Brutish, bitchy sexism highlights need for sisterhood

It’s a free-for-all when it comes to denigrating women online. And women are often willing participants. As X Factor’s Cheryl has said after being ‘body shamed: ‘There is no

YOU mightn’t put them together but three women who made headlines this week reveal a lot about what it means to be female in today’s world. In no particular order, they are: X Factor judge Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Queen Elizabeth II, who became the longest reigning British monarch ever on Wednesday. Congratulations Ma’am.

There was much to celebrate. I, for one, punched the air when X Factor’s Cheryl hit back at the so-called ‘body shamers’ who called her a “bag of bones”.