Step down, Twihards, it’s time for evolution via the Hunger Games revolution. Let The Games begin! I don’t want to upset any Twilight fans, but the series boils down to a drawn out love affair that is not consummated for many moons. Bella and Edward meet in the first book and don’t have sex until…wait for ...
Rebel. The word itself is sexy. So when Maria Raha decided to name her book about rebel women Hellions, it should have been a warning that she did not know what she was doing. The book promises “to give rebel women their due, and celebrate female rebelliousness the way we do its male equivalent.” Seriously, ...
Guy Montag is the hero of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451, but you have to wonder how the novel would have turned out if there was a “Girl Montag.” Bradbury’s vision of a hedonistic and anti-intellectual future, where books are burned to suppress critical thought and any rumblings of rebellion, may be stock full ...
The French are known for revolution and fashion, so there was no doubt the protest against the burqa ban would be good — but this is a glorious fuck you. The Niqabitches donned a niqab, short shorts and high heels to hit the streets of Paris. As they strolled past government offices, with their naked ...
Rebel. The word itself is sexy. So when Maria Raha decided to name her book about rebel women Hellions, it should have been a warning that she did not know what she was doing. The book promises “to give rebel women their due, and celebrate female rebelliousness
Jewish girls who date Arab men are not only naive, easily manipulated, and vulnerable, but consorting with the “enemy”, trouble makers, and bringing ruin on the Jewish Nation. This is according to an interview with a Jewish group that goes out into Israeli communities and hunts down these Jewish girls in an attempt to break ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
