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Saudi Women Have Won The Right To Vote

Saudi Women Have Won The Right To Vote

September 26, 2011 No Comments

Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old king gave women the right to vote and to run in municipal elections on Sunday. This is a big step towards equality, although women will have more power in theory rather than in practice. They won’t be able to vote until 2015 and will be barred from next week’s elections. It’s disappointing ...

Saudi Women Fight For The Vote

Saudi Women Fight For The Vote

April 27, 2011 No Comments

In the early 20th century, women fought hard for the right to vote. In 2011, some still are. Suffrage may have been a battle women won in countries like the United States, where the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920 and put a halt to the males-only rule at the polls, but it’s an ongoing ...

Quickie Guide To Feminism (And Why You Probably Are One Even If You Hate The F-Word)

Quickie Guide To Feminism (And Why You Probably Are One Even If You Hate The F-Word)

September 6, 2010 1 Comment

When I explained to a friend of mine that this website is a feminist site he was shocked. He just didn’t believe me. What was he expecting? Anti-man diatribes? Militant lesbians? Kill the patriarchy messages? Feminism has changed and evolved over the years and it’s not what a lot of people expect it to be. ...

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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