Feminists have become one of the most misunderstood groups around today. At least 100 years ago, everybody knew it was about getting the vote, and in the 1960s it was about sexual equality. Amazon.com WidgetsThe Noughtie Girl’s Guide To Feminism, by Ellie Levenson, examines what feminism hopes to achieve today.
Testosterone’s has been shown in a study to “encourage decency and fair play”. It looks like in the battle between nature and nurture, in terms of men being more aggressive because of their hormones, that nurture has won this round. When they gave participants in the study a placebo, but they thought they had been given testosterone, ...
School boys in Australia are going to get lessons on “Respectful Relationships Education” to help combat violence against women. Critics have come down on this education program claiming that it will be full of “feminist propaganda” and demonise the boys. Why is it that whenever people hear about feminist theory they get their backs up? Feminism ...
April Ashley, Britain’s first transsexual to have a sex change, celebrates her 50th anniversary of being a woman next year. She is now taking part in an exhibition at Welcome Collection exploring how identity is formed and examines legal, emotional, and scientific aspects of transsexualism. Despite suffering beating from her parents, attempting suicide, being institutionalised, and being ...
Gee golly gosh men are stupid. Especially husbands. They just can’t do anything without our help. But wait! Is that just my latent femininity being jealous of my husband’s prowess around the house? Yes, according to research this week from Sex Roles. The hapless husbands are ubiquitous. They populate our TV on sitcoms and commercials, ...
Caster Semenya, the runner who caused controversy over her gender, has been allowed to keep her gold medal from the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. Her gender is still not ’decided’, but this shows she finally has some conclusion and hopefully can get on with being a normal 18-year-old girl. Results from her gender test will be ...
Boys are more feminine when their mothers are exposed to certain chemicals while pregnant. Researchers have found that these boys are “feminised”. These chemicals are mostly found in vinyl flooring, shower curtains, and plastic furniture. In extreme situations these boys are born with “genital abnormalities” and “males exposed to high doses in the womb went on ...
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.
Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
The Daily Mail has published a story that attempts to explain how the contraceptive pill might cause women to be attracted to less masculine men and how taking the pill makes women less attractive to men. This is a great example of how scientific research is often drastically misrepresented by the media and how the ...
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their...
Take a look at how Barbie and Playboy Bunnies have influenced each other – an amazing similarity!
Men like peeing outside. That’s a fact. Of course, they are well equipped to do so, with a handy...
There aren’t many gender-exclusive spaces left in our terribly enlightened society. Who needs them? Men’s clubs filled with (I...
Step down, Twihards, it’s time for evolution via the Hunger Games revolution. Let The Games begin! I don’t want...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend is obsessed with unicorns. She collects unicorn toys, and has pictures of them all...
If you’re interested in feminist discussions of pornography, there are a number of must-read texts you should check out...
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