Women ordered to stop praying in park Two Muslim women in Dublin have alleged that they were told by a warden to stop praying in their local park. The warden apparently told the women to stop because ‘they could break their backs and sue the park’. The two women are seeking legal advice. Woman gang-raped…
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A few days ago Bryan Goldberg blogged about his hopes and dreams for new site Bustle.com which he touted as a brand new site for women’s interest that ‘puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips.’ When launching the site, Goldberg made some huge calls including, ‘women’s publishers have completely lost sight of which decade…
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Hugo Schwyzer has epic twitter meltdown, admits to being attention-hungry fraud Notorious male feminist Hugo Schwyzer called himself a hypocrite and a fraud in a twitter tirade this week. He admitted to being unqualified to teach feminism, and revealed he had an affair with a 23-year-old woman at the same time as condemning age disparate…
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ag·gres·sion (-grshn) n. 1. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion. 2. The practice or habit of launching attacks. 3. Hostile or destructive behaviour or actions. 4. Probably gendered, but the jury’s out. * ‘Throughout my life, aggression has never been something I have deemed acceptable. As a child I was extremely quiet and timid….
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The 1960s is associated with many things; flower power, great music, Woodstock and free love. There was also a darker side which is equally well documented, the Vietnam War, political movements and the racial and social tensions of this period. Many of these elements were explored in the Australian movie The Sapphires, based on…
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Don’t let the subtle references to rape and slut-shaming, and the less subtle, all-out objectification of women in Robin Thicke’s viral floor filler, Blurred Lines, cloud your judgment. Throw feminist Ryan Gosling under the bed like Woody in Toy Story 1, because Robin Thicke is our new feminist ally! He said so himself. In…
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In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, an anti-Hillary Clinton group called The Hillary Project has featured on its website a game in which people are encouraged to deliver a virtual slap across the face to an animated image of Hillary Clinton. Alongside another game called Dancing Hillary, SlapHillary allows the user to…
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Professional networking site LinkedIn has been forced to reverse its decision to block images of female engineers posted by engineering company TopTal. TopTal CEO Taso Du Val wrote in a blog post that: ‘Today was a disappointing day at Toptal. We saw extreme sexism within the tech community, from an industry leader and advertising…
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Elaine Riddick’s uterus was removed without her consent when she was 14 years old. Doctors sterilised Riddick following the caesarean birth of her son, who was conceived of rape. It was 1968 and the decision to sterilise was authorised by the North Carolina Eugenics Board. Riddick’s story is just one of an estimated 7,600…
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So, do you want to hear the good news or the bad news? Well, the good news is that UK feminist campaigner and journalist, Caroline Criado-Perez was successful in her push for the inclusion of women (other than the Queen) on British bank notes, with Jane Austen to feature on the £10 note from…
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Swinburne Uni offers paid leave to victims of domestic violence The Government has congratulated Swinburne University and the National Tertiary Education Union for their recent agreement which gives staff suffering from domestic violence five extra days of leave a year. As reported in The Australian newspaper, the five days’ paid leave could be used to…
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Bindi Irwin has joined the birth control debate, saying she is upset that young girls in poor countries are having children they simply cannot feed. The daughter of the late Steve Iriwn turns 15 today. In an interview with News Corp, Ms Irwin said she wanted to use her time in the media spotlight…
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A young Norwegian woman, Marte Deborah Dalelv, who was sentenced to 16 months jail after reporting an alleged rape at a business meeting in Dubai, has been pardoned overnight. Ms Dalelv, 24, reported the alleged rape to police on March 6 only to be charged with sex outside of marriage, consumption of alcohol, and…
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Male employees without children or relationships have been identified as the most desirable employees in Australia. In a survey of 500 Australian employers, Kronos research revealed that close to 40 per cent of employers believe men are better employees than women, while only about one in five surveyed favoured female workers over their male…
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