School is often idealized as the great equalizer because the education it provides is meant to allow kids from all socio-economic backgrounds to reach the same goals. Sadly, it often makes the news for being a big machine of conformation. Sam Saurs, a 15-year-old boy from Port Orchard, WA, was just suspended from ...
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a novel that sits on a fence between sexism and anti-sexism throughout, but ultimately proves that a woman can accomplish the impossible just as much as any man. The story surrounds Lauren, a young girl who goes from ages 15 to 18 within the novel. The time ...
Dear Madame X, Sometimes I like to wear women’s clothing, but I am not gay. I have had girlfriends before but no one has ever caught me. It’s not a sexual thing, just something I like to do. I usually dress up on Sundays and say I am going to Church. My new girlfriend has ...
James Franco is on the latest issue of Candy. According to their Facebook page, the magazine is “completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.” Some have questioned whether it is appropriate for a non-transvestite actor to don the drag for the cover, but his endorsement of the mag ...
England has quite a reputation. The tourist board likes to promote the castles. But the Brits themselves are also interesting. In addition to a love of animals, they also have a reputation for cultivating eccentricity. Put it all together and you get an amazing headline.
The bane of my existence, the female school uniform, might just be illegal in the UK. Forcing transgender girls to dress in skirts runs afoul of equality and human rights legislation, meaning that schools can’t force any girls into the soul sucking plaid. Perhaps this clothing item will end up where it belongs, in history ...
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.
It is against the law for women in France to wear pants, unless they are holding the reigns of a horse, or the handlebars of a bicycle. Which means French policewomen are breaking the law. The law initially came into force in 1800. The Paris police chief who proposed it apparently had a problem with ...
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
