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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
