Time‘s Person of the Year is “The Protestor.” Fair enough. Nobody can deny it was a year where people expressed dissatisfaction. The protestor can be anyone — man or woman. But when you take the protestor out of the equation to look at other candidates for the Person of the Year title, there’s a notable absence of ...
Labour Day is today! A day to celebrate all of the hard workers and the yearly achievements of the average hard-working citizen. Women have come pretty damn far from the installment of the holiday in 1882. Not only have we made strides in equality surrounding all aspects of life, we have taken some pretty large ...
Forbes has announced its list of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women for 2011, complete with powerhouses like Oprah, J.K. Rowling, Diane Sawyer and even Lady Gaga. Let’s examine the results. Are these women worthy of such power? Bear with me here. We have the second most powerful, Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State and ...
Forbes’ annual list of the world’s most powerful women was released this week and brought with it some welcome changes to the landscape of powerful ladies. This year more of the top spots than ever seemed to be filled by women of colour or non-Western background, women of all ages and from increasingly diverse fields ...
You don’t have to look at the polls to see that Obama may be in trouble. Many Democrats are worried that a failing economy and declining ratings could cost Obama his re-election. But if not Obama, who? Hilary Clinton now stands in a position similar to where Obama was in 2008: she is untainted by ...
It’s been acceptable for women to wear pants since the 1960s, but girlie girls still prefer dresses. If you’re a woman and you opt for a pantsuit over a dress, you must have your Xs and Ys crossed. Things only get worse if you’re in a position of power. Hilary Clinton wore a pantsuit when ...
Of the many images that we are bombarded with every day in the media, not many photographs are as unforgettable as the now notorious Situation Room picture. Like September 11th, the day Osama Bin Laden was killed will be a date that is burned into our brains forever. After all, it’s a moment the world ...
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.
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...
