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Raping Men As A War Tactic

Raping Men As A War Tactic

March 2, 2011 No Comments

Most men who are held prisoner in concentration camps and or as political prisoners are raped and sexually abused, yet they are often ignored. An opinion piece in the New York Times by Lara Stemple looked at male rape and the problems we have because we don’t acknowledge it. The United Nations reported that out ...

Rape As Torture

Rape As Torture

May 5, 2010 1 Comment

Dear Madame X, I don’t understand how rape works. I’ve read reports about soldiers in Africa who are forced, at gun point, to rape women as part of their ethnic cleansing. Afterward many of them say that they didn’t want to. If they really don’t want to, how did they get it up? Also, the ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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