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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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”.
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.
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Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
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Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
