Preachy Princesses Give Us Words To Live By
September 1, 2010 1 CommentNo one has ever accused Disney of feminism but these adorable videos illustrate exactly what these princesses are teaching our daughters about womanhood.
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Everyone Loves The Darcys
August 31, 2010 No CommentsMoney, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
Pink Seats And Women-Only Train Carriages In Jakarta
August 20, 2010 No CommentsWomen travelling in busy train carriages often have to deal with men taking advantage by purposefully bumping into them. Jakarta, Indonesia, is now introducing women-only train carriages along a busy commuter route to stop this problem. But is this going to work?
Why Rachel Johnson Is Wrong About Blondes
August 20, 2010 No CommentsRachel Johnson wrote in the Evening Standard that blondes have more fun. She spewed a whole column of nastiness about Mariella Frostrup, who recently complained that blondes still have to endure sexism, which is probably true. But Rachel has trivialized the debate, and calls her a “bottle blonde”, and says she thinks “real” blondes have ...
How To Turn Naughty Little Boys Into Men
August 17, 2010 No Comments“If we want more good men in the world, we must start treating boys with less blame and more understanding.” This is the purpose of Raising Boys; to try to understand what makes boys tick, why they are different from girls, and how we can raise them to become good men. It shows the reader ...
Today’s Superheroes Are Wrong Kind Of Man
August 16, 2010 1 CommentEverybody loves superheroes. They save the world, defeat the bad guy, get the girl, and make life better. But did you know that the modern superhero is ruining teenagers’ social skills and grades at school? Prof Sharon Lamb surveyed 674 boys aged 4 to 18 and found that the superheroes of today are having a bad influence. These ...
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Most Men Don’t Cheat And Never Would (Even If She Won’t Find Out!)
July 22, 2010 No CommentsI’m sick and tired of seeing article after article about why men cheat. What about the men who don’t cheat? Where are they hiding? Can we please have a discussion about how men are good honest people? Because most are.
Sexism Is Alive And Well (But Let A Woman Drive And She’ll Run It Over)
July 21, 2010 No CommentsWhere there’s smoke, there’s fire. The only thing worse that a Sunday Driver is a Lady Driver (that is, if you are unwilling to print racial epithets). Many of our prejudices have some basis in fact, which is why I was so interested to read the Daily Mail’s informative investigation into why women are such ...
Feminism Is Not About Hating Men (But There Are Men Worth Hating)
July 19, 2010 1 CommentFeminism has a bad reputation. We are seen as man-haters who want to take over the world. As any good feminist knows, that is only a small subset of the population and it is a false feminism. Feminism is about equality, not superiority, and any woman who hates men is not a feminist. Maybe this ...
The Other Man: The Daily Show, Sexism, And Its Decline
June 26, 2010 No CommentsThe folks over at Jezebel, intrepidly patrolling the rumor mills and airwaves to protect us against the march of sexism, have weighed and measured The Daily Show – and woe to us, they found it lacking. Unfortunately, sexism is only one factor on a long list that will make Jon Stewart’s second decade in the ...