HatManJim // A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
HatManJim // A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe in women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
Mack // The UK is currently debating whether it should allow young people to have sex legally at the age of 14 instead of its current 16. The question: does the law do more harm than good?
Mack // It has been claimed that John Phillips, co-founder of the Mamas and Papas singing group, repeatedly raped his daughter throughout his lifetime.
Morning Quickie
Mack // A professor who compared lectures to lap dances has been accused of not respecting women. Critics says he needs to retire, and students are making it a point to avoid the uni until he is forced out.
When most people think of bullying at school, I doubt they think of being forcibly stripped naked while classmates and teachers watch, but this is what happened to 5 girls in Iowa on their third day back this semester. The Des Moines register reported today that 5 girls were strip-searched when they were accused ...
Amazon.com WidgetsCasino Royale is one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and I am reading it for the first time. I have always liked Bond and, although a womaniser and a bit sexist, I could overlook that because of all the exciting, sexy, heroic adventures that he had. A very small part of me wanted to ...
The BBC released two important articles today regarding the lives of teenage girls. The first states that British teenage girls are drinking more than their male counterparts and that alcohol abuse is higher in the UK than among other industrialised nations. The second states that many girls 13- to 17-years-old have been abused with 1/6 ...
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Happy Easter!
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