Apparently there is an increasing trend in lesbianism in UAE schools and parents and counsellors are working hard to try to tackle the issue. I know I should be used to this by now, but the UAE continues to astound me with how backward it is around sexuality and how discriminatory and ostracising the society ...
Mack, Morning Quickie
Russian authorities are refusing to let Svetlana Izambayeva adopt her 10 year old brother, preferring the boy remain in an orphanage to living with his sister. Why? Svatlana is HIV positive.
Worried that the disease will not kill them fast enough, a law is making it’s way through Uganda’s parliament that proposes executing gay people who are HIV positive. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 also provides life imprisonment for those who participate in gay sex. Someone clearly misread the World AIDS day information pack. The “aggravated homosexuality” ...
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 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 ...
Beating up people for being fat is not ok, but India Knight says it is their own fault for piling on the pounds. The Times columnist, also the author of a diet book, writes in her article that if the “fatties” don’t like the harassment they should go on a diet. They are the problem, ...
The American Dream; an idea that in America anyone can marry, have kids and a dog, buy a house, and have their own white picket fence. Not so for a couple in Louisiana where a judge refused to give them a marriage license because one is white and one black and he worries about the ...
This week, for a change of pace, I’m looking at non-fiction online. Bookslut is an established and well-publicised e-zine...
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet...
Happy Earth Day! Earth Day Network and Women Saving the World - Kathleen Rogers from Womensphere on Vimeo.
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment...
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d...
Touch his penis! Men like it and it feels good. Plus sometimes they do need help getting hard and...
On rare occasions, television does reflect real life. A new series that debuted on HBO last weekend, Girls offers...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend seems to have a man-crush on one of his male friends who he really...
