Nicky Moffat, the highest ranking woman in the British army, makes some good points about ways in which women in the army are institutionally undermined. She also uses distinctly sexist language, of the sort men often use to describe women in male-dominated roles. In a recent interview Moffat stated that she doesn’t “whine” or “play ...
So the papers have a fair bit in them this week about Australia’s decision to make all combat roles in its military available to women. Obviously this means they’ll be able to do any of the things men do, including getting shot at and blown up right in the middle of things. And so there’s ...
“Everyone else was doing it,” is a common excuse from teenagers, but it’s being used by a man accused of raping his comrade at arms. While she was unconscious he filmed his crime on his phone and she was only aware of what happened when she stumbled across the footage. Keith Eric Calvert was found ...
When women start serving their country as military troops, walls are broken down towards gender equality on a larger scale. By next year, four Afghan twenty-somethings will be their some of their country’s first female military helicopter pilots. Before them, only one woman had been trained for the job. “We are just at the beginning ...
The Australian Gillard Government has plans to allow women to serve alongside men in some of the Defence Forces’ most dangerous positions. Women are currently banned from joining units such as rifle companies, artillery, SAS, navy clearance divers, airfield defence guards and other combat roles. Under the proposed changes, women will be able to serve ...
An American judge thinks that raping lesbians will turn them into heterosexuals. As if! Frankly, the opposite is bound to happen and they will be turned off sex with a penis even more than they were before. Joe Rehyansky was speaking about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ruling about allowing homosexuals to serve in American ...
The British army has started a sexual health campaign urging female soldiers to carry condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STIs. But I have to ask, why should this be the woman’s responsibility alone? It takes two to tango and she’s not going to get pregnant or HIV by herself. Surely a campaign targeting all ...
A female soldier in Britain has won a legal battle for claims of sex and race discrimination that forced her to quit her job. She was a single mother who was unable to find childcare on a few occasions, something seen as unacceptable in the military life. The problem with her situation was that, as she ...
It was with much fanfare that Moira Cameron joined the all male Beefeaters in 2007. But since joining she has been the victim of a campaign of bullying and harassment by her male colleagues, Tower officials admitted yesterday. Two of her coworkers have been suspended and a third is under investigation. A statement from the ...
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...
