The article is about a man who learned how to hit his lover during sex (at her request). It’s a fascinating topic the deals with the politics of power, acts of violence and how he learned how to balance all of that with her boundaries. What a shame, then, that these insights were simply tacked ...
The United Nations has set up a body to promote the issues of women around the world. The U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women will not be known as Unegeew (ew!) but instead as UN Women, despite the fact that it is rather unwomanly. The entity will have a budget of ...
Now men have a reason to pick up their dirty laundry. The more housework the man does, the less likely it is that he will be served with divorce papers. This is not a small issue when you consider the dozens of hours a week devoted to keeping a house tidy and the hundreds of ...
My partner is impotent. The medication he is on makes his penis small and tucked away, as if he is constantly cold. With the nicest attention it will peak its head out before limply pulling back. Sex is entirely out of the question. But this article is not about it. It is about me.
Twelve years ago this month, one of the world’s grand experiments ended in heartbreaking failure. Even today, anyone studying gender inequality would do well to look at the vast gap in women’s earning potential and relative ability to succeed that has been created in the wake of this phenomenon’s disappearance. I’m talking, of course, about ...
The science experiment has concluded and half-naked women everywhere are doing their happy dance of smugness. Seismic activity was pretty normal on April 26, 2010, despite Boobquake. But what did it really prove?
When Viv Groskop’s little angel said “Girls are boring,” she took matters into her own hands, and forced her three year old onto a historical walking tour. I can’t think of a better way to prove girls are exciting than a historical, walking tour… for a three year old. Is it just me, or is ...
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...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
