Posts by Elizabeth Sankey

Being spat out into this world you don’t have much choice as to where you land - most of us biding our time between holidays, surrounded by grey clouds, misery, and Jeremy Kyle. If Elizabeth Sankey could have chosen where she grew up, it would have been one of these places.

Hollywood is lying to you, and not just you but your friends, your lovers, your parents, your cats, and your dogs, and it will keep on lying until we rise up to stop it.

She does. She really really does. (This nostalgia drenched post also features ‘Sister Sister’, ‘Blossom’ and ‘The Biz’).

With ‘The Runaways’ film soon to hit our shores, it’s a good time to look back at the best girl groups whose stories haven’t yet been portrayed in film. And yes, we do mean Kenickie.

Elizabeth thinks Platform has gotten too testosterone heavy recently and she is here to redress the balance. She want to ‘take something back for womankind everywhere’ by taking ‘a closer look at some of the worst things some boys say/believe about women’. Here she goes…

One of the hardest things about life is that it’s very rare things will go the way you plan. It’s like the more you try to organise or control situations, the more likely they are to mess up. We’re all doomed basically.

Not everything (marriage, GCSE’s, being 21) is as important as “society” would have us believe. Milestones don’t mean jack.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that at some point most people will find themselves in an office. By office I don’t mean one of the cool sexy offices that people in Advertising frequent - with big bowls of sweets, colourful cartoonish decor, and a really hot receptionist.

You know that film ‘Beaches’, where the hammy redhead is best mates with the aneamic-looking grumpy brunette, then grumpy brunette dies and redhead yodels “You are the wind beneath my wings” as the coffin is lowered? Well in real life stuff like that never happens.

Love’s not half bad, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a self-obsessed idiot whose life is so boring they spend their days creating extended emotional problems out of the fact they were bullied in School by a fat kid called Clint Sparklehorse.