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Sexual Equality For Crazy Drivers

Sexual Equality For Crazy Drivers

July 16, 2011 No Comments

I’ve been driving a lot recently.  A lot.  We’ve moved to an island for a year, and it’s quite rural, with plenty of wide-open spaces and small roads.  I’ve been driving to and from work every day, as well as most evenings and weekends, through lovely scenery, exploring the island, looking for somewhere for us ...

Sexism Is Alive And Well (But Let A Woman Drive And She’ll Run It Over)

Sexism Is Alive And Well (But Let A Woman Drive And She’ll Run It Over)

July 21, 2010 No Comments

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The only thing worse that a Sunday Driver is a Lady Driver (that is, if you are unwilling to print racial epithets). Many of our prejudices have some basis in fact, which is why I was so interested to read the Daily Mail’s informative investigation into why women are such ...

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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