Women are being silenced at an event distinctly held for the health of women. As much as I love men and enjoy sexual encounters with them, I have never quite been able to wrap my head around the idea of a male gynecologist. I personally find that women gynecologists can relate more, understand what it ...
That significant other you are living with may be as different from you as someone from outer space, according to new psychological research. A new study suggests that the personalities of men and women are dramatically different and have been underestimated in other research. The study surveyed 10,000 people using a new form of personality ...
A public inquiry in the UK looking at media ethics has begun to look into sexism in the press. The focus is on sexism in tabloid journalism. There’s no doubt that sex – and sexism – sells papers. From a daily picture of a topless teenager on page three in one British tabloid paper (The ...
Attention ladies everywhere! Dennis Rodman will be holding tryouts for a topless women’s basketball team that he himself will coach. Is it offensive? Charitable? Funny? Whatever it is, it’s not a joke. Topless Basketball is actually happening. The idea started out as a classic story of rivalry: Rodman overheard that another strip club, Rick’s Cabaret, ...
Oh, Saudi Arabia. How you continue to baffle me with the problems you create for yourself around the segregating of the sexes. In 2006 a law was put in place that banned men from working in “female apparel and cosmetic stores.” I understand the basic principle here — women don’t want men around when they ...
Misogynistic hashtag of the day can only be #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf. I first spotted it yesterday, when @VandalLiza tweeted: #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf is currently a hashtag topic. This is disgusting. Have a word with yourselves you ignorant twats. I investigated further, and noticed a tweet from @B_Shantell, another like-minded person: Did I really just see #ItsOnlyOkToHitAGirlIf on my timeline? ...
And then there was the Christmas of ’05, when I decided to make my Christmas cards by hand. All seventy of them. This involved a sprig of pine which I considered to be festive, a can of silver spray nonsense that will outlive the cockroaches in my first apartment, and a fistful of glitter pens. ...
“First of all, ew.” “Do you know anything about computers?” “Could you do me a huge favour?” These are just a couple examples of the Shit Girls Say. The idea behind this popular Twitter feed has been turned into a YouTube video now gone viral. I know, it’s hard to deny. Women do say shit like this ...
Men’s magazines are harmless, right? Zines like Nuts and Loaded are all in good fun. Men don’t really take in what is written in them. Rapists, on the other hand, are condemnable. They think differently than normal men. This is a pretty common dichotomy, but it may be very far off from the truth, according to ...
A recent talking point in the media, which no doubt took up your full attention and had you exercising your critical faculties to their creaking limits throughout last week, was the line-up for the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year Award. Of course, I don’t mean so much that you were wondering why there ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
