One of the best thing you can do for your relationship is to be a feminist. The women are happier in the partnership, but so are the men. They reported more stable relationships with greater sexual satisfaction. Researchers from Rutgers University surveyed 242 undergraduates and 289 older people about the quality of their romances, feminism, ...
Muslim women love America. To them is is a place where they can have the freedom to be both American and Muslim, and take on greater leadership roles than they would be allowed in most Muslim countries. Shireen Zaman, who is the Executive Director of Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, calls it “ a quiet or ...
Tony Porter, an educator and activist against violence against women, has called for men to stop “acting like a man” and to break out of the “man box.” This “man box” is what he calls the “collective socialization of men”. It perpetuates the idea that men are not allowed to have feelings, that they are ...
Amazon.com WidgetsKill the Princess: Why Women Still Aren’t Free from the Quest for a Fairytale Life, has a title that created high expectations for me. I was hoping for a book designed to help women realize why they might mistakenly believe in a White Knight and teach them instead how to be self-sufficient and independent. ...
Amanda Visell has a series of fantastic posters for girls. But it is thing one, entitled We Are All Kings, which reminds me of one of my favourite poems. The Adventures of Isabel by Odgen Nash Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn’t care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear’s ...
The newest superhero in the Marvel Comic cast is a Latino-American teenage girl who kicks ass. She is the latest incarnation of Spider-Girl, is unrelated to the Spider-Man character, but they do hang out and he acts as her mentor. Marvel wants her to provide a “positive, modern image of an empowered young woman.” They ...
In a country where women are stoned for immodesty, appearing in a soap opera is practically a political statement. However, for many of these actresses, financial need overshadows their concerns about respect. The Secret of this House is Afghanistan’s first soap opera, created as a more wholesome alternative to those racy Hindi shows from India. ...
Conservative women are storming the gates, ready to take back America. A new documentary (in the Michael Moore style) Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of The Conservative Woman chronicles the rise of the female side of the Republican party. Fire From The Heartland from Citizens United on Vimeo. Yep, that is Ann Coulter saying ...
Jenna Jameson, star of such films as Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 35 and Up and Cummers, has warned girls off a career in the porn industry. Speaking at the VMAs on Sunday, she said that it can be a tough industry. “It’s a hard lifestyle and I made the choice and I was able to ...
A country that discriminates against half its population cannot be held up as a great democracy. — Larry Flynt
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
