Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine if this was how your man propsed to you?! “Yes” certainly wouldn’t be my answer. Amazing what they used to get away with in Hollywood, eh?
I’ll get straight down to the point. Who is responsible for educating who when it comes to issues of oppression, sexism, racism and the like? As Lena Chen of the Chicktionary eloquently writes, I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s actually homophobia. I don’t expect poor people to ...
The Superbowl is almost here, and I couldn’t be more excited. Looking forward to getting rowdy and yelling at the TV also makes it all the more disheartening that Saudi Arabian women still aren’t allowed in sports stadiums. This has been the law for a long time, but we were reminded of the restriction this week. ...
Canada’s controversial honour killing trial has ended with a conviction of murder in the first degree for Montreal’s Shafia family. Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Shafia and their son Hamed were found guilty Sunday of murdering three sisters and the father’s first wife. They were sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years. A recent ...
Apparently it’s not done for women to wear their engagement rings to interviews. Personally I think it’s a good policy for women of a certain age to leave their wedding bands at home, because the assumption will either be that you already have kids or that you’ll get hired and then immediately run off and ...
Golden Globes audience was “shocked” when Meryl Streep dropped the s-bomb on live television Sunday night. She was about to read her acceptance speech, when she realized she had left her reading glasses at her table. The censor button cut in, stirring up a small controversy backstage. A rather condescending Access Hollywood interviewer asked Streep ...
Jay-Z has vowed to stop calling women bitches and degrading them in his song lyrics after the birth of his baby daughter. In a poem he wrote to the young Blue Ivy he writes: “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped ...
Do Vancouver Men Suck? was (unfortunately) one of the first pieces of writing I read for the New Year. Shouting in riled-up disbelief at the computer is a tragic way to start the year, let me tell you. Let’s start with the premise of this piece. The article attempts to “call out” Vancouver men who ...
Rihanna has been receiving a lot of flack for supposedly “simulating masturbation” in her latest music video for the song You Da One. Whilst I don’t find crotch-grabbing the most attractive thing in the world it is amazing the amount of attention it seems to be getting simply because Rihanna is a young woman. Men ...
Nicky Moffat, the highest ranking woman in the British army, makes some good points about ways in which women in the army are institutionally undermined. She also uses distinctly sexist language, of the sort men often use to describe women in male-dominated roles. In a recent interview Moffat stated that she doesn’t “whine” or “play ...
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...
