Bridget Christie: Let’s hear it for the girl
Bridget Christie tells us how her career was kick started by a Damascene moment in a bookshop on April 30, 2012. An unhelpful (male) bookshop assistant, who had never heard of Virginia Woolf or Mary Wollstonecraft, passed wind in the women’s studies section because he assumed that it is the safest place in the shop to do so — that nobody ever visited that particular area.
Something went ping! inside Bridget Christie’s head: “This is where feminism is today ... something to be farted at. No one goes to the women’s studies section anymore, not now. There’s no need for it! That’s all done now, isn’t it? Women can vote and vajazzle and vomit at weekends now, can’t they?”
