There have been plenty of amazing women making the news this year in politics, arts, and many other fields and they all deserve a mention. It’s hard to narrow them down, but here is a list of my top ten women of 2011. Enjoy! 1. Samira Ibrahim — Egyptian activist. Ms. Ibrahim was subjected to ...
I’ve been driving a lot recently. A lot. We’ve moved to an island for a year, and it’s quite rural, with plenty of wide-open spaces and small roads. I’ve been driving to and from work every day, as well as most evenings and weekends, through lovely scenery, exploring the island, looking for somewhere for us ...
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The only thing worse that a Sunday Driver is a Lady Driver (that is, if you are unwilling to print racial epithets). Many of our prejudices have some basis in fact, which is why I was so interested to read the Daily Mail’s informative investigation into why women are such ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
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...
