Winning the Nobel Prize would be enough to go to anyone’s head, but VS Naipaul may possibly have an over-inflated sense of his own importance. The author sparked controversy when he declared there was no female writer whom he considers his equal earlier this week. “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is by no means an anti-feminist novel, it’s just a little grey in areas. Mostly it’s disappointing that JK Rowling lay such wonderful foundations for a well-balanced character base, but in the end, her undoing was in the details. Her female characters are just as likely to be smart ...
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. I have no literary ...
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...
