Tomorrow, January 22, is the 38th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the USA. This was a landmark case for the rights of women to control their bodies. But the right to an abortion has been fraught with difficulties since the beginning, including recent issues over parental notification laws, ultrasound ...
We have been following the case of Scott Roeder, the man who killed Dr. Tiller, a late-term abortion doctor in the USA for a while now. The trial has finally come to an end and I am happy to say he has been sentenced to 50 years in jail without the option of parole. ...
Scott Roeder, the murderer of Dr. Tiller, one of only a handful of those who perform late-term abortions in the USA, was sentenced to life in prison today. I am glad this has happened but it scares me that Roeder’s supporters say that “the outcome would only encourage more violence.” Roeder, of course, feels that ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
