It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on the run from their sweltering offices and everyone briefly falls in love with someone they’d normally ignore. It’s also time for summer pursuits, like cycling. I’m in the market for a two-wheeler, having recently moved from ...
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d escaped from the office to the organic bakery across the street, and found an outdoor table where I could read my book and drink the peppermint tea I’ve taken to drinking instead of coffee, to avoid ...
Anyone browsing on the Voice website (the online version of the British Columbia-based Indo-Canadian newspaper the Voice) this week may have noticed an advert for sex selection IVF treatment at a Washington State-based clinic. Not only is this treatment unethical, it is illegal in Canada, so what exactly is going on here? Sex-selection techniques are ...
Female writers may exist, but their work is not being recognized nor rewarded. If you beg to differ, I give you Exhibit A: “Women have been entirely shut out of the big-league categories of the National Magazine Awards.” Although they’re nominated for fiction awards, there’s a complete absence of women in the major categories of reporting, ...
If you put your faith in popular media you’d assume that men drool at the mention of sex but wince at the sound of snuggle and that women are so snuggle obsessed that they’ll even go to the extraordinary lengths of having sex to get it. Truth is, the gap in male and female needs ...
We all know that toy advertisements use a lot of gender stereotypes in their commercials. Girls get Barbies, clothes, makeup and rainbows. Boys get guns, war, action and loud noises. This is nothing new. But this website is new. A new site lets you “mash up” boys’ and girls’ toy commercials so that you can ...
On Leap Day, socially forward women can break free of the confines of gender, creating a topsy-turvy world where social conventions are, for once, benched. For years, you have waited for your boyfriend to pop the question. Every sports event you stare at the JumboTron and during a romantic dinner you eat in small bites ...
What happens when a child strongly identifies with a sex that doesn’t match their own body? Zach Avery may have been born with boy parts but he knew he wanted to be a girl by the age of three. Although initially Zach can dress up as a girl without being betrayed by his “boyness,” puberty ...
During a couple’s “honeymoon phase” usually the only thing on the menu is sex. But once this phase is over and your crotch is burning from over-stimulation, perhaps you start to focus on other parts of your relationship. Maybe you even find lame excuses to say no to sex. Supposedly, this is a phenomenon unique to ...
Small changes in legislation can positively affect women’s lives. Take India for example. In 1993, a law was implemented requiring that a third of all local government council seats be held by women. The hope behind the legislation was that “women’s status might improve” by putting them in positions of influence and power where they ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
