Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation I encountered last time I donated the best part of one hundred pounds to Virgin Trains (that’s for another fume), I decided to give it a go. Not bad. There was a smell, but that also happens ...
If a woman is completely drunk then she is incapable of giving consent to sex, right? Well not according to Emily Yoffe aka Dear Prudence. In her web chats this week she completely dismissed a scenario where a woman stated she had been date raped on the basis that she had gotten very drunk in ...
Rick Santorum, I feel sorry for any daughter of yours! Santorum, a candidate to become the Republican nominee for the presidential race late this year, says that if his daughter conceived a baby through rape he would counsel her against an abortion calling the baby a “gift from God.” If any woman became pregnant following rape ...
Last summer, the Vancouver Police Department started a campaign to try to cut the city’s growing rate of sexual assaults. Three posters with pictures of intoxicated young women were put up in bars and nightclubs around Vancouver with the slogan “Don’t Be That Guy.” The good news is that Deputy Chief Doug LePard announced that ...
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 sexual assault survivor who fought for compensation after her convicted attacker won 7.2 million pounds of lottery money has waived her right to anonymity. Receiving an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to her community, Shirley Woodman spoke about her fight for compensation. After her attack in ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is strength in numbers for the female Mounties who have reported shocking abuse whilst working in the force. Their lawyers are due to submit a class-action lawsuit in the next few days, which would bring all the cases together and mean they will be heard together by the same judge in one set of ...
The Pennsylvania Liquor Authority (PLA) released public service announcements which have sparked a rather meaty debate. They have subsequently been pulled. Were these ads rightly removed or are feminist groups just looking for a fight? When people drink past their limit they are opening themselves up to countless strains of danger. Rape may be at ...
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...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
