School is often idealized as the great equalizer because the education it provides is meant to allow kids from all socio-economic backgrounds to reach the same goals. Sadly, it often makes the news for being a big machine of conformation. Sam Saurs, a 15-year-old boy from Port Orchard, WA, was just suspended from ...
Dear Madame X, Sometimes I like to wear women’s clothing, but I am not gay. I have had girlfriends before but no one has ever caught me. It’s not a sexual thing, just something I like to do. I usually dress up on Sundays and say I am going to Church. My new girlfriend has ...
James Franco is on the latest issue of Candy. According to their Facebook page, the magazine is “completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.” Some have questioned whether it is appropriate for a non-transvestite actor to don the drag for the cover, but his endorsement of the mag ...
In Afghanistan it is so important that families have at least one boy that they often will disguise a daughter as a son. Reasons for this include better access to education, allowing the “boy” outside the home to work or take more part in community life, and giving some kudos to the family for having ...
England has quite a reputation. The tourist board likes to promote the castles. But the Brits themselves are also interesting. In addition to a love of animals, they also have a reputation for cultivating eccentricity. Put it all together and you get an amazing headline.
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.
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.
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
