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Polanski To Be Sent To USA For Trial

Polanski To Be Sent To USA For Trial

April 23, 2010 No Comments

Roman Polanski allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978 in California. He has been under house arrest in Switzerland since September last year. His lawyers wanted the trial to go on without him in America but it has been ruled that he must be extradited.

Are Orthodox Jewish Practices Racist? The UK Supreme Court Will Decide

Are Orthodox Jewish Practices Racist? The UK Supreme Court Will Decide

November 9, 2009 3 Comments

A 12 year old boy was denied admittance to a Jewish school in London on the basis that he was not Jewish. Although the entire family practices Judaism, the fact that the mother was not born into the faith meant that the child was not Jewish. A British court has called that decision racist. The ...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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