If a woman is completely drunk then she is incapable of giving consent to sex, right? Well not according to Emily Yoffe aka Dear Prudence. In her web chats this week she completely dismissed a scenario where a woman stated she had been date raped on the basis that she had gotten very drunk in ...
The Superbowl is almost here, and I couldn’t be more excited. Looking forward to getting rowdy and yelling at the TV also makes it all the more disheartening that Saudi Arabian women still aren’t allowed in sports stadiums. This has been the law for a long time, but we were reminded of the restriction this week. ...
Canada’s controversial honour killing trial has ended with a conviction of murder in the first degree for Montreal’s Shafia family. Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Shafia and their son Hamed were found guilty Sunday of murdering three sisters and the father’s first wife. They were sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years. A recent ...
As feminists, we get it ingrained in us that choice is every person’s (read: woman’s) right. But what if things weren’t as simple as that? Choice is a common rhetoric used by many feminists and social justice activists. The topic ranges from jobs to abortion; sexuality and contraception to marriage; how we look to what ...
Vancouver sex-trade workers and their lawyers brought their case to Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday. They were there to argue the validity of a constitutional change to prostitution laws. Outside the court, other sex-workers and their supporters rallied for the cause. The fight to decriminalize prostitution has been a struggle, but the idea is spreading. ...
Doctors are being told to conceal the sex of the fetus from pregnant women in case they are from cultures who practice female infanticide. An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says that many Asian women in Canada come from cultures where they prefer baby boys, and if these women know the sex of ...
In Maryland, two doctors are now facing murder charges after allegedly providing late-term abortions to five patients. During the 16-month investigation, authorities found that Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley initiated abortions in a New Jersey clinic (owned by Brigham) by giving pregnant women preliminary injections, and they then finished the procedures in Maryland. Women should ...
There have been plenty of amazing women making the news this year in politics, arts, and many other fields and they all deserve a mention. It’s hard to narrow them down, but here is a list of my top ten women of 2011. Enjoy! 1. Samira Ibrahim — Egyptian activist. Ms. Ibrahim was subjected to ...
After suffering abuse, humiliation and abject degradation at the hands of Egypt’s interim military rulers, an Egyptian civilian court has finally ruled an end to virginity tests on female detainees. The practice of making women strip and spread their legs to determine their sexual status has been defended by the Egyptian army. One official said ...
Two ground-breaking bills affecting the position of women have just been passed in Pakistan. The first, The Prevention of Anti-Women Practices (Criminal Law Amendment) Bill 2008, covers a wide-range of issues including women forced and sold into marriage. The second, The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill 2010, attempts to control the availability of acid used ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
