When you think of the Middle Ages, feminism and gender equality rarely come to mind. Men are kings, knights and lords while women are silent and submissive. The setting of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones is just as sexist: whore houses abound, marriages are arranged at a startlingly young age, and rape is ...
A story of one woman’s life and struggle to find any man willing to treat her as an equal is one of the most unassumingly sexist stories I have ever heard. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston recounts the life and struggle to find marital and overall happiness of protagonist Janie Crawford. ...
The last two days have made one thing crystal clear: making a woman uncomfortable is hilarious! First Jim Carrey posts his creepy, makes-your-skin-crawl video for Emma Stone in which he professes his love for her and makes dramatic eye movements related to what he imagines their sex life would be like. Only thing is that ...
Since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman, and our game from a woman. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? ~ Tupac Shakur
Sometimes when it’s late at night — you’re coming home from a party looking fine and have a little bit too much liquor in your system — bad things can happen. Terrible things that will change your life forever. It can affect your self worth, your future relationships and how you see the world. But ...
It may put a damper on your night of partying, but with high incidents of date-rape, it’s in everyone’s best interest to keep an eagle eye on their martinis. If you’ve ever been paranoid about the date-rape drug, you will be pleased to hear that researchers have discovered a test that reveals whether your drink ...
“There was a girl here. Ayesha is her name. She is 10 years old. Very tiny. The man she married is 50 years old, with a big belly, like so,” a man called Mohammed explained to a National Geographic writer visiting Yemen to write about the plight of child brides. “Like a rat getting married to ...
My attention was drawn this week to an article in the Guardian. This article made the point that, in these days of greater-than-ever freedom and appreciation for female sexuality, male sexuality has become a feared and mistrusted aspect of modern life. From current misgivings on the sexualization of children — in which girls are the ...
Porn is not just adults having sex in front of a camera. It’s not quite that simple, or innocent. At least that’s what UK Feminista is hoping to show with the tenth anniversary screening of Hardcore today. However, the porn documentary has sparked a controversy in the feminist community. The drama over the film being ...
There’s a line where self-defense ends and the attacked becomes the attacker. Olga Zajac, a 28-year-old Russian salon owner not only crossed that line. She trampled all over it, slashed it and threw it out like a dirty trash bag. When 32-year-old Viktor Jasinski tried to rob her salon, being learned in the art of ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
