One editorial in last week’s New York Times has started a significant debate about women of colour and their relationship with their bodies. Alice Randall wrote that many black women are fat because “we want to be.” That is why, she explains, “four out of five black women are seriously overweight” and “one out of four ...
What would we do in a world without women? This is usually a philosophical question for apocalyptic novels that take place far into the future, but China is having to face it now. China may be bridging the gender gap that widened after the Chinese government instituted the one-child policy in 1980, but there’s still ...
Women travelling in busy train carriages often have to deal with men taking advantage by purposefully bumping into them. Jakarta, Indonesia, is now introducing women-only train carriages along a busy commuter route to stop this problem. But is this going to work?
Watching porn in a private booth in a sex shop isn’t exactly what I would call a cultural event. A sex shop owner has been trying to get tax exemptions since 2004 that are given to other cultural events in Belgium. Not surprisingly, the final answer is no, The Erotic Cinema is not eligible for these exemptions. ...
Dubai gets a lot of attention for its staggering displays of wealth, as it positions itself as a London-meets-Disneyland on crack. But that wasn’t the experience for one British couple, who face a 30-day jail sentence for kissing. Back in November, the two defendants were casually strolling through a beachfront shopping mall when the offending ...
Testosterone’s has been shown in a study to “encourage decency and fair play”. It looks like in the battle between nature and nurture, in terms of men being more aggressive because of their hormones, that nurture has won this round. When they gave participants in the study a placebo, but they thought they had been given testosterone, ...
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...
