Jailers can strip-search anyone who is being arrested, no matter how minor the crime, according to a Supreme Court ruling Monday. If you get caught driving without a license, walking your dog without a leash, or being drunk in public, you can be stripped naked and searched before taken to jail. Even if police have ...
Step down, Twihards, it’s time for evolution via the Hunger Games revolution. Let The Games begin! I don’t want to upset any Twilight fans, but the series boils down to a drawn out love affair that is not consummated for many moons. Bella and Edward meet in the first book and don’t have sex until…wait for ...
Eliminating child porn on the web is a noble goal, but Canadian authorities may need to tread lightly in their efforts to search and destroy pedophiles. Why? If a new bill is introduced requiring “internet service providers to give subscriber data to police and national security agencies without a warrant, including names, unlisted phone numbers ...
After suffering abuse, humiliation and abject degradation at the hands of Egypt’s interim military rulers, an Egyptian civilian court has finally ruled an end to virginity tests on female detainees. The practice of making women strip and spread their legs to determine their sexual status has been defended by the Egyptian army. One official said ...
Justice is served, although it took 28 years to get there. Women of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) were reinstated $150 million for unequal pay today after a long battle that began in 1983. The PSAC filed a complaint after they found that male clerical workers were getting paid more than female workers ...
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry opened this morning surrounded by protesters demanding justice. Over the next eight months, the inquiry will be looking into the way the police handled the investigation of missing women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, who began disappearing in the early 1990s. When Robert Pickton was finally arrested in 2002, the ...
Robert Pickton was convicted of killing six women when it’s believed that he could have murdered another 27. So where are his missing victims? Perhaps they’re forever lost, but we must continue to find out why so many crimes of violence against women weren’t properly investigated. The BC Missing Women Inquiry was commissioned to give ...
Although specific body parts don’t usually take on a life of their own to commit crimes, it seems that authorities are targeting the penis. Recently in Bangladesh, a village council beat a man and forced him to tie a brick to his penis and walk around in front of 200 people after they found out ...
1.5 million women can’t be right. The Supreme Court Justices ruled for Walmart today in a case brought by women who were allegedly denied promotion and equal pay on the basis of gender. You can look at this decision in two different ways, but either way is disappointing. For one thing, this was the largest discrimination ...
It’s one thing to agree with the exchange of sex for money and quite another to propose it should be legal for women to be sex slaves. Salwa al Mutairi, a female Kuwaiti politician, has said that men should use women as sex slaves. But there’s more. She adds that prisoners from war-torn countries would ...
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...
