France has gotten rid of the terms “Mademoiselle” and “nom de jeune fille” in all official documents. The French terms for “Miss” and “maiden name” are sexist because they describe the marital status of a woman. “Miss” implies that a woman is available, something that not every woman wants shared. The idea of a maiden ...
Women in Québec are being disproportionately affected by laws that are making the province increasingly secular. Two years ago 80 members of the En Route Foundation, a Catholic lay group, gathered in a hall rented from the city and watched an inspirational video. They prayed, celebrated mass and ate a potluck lunch. Sound suspicious? Maybe not to us regular folks ...
Robin Hood, David Bowie and Mick Jagger are three men who really knew how to wear tights and, although a questionable trend at first, it became kind of hot (remember Bowie’s bulging member in Labyrinth?). But if you have to stop and ponder whether you want to see men in tights outside the world of ballet, how ...
When is it okay to rip off a woman’s clothes in public? To punch her and call her a whore? Apparently, some French people believe this is appropriate if she violates a ban on burqas. Muslim women are reporting an increase in instances of street harassment since the implementation of the burqa ban. Some bus ...
France may have tanked very early on in World War II because of its ill-advised military tactic but that doesn’t mean that the French people didn’t still have a killer weapon against Nazis during the Occupation and the collaboration in Vichy: sexually transmitted diseases. In a letter to Hitler, SS chief Heinrich Himmler told that ...
Covering your face in public became illegal in France yesterday, and the police have already found their first target. A woman was stopped in a shopping centre on Monday evening for covering her face with an Islamic veil. She was given a ticket requiring her to make the choice between paying 150 Euros or attending ...
The Pope ordered the French First Lady to stay home when her husband visited the Vatican earlier this month. The Pope was concerned that her presence would spark a rash of nude and scantily-clad photos from her modelling career being published in Italian newspapers. Most especially, he didn’t want his picture to be beside sexy photos ...
The French are known for revolution and fashion, so there was no doubt the protest against the burqa ban would be good — but this is a glorious fuck you. The Niqabitches donned a niqab, short shorts and high heels to hit the streets of Paris. As they strolled past government offices, with their naked ...
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 ...
Misdirection is the hand moving faster than the eye. It was easy in this case, as the eyes were distracted by a pair of naked breasts. So distracted that this man didn’t noticed the 300 euros that were being withdrawn from his bank account. Police are searching for a pair of attractive female thieves after ...
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
