounded by boys, I’m fascinated – and a bit scared – by the dynamic between sisters

Growing up surrounded by boys, I’m fascinated – and a bit scared – by the dynamic between sisters
17.04.2025 7

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Rebecca Shaw

Looking at my late-90s high school diary, you would assume I was a regular horny straight teen girl. The reality was very different

03.04.2025 10

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Rebecca Shaw

Country music is cool now – even the pop girlies are leaning into it. I’ve finally been vindicated

20.03.2025 9

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The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere

17.03.2025 20

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Nepo babies should do what they want. Except complain to the rest of us

06.03.2025 4

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Problematic Age Gap discourse is back – but we need more nuanced understandings of power dynamics

20.02.2025 10

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I have entered ‘nanna mode’ – bring me all your movies and shows about older women

30.01.2025 3

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Life may stink, but so does Putricia – and I love her for it

24.01.2025 20

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

16.01.2025 1000

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I have been forced to speak up. Society needs to act to rein in ridiculous movie runtimes

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps even something heavier than a rock, like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson), you would know by now...

05.12.2024 40

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Why are we laughing at male ignorance about menstruation? Where are the LOLs?

I often get annoyed while looking at the internet. It’s part of the deal. Usually it’s easy to scroll past irritating content and not lose time...

21.11.2024 20

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As a hero of TV underdogs, I’m here to tell you to watch Somebody Somewhere

We live in a time when there is so much TV available to stream that you could spend the rest of your life scrolling past viable options and never...

07.11.2024 4

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When can you change the lyrics on song covers? Ask Kelly Clarkson

I can’t hold a tune to save my life, so I don’t know for sure, but I imagine there are a few things that strike fear into the heart of singers....

24.10.2024 5

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Rebecca Shaw

Too many ‘candid’ social media videos are obviously, agonisingly fake. So why are viewers laughing?

With advances in technology including AI and ChatGPT, and increasingly realistic fake images everywhere, media literacy is diving towards an...

20.09.2024 10

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Pumping up the volume: how podcasts were my unlikely saviour during the horror of influenza A

After a horrible two-week battle with the influenza A (A stands for “annoying”) virus, I am in the home stretch to victory, and as such have...

08.08.2024 2

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Rebecca Shaw