Does a perfect mother exist? According to French feminist Elisabeth Badinter, this creature is a myth. Earlier this month, her book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women was translated into English. Already a best seller in France, the book boldly proclaims that the myth of the modern perfect mother has become ...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other food at all), and you haven’t had a period since before your pregnancy, then your fertility will be delayed (up to 98% effective method of contraception). However, there’s no way to know when you will become ...
Since my friend had her first baby, she’s had her tits out all over town. Most folk have just ignored them, since they generally have an infant attached. She’s not pole dancing with sequinned tassles whacking people in the face or anything like that. Breastfeeding isn’t LIKE that. She didn’t make a decision to actively ...
We often hear about women’s rights and human rights, but what about babies’ rights? No, I’m not talking about “fetus rights” or any of the crap that pro-lifers come out with; I mean the basic rights that babies should be entitled to have once they have been born into the world. The UK-based charity NSPCC ...
This just in: there’s an American breast milk shortage! And we need your help (we’re looking at you, American moms!). Non-profit milk banks in the USA have issued a plea for more mothers to donate breast milk. Donated breast milk can save the lives of preterm babies whose moms are unable to produce milk themselves. ...
This week is Boycott Nestlé week. A lot of recent feminist chatter has been devoted to a debate about whether formula feeding is an equal choice for moms, with most commentators defending the right of mothers to pick formula feeding over breastfeeding. The debate so far has focused entirely on western mothers though, and effectively ...
Breastfeeding mommies mimic bears in their awesome child-protection skills, according to a new study. Basically, they will kick your ass. Research on non-human mammals discovered that feeding her young makes a new animal mommy all kinds of awesome. Apparently, lactation lowers the fear response and heightens defensive aggression in turn. So, why not see if ...
Tina Fey is a feminist. That much becomes almost immediately evident after picking up Bossypants. As I had always hoped she would be, Fey is all about the sisterhood. Her autobiography tells us never to be tricked into believing women are in competition with each other or to buy into the idea that there’s a ...
Dear Madame X, My baby turns me on, well I don’t think it’s my baby but it still creeps me out. She took to breastfeeding immediately, like the little trooper that she is, and every session sees her contentedly sucking away before drifting off to sleep. The problem is that that sensation turns me on. ...
Babies from around the world filled their bellies with milk this weekend to mark the end of World Breastfeeding Week. In over 170 different countries, moms breastfed their little ones to spread awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding and break a world record for the most women breastfeeding simultaneously. The event, appropriately titled “The Big ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
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...
