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Pink Seats And Women-Only Train Carriages In Jakarta

Pink Seats And Women-Only Train Carriages In Jakarta

August 20, 2010 No Comments

Women travelling in busy train carriages often have to deal with men taking advantage by purposefully bumping into them. Jakarta, Indonesia, is now introducing women-only train carriages along a busy commuter route to stop this problem. But is this going to work?

Feminism To Blame For Rude Men

Feminism To Blame For Rude Men

June 9, 2010 3 Comments

Men are refusing to relinquish their seats on public transit to heavily pregnant women. More than 80% of 1000 women surveyed said that no one offered them a seat, despite the nausea, swollen feet and dizziness that comes with pregnancy. There are several explanations for why this is, but one columnist assures us that feminism ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

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