Many people come to Canada because it’s place of diversity and freedom. Imagine your shock, a Muslim woman, being forced to take off your veil and expose yourself in public for your first official act as a Canadian citizen. Yesterday a ban was put in place where all face coverings must be removed during the ...
The French Senate has voted 246 to 1, in favour of a law making wearing a burqa illegal. The ban includes all full face veils such as the burqa (mesh cloth covers the face) and niqab (a small opening is made for the eyes). The hijab (headscarf), and other styles of traditional Muslim dress that ...
On one hand you have a naked woman being filmed having explicit sex. On the other you have a Muslim woman wearing a face veil shopping in Paris. What do they have in common? They are both participating in the degradation of women, at least in theory.
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Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
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Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
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Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
