While we celebrate the large and even small triumphs of the women’s rights movement, sometimes we want to see the bigger picture. On a worldwide scale, is life improving for women? The World Bank says yes, but at a painfully slow rate. As it stands right now, “women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 ...
Feminists have a bad rap. And it starts with the word. For some men and even a number of women, it tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth. Though the concept has significantly evolved over time, some people figure it still has something to do with hating men. Consequently, self-proclaimed feminists may suffer ...
Let’s be real: the non-violent “mind yourself and be polite” types have not won anything yet. You have to be willing to lay in the street, ready to die, for that type of thing to work , and most are not willing to risk much. Not even a night in jail. We are nearing the ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe in women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
