Anytime I took a writing class, we were warned against using one word: nice. It was shot down for being generic, non-descript and incredibly imprecise. It was the word you used when you had no vocabulary. I’d often thought the backlash against “nice” had been a bit overplayed but the book Nice Girls Just Don’t Get ...
Winning the Nobel Prize would be enough to go to anyone’s head, but VS Naipaul may possibly have an over-inflated sense of his own importance. The author sparked controversy when he declared there was no female writer whom he considers his equal earlier this week. “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph ...
A dress code stating that all women must wear skirts in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) starting from the Grand Prix tournaments as of June 1st recently came under fire. Well, June 1st has come, players, sports commentators and feminists alike have protested, and the rule has now been shelved! The new dress code was ...
Outside of being a senator’s daughter, the two things Meghan McCain is most known for are her breasts. She knows her cup runneth over, and frankly, she doesn’t mind. “I wake up every morning with large breasts, and it doesn’t affect me,” she told the New York Times. “But people had a meltdown when I ...
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a novel that sits on a fence between sexism and anti-sexism throughout, but ultimately proves that a woman can accomplish the impossible just as much as any man. The story surrounds Lauren, a young girl who goes from ages 15 to 18 within the novel. The time ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is by no means an anti-feminist novel, it’s just a little grey in areas. Mostly it’s disappointing that JK Rowling lay such wonderful foundations for a well-balanced character base, but in the end, her undoing was in the details. Her female characters are just as likely to be smart ...
The women who commit sexual abuse are terrifying creatures with a hidden agenda. However, a new list of “hot” sex offenders helpfully ranks them according to their level of attractiveness. Why publish such a thing? What makes “hot” an appropriate adjective? Apparently after reading the thunderstorm of angry comments, they realised they needed to clear ...
Hannah Surber is an example of how times are changing and women are making their mark on the academic world–too bad it is still a huge deal that she has a vagina. Graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a BS and an MS completed in only 4 years, Surber is breaking a huge mold. Completing ...
One sign of my incipient ageing is that I have begun to take notice of adverts telling me I could save a huge amount on my car insurance. I’d like to be clear that I certainly don’t like the adverts themselves: these are all psychotically, bluebottle-at-a-window annoying, and may yet be the cause of a ...
Back in 1970, two independent thinkers decided that words were sexier when they weren’t sex specific. These two ladies are none other than Kate Swift and Casey Miller. After editing a sex education manual full of man-isms, they took it upon themselves to take feminism to the books. If women wanted equality, damn it they ...
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ~Francois de La...
Everyone’s always harping on about needing comprehensive sex education, but have you ever looked at the stats of who...
I read in the press this week that the previously popular theory that the male human chromosome was gradually...
Have you ever tried sex education classes for adults? Lots of the up-market sex shops offer educational workshops for...
All women are real. I don’t mean to jump the gun, but there, I said it. I’m just so sick...
Seeing as how “housewife” vanished from just about everyone’s lexicon in 1987, I was surprised to hear there was...
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that there is a big risk for elderly people to get diseases because when...
It’s a strange thing for me to love Charles Bukowsky, renowned hater of women. And yet from the first...
