In the past couple years, African women athletes have been swarmed with question marks surrounding their gender. Caster Semenya was tested to determine if she was really a man after winning the 800 metre race at the 2009 World Championships. Semenya’s talent triumphed over questions of gender and she got to keep her gold medal, ...
Happy International Women’s Day! As we move forward into the wonderful future before us, take some time to remember the women who helped us get where we are today. (History is never entirely accurate. How many errors can you spot?) Contact the author here: editors@morningquickie.com
Apparently men will not do anything in a skirt. When shown sexual stimuli men will only become aroused when the porn corresponds to their own sexual preferences. Women are a little more loosey-goosey. We will become aroused when shown most sex acts, even when the partners are not human. That’s right, we like a little ...
Last week I put the love of my life on a plane to half way around the world and I have no idea when I will see him again. It breaks my heart but I don’t have a choice. He just got a job there, and I have a job here. For the time being, ...
Generally when a woman in a crowded subway car is pinched, fondled or rubbed against she moves away as quickly as possible and doesn’t make a scene. Perhaps it was a mobile phone sticking out of his bag… One commuter refused to take it any more and called out her harasser, much to his embarrassment ...
The history of language teaches us a lot about how people saw the world, and it also tells us a little about how we see it today. Vagina comes from vaginate, which means a sheath (as in a place to hold a long, hard sword). The Latin word replaced the Anglo-Saxon cunt, which managed to encompass ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
