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Do-It-Yourself Abortion Leads To Tragic Death

Do-It-Yourself Abortion Leads To Tragic Death

May 23, 2012 No Comments

Britain’s Daily Mail has become internationally notorious, largely because of the pink “sidebar of shame” down the right-hand side of the increasingly apoplectic website — a one-stop shop for celebrity body snarking and general judgement of famous women for being too fat, being too thin, wearing slutty clothes, wearing frumpy clothes, giving birth by elective ...

Ignore Sexism And It Will Go Away

Ignore Sexism And It Will Go Away

May 22, 2012 No Comments

One of Australia’s leading female politicians has suggested that women facing sexual discrimination at work should just ignore it and it will disappear. Isobel Redmond made the comments at a women’s leadership event in Adelaide. These comments seem more suited to a grey-suited politician from the an earlier era, not a liberal Australian political leader. ...

Suing Obama Over Birth Control Rules

Suing Obama Over Birth Control Rules

May 21, 2012 1 Comment

Since Barack Obama has introduced the new healthcare bill, he has faced an onslaught of opposition against the birth control mandate, which obliges most employers to include birth control coverage in company health care packages, regardless of the organization’s stance on the issue. It was an effort by the government to improve health care for ...

Anti-Abortion Protests Hit Parliament Hill

Anti-Abortion Protests Hit Parliament Hill

May 11, 2012 No Comments

Yesterday, anti-abortion protestors gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the annual March for Life. Campaign Life Coalition is demanding the Conservatives take a second look at abortion laws in Canada. Stephen Harper and the Tories have repeatedly stated they will not change any legislation regarding abortion. However, Conservative MP Steven Woodsworth brought a motion ...

Happy International Midwife Day

Happy International Midwife Day

May 4, 2012 No Comments

In honour of May, 4, the day that recognizes how important midwives are worldwide, it is even more important to recognize what happens in countries without midwives or access to reliable healthcare. Tanzania, for example, has a dangerously low number of women’s health care professionals and midwives. Because of this, it is one of the ...

First Female President Of Malawi Puts Women First

First Female President Of Malawi Puts Women First

May 1, 2012 No Comments

There are few women in the world right now who are as inspirational as Joyce Banda, the new President of Malawi. Banda is the survivor of an abusive marriage, a successful business woman, and latterly a top ranking politician. As the Vice President, she became President of Malawi in April by default following the death ...

Lazy Sunday Ali G Feminist Post

Lazy Sunday Ali G Feminist Post

April 29, 2012 No Comments

Ali G interviews Naomi Wolf about feminism!

100,000 Women Genitally Mutilated In Britain

100,000 Women Genitally Mutilated In Britain

April 25, 2012 No Comments

Female genital mutilation surgery (FGM) is still being offered in the UK, despite being illegal. This thought horrifies me. Investigators from the Sunday Times report that doctors have offered to do the procedure on girls as young as ten. They also reportedly video taped a doctor, a dentist and an alternative medical practitioner offering to ...

Arizona Signs Most Restrictive Abortion Law Yet

Arizona Signs Most Restrictive Abortion Law Yet

April 13, 2012 1 Comment

There is an argument that life begins at conception, rather than at viability. But one American politician has decided that life actually begins at a mother’s last period when she’s not even pregnant! Sounds ridiculous, right? But that didn’t stop Arizona governor Jan Brewer from signing a bill into law that says life begins two ...

Forced Sterilization Program Revealed In Uzbekistan

Forced Sterilization Program Revealed In Uzbekistan

April 12, 2012 No Comments

Women are being sterilized without their permission or knowledge in Uzbekistan as the result of a secret government policy to keep statistics for maternal and infant death artificially low. Uzbekistan is a small dictatorship in Central Asia and has recently gained strategic importance to countries involved in the conflict in Afghanistan (including the US) as ...

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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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