For 6,000 years, there has been a young couple embracing in their final resting place, under the ground of Valdaro, Italy. The young skeletal lovers, are believed to have been 18 to 20-years-old when they passed. Embracing each other all the way back to the Neolithic period, cuddled close together, limbs intertwined, and faces looking ...
In September, Italy could be the next country to pass a law banning burqas, following in the footsteps of France and Belgium. A parliamentary commission approved a draft of the law on Tuesday. The current draft forbids women from wearing a burqa or naqib, but also prohibits anyone from covering their faces with a motorcycle ...
LGBT intolerance seems to be running high these days. Whether it’s in Canada where parents are pulling their kids out of a BC school that implemented a policy to protect LGBT students or among the highest ranks of the Italian Government, gay rights aren’t getting the recognition they deserve. Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, voted against widening ...
Needing to make cut-backs, an Italian company fired 13 of their 18 female staff members because they are mothers. Engineering firm Ma-Vib believes that women should stay at home with the children. Sending our culture back about 70 years, the small company decided that instead of firing men who provide the main income of the ...
Advertising executives are challenging sleazy, sexist marketing techniques that have long been the norm in Italy. A campaign was launched earlier this year by the Italian Art Directors Club (ADCI) which calls on advertisers to stop appealing to the lowest common denominator in society, and experiment with more innovative types of promotion. More than 200 industry backers ...
An Italian court has denied a woman alimony because she suggested having an open marriage with her husband — before they got married. The idea was never put into practice and the couple were faithful throughout their marriage. Now, it if as if their marriage never was. The union was annulled by an ecclesiastical court in ...
In Novara in Italy they have banned the burka in public places. The first woman in Italy has been fined 500 Euros for wearing her burka in the post office. For any family this is a hefty fine and for this Tunisian immigrant family they have said it will be a struggle. The laws are ...
It’s a good thing skinny jeans are going out of fashion because wearing them means you’re basically agreeing to be raped. At least that’s what an Australian court ruled yesterday. Of course if history can be trusted, it looks like no jeans are safe from scrutiny.
Italy is looking into banning burqas and niqabs. This follows France’s obsession with the cloth, and announcement that people wearing it will be banned from all government activities, including transportation. Of course, forcing women to do things against their will is what feminism is all about. I mean, women can’t be trusted to make their ...
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...
