Jay-Z has vowed to stop calling women bitches and degrading them in his song lyrics after the birth of his baby daughter. In a poem he wrote to the young Blue Ivy he writes: “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped ...
With the Shafia honour killings case ongoing in Canadian courts, it’s important to look at why women take part in abusing, or even killing, other women. Tooba Yahya, accused with her son, Hamed Shafia, and husband, Mohammad Shafia, of the murder of her three teenage daughters and husband’s ex-wife, is becoming a familiar face. Yahya ...
A public inquiry in the UK looking at media ethics has begun to look into sexism in the press. The focus is on sexism in tabloid journalism. There’s no doubt that sex – and sexism – sells papers. From a daily picture of a topless teenager on page three in one British tabloid paper (The ...
Misogynistic hashtag of the day can only be #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf. I first spotted it yesterday, when @VandalLiza tweeted: #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf is currently a hashtag topic. This is disgusting. Have a word with yourselves you ignorant twats. I investigated further, and noticed a tweet from @B_Shantell, another like-minded person: Did I really just see #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf on my timeline? ...
Mordecai Richler has a talent for shovelling trouble. His 1973 collection of essays of the same name contains a heavy shovel full of the author’s renowned criticism of his own country and close-to-the-bone commentary on the Jewish-Canadian experience, along with commentary on culture and the life of a writer. The style is less academic and ...
Ever had the desire to piss in a woman’s mouth? Apparently the urge strikes some men more often than you’d imagine, as female lip-shaped urinals are cropping up all over the place. The latest incident comes from Edmonton in Canada where the owner of a city restaurant is adamant he won’t let go of his ...
Some people just don’t like to be argued with, and this guy is one of them. An aspiring-politician in New Zealand recently told a young woman who questioned his opinions to “get raped.” The president of the “ACT on Campus” youth party, Cameron Browne, lashed out at Tania Lim on Facebook during a heated debate ...
Winning the Nobel Prize would be enough to go to anyone’s head, but VS Naipaul may possibly have an over-inflated sense of his own importance. The author sparked controversy when he declared there was no female writer whom he considers his equal earlier this week. “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph ...
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a novel that sits on a fence between sexism and anti-sexism throughout, but ultimately proves that a woman can accomplish the impossible just as much as any man. The story surrounds Lauren, a young girl who goes from ages 15 to 18 within the novel. The time ...
Hacking is one of the coolest ways to be a vigilante. It’s like you can be a super hero (or an evil genius) as long as you’re smart enough to know what you’re doing. Hacker groups were responsible for taking down websites like Amazon.com and Visa.com when they refused to support Julian Assange. These multi-million ...
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Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
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Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
