Greatest hits from the grimoire
Eating mansplainers for breakfast
Dearest hags,
Our coven is growing – and we want to extend a very witchy welcome to our new subscribers. Come in, place your blood offering on the pile, pull up a moss-covered toadstool, and get comfortable.
But for all our crones, whether old or new, this week we’re digging into our archives to bring you some HEX content you might have missed. It’s meaty. Don’t say we don’t spoil you 😘
Yours in perpetual haggery,
The HEX team
TIT BITS
Keeping abreast of the HEX archive of science, feminism and patriarchal bollocks
Bitter brew
If there’s one thing we womenfolk really adore while we’re pregnant, it’s completely unsolicited and unscientific “advice” from underqualified men. Oh wait. No. We were thinking of shortbread just there. Check out an excellent takedown of some truly terrible coverage of the risks of coffee in pregnancy here. Btw, you can pry our coffee from our cold, dead hands.
So much weight stigma
Back in the ye olden days of our very first issue, we pulled together the latest weight-related research in honour of Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2020. Check it out here.
Stop fixing women
Women in science are bloody brilliant, but the patriarchy sure does like to get in their way and then have the audacity to encourage them to behave more like men. We discuss how this lazy support isn’t helping anyone and (as always) puts the burden to fix things on women.
Covid coverage: where are the women?
Turns out pandemic news coverage is a total sausage fest. Every woman included in news stories is drowned out by at least three men, according to a report from the IWMF. Is the explanation that epidemiology is simply a male-dominated area? (Spoilers: NOPE).
Taking the piss
Whether because of painfully long queues at gigs or threats of disease or sexual assault, women's toilets have long been a feminist issue. Why? Garland yourself in panic-bought toilet paper, settle yourself on your porcelain throne, and let us tell you a story of loos and ladies…
TO THE KRAKEN 🦑
In honour of Shrove Tuesday, Ms K is sharing her favourite savoury pancake recipe
Even terrifying ancient hellbeasts like to acknowledge the odd public holiday. A keen gourmand, Ms K has her pancake mixture down.
“Whisk together eggs, flour and milk, and fry lightly,” she says, adroitly flipping the mixture in her tentacles of justice. “Then you can top it with all manner of ingredients, but personally, I like to keep it simple. Spread with a thick layer of misogynist innards, and apply a liberal dusting of softboi tears. Sprinkle over the torn limbs of mansplainers for a more decadent version of this classic dish.”
BON APPETIT.
For more must-make meal ideas, see our previous issues:
Quick and easy Crispy Roasted Reporters
Spatchcocked Monarch with a side of seared male surgeons
Salty fake doctors with a Wall Street journalist reduction
Feminists ruin everything
Last night we dreamt we went to Manderley again. If you’re planning a visit, here’s why you should skip the Netflix version.
More things flipping our pancakes this week:
Pretending we’re at our favourite bar | This supercool children’s book on nanotechnology | This she shanty | The Vulvart Museum
The HEX Science team
🧬Jean Splicer | ☢ Marie Fury | 🧠 Rorschach Tess | 🔬 Rosalind Frankly