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Banning Saudi’s Olympic-Sized Sexism

Banning Saudi’s Olympic-Sized Sexism

April 6, 2012 No Comments

Remember all of the cheer and celebration when Saudi Arabia said it would allow women to perform in the Olympics for the first time? Well, you can forget all of that. They still don’t respect women enough to let them play. Saudi Arabia’s Olympic chief said Thursday that women would not be allowed to participate ...

Virginity Tests Banned In Egypt

Virginity Tests Banned In Egypt

December 28, 2011 No Comments

After suffering abuse, humiliation and abject degradation at the hands of Egypt’s interim military rulers, an Egyptian civilian court has finally ruled an end to virginity tests on female detainees. The practice of making women strip and spread their legs to determine their sexual status has been defended by the Egyptian army. One official said ...

Saying No To Son Preference

Saying No To Son Preference

November 30, 2011 No Comments

Most women just want healthy babies. Period. The reality, though, is there’s still evidence of son preference in many countries. We immediately turn our minds to India and China, where sex-selection became so widespread that they’re now figuring out how to rectify extreme gender imbalance. Today, the United Nations favours a ban on all sex-based ...

First Fine For Veil Issused In France

First Fine For Veil Issused In France

April 12, 2011 No Comments

Covering your face in public became illegal in France yesterday, and the police have already found their first target. A woman was stopped in a shopping centre on Monday evening for covering her face with an Islamic veil. She was given a ticket requiring her to make the choice between paying 150 Euros or attending ...

Is It Male Genital Mutilation?

Is It Male Genital Mutilation?

December 6, 2010 1 Comment

Circumcisions used to be standard for newborn boys in North America. One man thinks that it should be outlawed for causing “excruciating pain, nerve destruction, loss of normal, natural and functional tissue, infection, disfigurement and sometimes death.” Lloyd Schofield thinks it is genital mutilation. He wants San Francisco to charge parents a $1000 fine and ...

Here’s My Niqab, Bitch — A Well-Heeled French Protest Takes To The Streets

Here’s My Niqab, Bitch — A Well-Heeled French Protest Takes To The Streets

October 5, 2010 No Comments

The French are known for revolution and fashion, so there was no doubt the protest against the burqa ban would be good — but this is a glorious fuck you. The Niqabitches donned a niqab, short shorts and high heels to hit the streets of Paris. As they strolled past government offices, with their naked ...

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité But No Burqas

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité But No Burqas

September 15, 2010 No Comments

The French Senate has voted 246 to 1, in favour of a law making wearing a burqa illegal. The ban includes all full face veils such as the burqa (mesh cloth covers the face) and niqab (a small opening is made for the eyes). The hijab (headscarf), and other styles of traditional Muslim dress that ...

They Can’t Eat Spaghetti Through A Veil

They Can’t Eat Spaghetti Through A Veil

January 30, 2010 No Comments

Italy is looking into banning burqas and niqabs. This follows France’s obsession with the cloth, and announcement that people wearing it will be banned from all government activities, including transportation. Of course, forcing women to do things against their will is what feminism is all about. I mean, women can’t be trusted to make their ...

Sarkozy Backs Burqa Ban Bullshit

Sarkozy Backs Burqa Ban Bullshit

January 26, 2010 No Comments

A report issued today in France calls for the ban of the full face covering worn by some devout Muslim women, called a niqab. The president is due to sign the proposals today. Last week he called the garment “contrary to our values and to the ideals we have of women’s dignity”.

Muslim Women Balk At Religious Ruling Forcing Them To Show Their Faces

Muslim Women Balk At Religious Ruling Forcing Them To Show Their Faces

November 3, 2009 No Comments

Egyptian women are banned from wearing the niqab in all female schools and the mainstream media there is supporting the decision. But people are furious, saying it is interference with their right to practice Islam. Critics hit back, saying the Arabic cultural import has nothing to do with religion.

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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