Clara Belle used to be a beauty pageant protester. And now she is beauty queen. “A few months ago I would have been far more likely to be standing outside the Miss World venue protesting at the event than attending it,” she wrote. But when she entered the Miss London pageant in April to report ...
Miss San Antonio, Texas, had her crown taken away from her because, she claims, they thought she was too fat to keep it. Domonique Ramirez, a 17-year-old who wears a size 2, had her crown given to the competition runner-up in February, but has since won it back. The jury clearly wasn’t too sure what ...
Italy has its share of beautiful women and it acknowledges that they won’t all be thin. They have been running the Miss Chubby pageant for 20 years and announced the most recent winner yesterday. This year’s winner is Angela Scognamiglio who feels like she has won the lottery with this prize. Rules are not much ...
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.
In a country where gay sex was illegal until 1997 and homosexuality was considered a disease until 2001 there is finally some showing of acceptance with the first ever Mr. Gay China being held in a Beijing night club. The winner will go on to compete in Worldwide Mr. Gay. The winner will be picked ...
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 i n 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.
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 i n 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.
The feminist movement has allowed women to achieve any and all of their dreams, including being both a soldier and a beauty queen. Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge has become Miss England and after the Miss World 2009 Festival L/Cl Hodge will go on to serve in Afghanistan next year.
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Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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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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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...
