May 23, 2012
Britain’s Daily Mail has become internationally notorious, largely because of the pink “sidebar of shame” down the right-hand side of the increasingly apoplectic website — a one-stop shop for celebrity body snarking and general judgement of famous women for being too fat, being too thin, wearing slutty clothes, wearing frumpy clothes, giving birth by elective ...
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Lucy Lanelly,
motherhood,
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pro-choice,
sex education,
UK,
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women's rights
May 18, 2012
With summer on its way, there will be an onslaught of Hollywood blockbusters created to entice audiences to the theatres. Most of these films rely on the usual stereotypes to carry the story: the new film What to Expect When You’re Expecting is no different. In the movie, men have a great disdain for fatherhood ...
May 14, 2012
Great news for mothers came just in time for Mothers Day this weekend. Mothers and caretakers in the UK who choose to stay home and raise kids will receive a full pension. Those who retire after 2015 will be treated as if they have worked their whole lives. This is a huge step for women ...
Tags: Canada,
children,
government policy,
housewives,
maternity leave,
money,
motherhood,
mothers,
parenting,
paternity leave,
pensions,
SAHM,
stay at home mom,
UK,
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May 1, 2012
After the publication of his fourth and most successful novel The Slap, which was turned into a TV miniseries in Australia and kicked off the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Christos Tsiolkas complained of the poverty of criticism of the sex in his book. I agreed. The novel itself is written in eight parts, telling ...
Tags: Australia,
book review,
Christos Tsiolkas,
coming of age,
discipline,
misogyny,
parenting,
porn,
racism,
sex,
slapping children,
The Slap,
Tuesday book club,
virginity
April 30, 2012
Does a perfect mother exist? According to French feminist Elisabeth Badinter, this creature is a myth. Earlier this month, her book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women was translated into English. Already a best seller in France, the book boldly proclaims that the myth of the modern perfect mother has become ...
Tags: breastfeeding,
children,
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feminism,
maternal instinct,
motherhood myth,
natural motherhood,
parenting,
patriarchy,
perfect mother,
stay at home mom,
The Conflict How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women,
working mother
April 11, 2012
The belief that homophobes and those who commit hate crimes against gays are lashing out against their own homosexual feelings is not new. But a new study has offered valuable evidence to the speculation. The study links feelings of homophobia with repressed same-sex attraction. It also adds new insight by showing the role strict, homophobic parents have ...
Tags: anti-gay,
denial,
denial of same-sex feelings,
family,
hate,
hate crimes,
homophobia,
LGBT,
parenting,
repression,
sexuality,
study
March 20, 2012
Baby gurus give parenting advice that makes parents felt like failures, according to new research. The advice examined included strict routines and used a tone that spoke down to parents giving little flexibility, so that most parents couldn’t get their baby to fit in with the advice given. If the goals put forward are so difficult to ...
March 17, 2012
Like most people, I have been given many pieces of wisdom over the years by my parents. However, three from each of them have stuck in my mind through the years. Perhaps significantly, they differ in their nature. Firstly, my Dad’s. They were: 1. When driving, always have your speed adjusted before turning into a ...
February 13, 2012
In Britain, medical ethics experts are pushing for an inquiry into the ethics of transgendered births and its effects on the child. Apparently, researchers are concerned that if a transgendered female-to-male gives birth, the rights of the parent to reproduce comes at the expense of the child’s interests. This call to “defend” the child’s rights ...
Tags: birth,
children's rights,
fertility,
male mother,
man gives birth,
parenting,
pregnant man,
reproductive ethics,
transgender parents,
transgender rights,
transgendered
February 9, 2012
We often hear about women’s rights and human rights, but what about babies’ rights? No, I’m not talking about “fetus rights” or any of the crap that pro-lifers come out with; I mean the basic rights that babies should be entitled to have once they have been born into the world. The UK-based charity NSPCC ...