If you’re a single woman travelling alone, put a ring on it. That’s right. A recent travel guide issued by Foreign Affairs Canada recommends that globetrotting women minus a mister should wear a wedding ring — real or fake. But there’s more. As if posing as a married woman wasn’t enough, they also recommend that ...
Dubai has employed its first female train driver. In fact, Mariam Al Safar is the first woman to be employed as a train driver in the whole of the Middle East. Ms. Al Safar is in charge of the whole train – she has the skills to drive the train but because the system is ...
Thailand looks like it’s on its way to political recovery. And that starts with a new turn in its history with the election of the country’s first female Prime Minister. Her name is Yingluck Shinawatra, she’s 44 and won the election by a landslide as the candidate for the Puea Thai Party in the country’s ...
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 ...
A British woman and her fiancé were on holiday in Dubai celebrating their engagement when she was allegedly raped in the hotel bathroom after passing out from too much alcohol. She and her fiancé reported this to police and were quickly arrested for illegal drinking and sex outside of marriage. They could face up to ...
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...
