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The Fight Against Forced Ultrasound Is Not Over

The Fight Against Forced Ultrasound Is Not Over

February 24, 2012 No Comments

The bill that would require women to undergo an invasive transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion was pulled after Virginia’s governor withdrew his support. Governor Bob McDonnell faced a wave of criticism over the bill. It was argued that a transvaginal ultrasound, or “state-sponsored rape” as some blogs have named the invasive procedure, is not medically ...

Bridging China’s Gender Gap

Bridging China’s Gender Gap

May 2, 2011 No Comments

What would we do in a world without women? This is usually a philosophical question for apocalyptic novels that take place far into the future, but China is having to face it now. China may be bridging the gender gap that widened after the Chinese government instituted the one-child policy in 1980, but there’s still ...

Zap Away Your Baby Blues

Zap Away Your Baby Blues

May 13, 2010 No Comments

There have been never-ending problems searching for a male birth control (other than condoms or vasectomies). Do women trust the men? Are men comfortable manipulating their testosterone levels? Now it looks like ultrasound waves might the solution to this problem. This method has been proven to work on dogs in Italy and researchers have been tentatively looking into ...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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