Katie Glass

A foolish proposal

The idea that women must wait for 29 February implies that we’re not allowed to propose whenever we want

issue 27 February 2016

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I’m planning to propose to my boyfriend this leap year. I’m proposing that he earns another £10,000 and loses a stone. But marriage? Hell, no.

I don’t know why, in the age of equality, society still endorses women going down on bended knee on one solitary day every four years.

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