Focus on the Family is a conservative pro-life, anti-birth control, anti-sex education, anti-gay organisation. In spite of CBS’s rule on no advocacy in advertising, they have given approval for a 30 second advertisement to be played during the Superbowl tomorrow (February 7), a tv slot that will have up to 100 million viewers. CBS executives approved a script for ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe in women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
Two men have been arrested in Malawi for putting up posters supporting gay rights. The Centre for the Development of People has recently been formed “to fight for the rights of homosexuals and other minorities.” This case comes soon after a gay couple in Malawi were arrested for “unnatural acts and gross indecency” when they attempted ...
A 19-year-old New Zealand woman has auctioned off her virginity for over NZ$45,000 after receiving over 1,200 offers. She plans to use this money to pay her university tuition fees. It seems that New Zealand virginity isn’t quite as good as American virginity where a woman recently got an offer over $5 million. Is this becoming ...
Dr. Tiller, the American abortion doctor killed in May 2009, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by NARAL Pro-Choice yesterday. They created this video (after jump) as a tribute to his life and his work. His family accepted the award on his behalf.
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend REFUSES to go down on me when I have my period. He just point-blank refuses. He says it’s disgusting and he doesn’t like the smell or taste. I told him he was being sexist and that there is nothing wrong with it. We can do everything else when I have ...
The Pope has declared that the UK’s attempt at equality, in the form of the UK Equality Bill, “violates natural law”. Churches in the UK worry that they would be forced to hire gay and transsexual people. Because of the Pope’s declaration against equality, protests are being planned for his visit to the UK later ...
Models may be stunning but to claim they show that “perfection…varies” is ridiculous. This is what Love Magazine is claiming to do with naked supermodels (such as Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss) on their next cover.
So, yet again, Morning Quickie is bringing you a censorship story from the concerned parents of America. This time a school district banned Anne Frank’s Diary because of one parent’s concern “about the sexual nature of the vagina passage”. That’s right, only one person in the entire school district in Virginia thinks the passage is ...
The most effective morning after pill has hit the market. You can pop it five days after unprotected sex. But anti-abortion advocates warn that this delay means that the pill doesn’t stop a pregnancy, it terminates it. If taken regularly, within 72 hours, the new pill Ellaone will prevent 60 percent of pregnancies. However, the ...
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. ~ Coco Chanel
Happy Easter!
“Hell is other people,” as the philosopher said. And nowhere is this more true than in the office. Most...
