Early Sunday morning, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in an attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Many have speculated about the motivations of the shooter, Omar Mateen,…
Tag: Misogyny
Around 2 a.m. early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen entered Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring over 50 more in the deadliest mass shooting…
A U.S. artist named Spencer Tunick is planning a large-scale art project featuring 100 naked women holding mirrors. “Everything She Says Means Everything,” will take place on July 17, 2016, the week…
The Kardashians — for years they’ve provided North America and beyond with an outlet for our seething hatred of women. The mantra we hear over and over again is that the Kardashians…
Rob Ford is dead. The former Toronto mayor died of cancer this morning, at 46-years-old. According to news reports and social media, we are in mourning, as always, expected to politely and…
It is no great irony that the male gaze is present in full force at the Oscars every year. The theory’s origins lie in feminist film theory, articulated first by Laura…
To call a man a “man’s man” is usually meant as a compliment. To call almost anyone a “girly girl” is at best gentle ribbing, at worst, a dire criticism. If men…
Roosh V., a man widely known as a “pickup artist,” who espouses a particularly extreme version of misogyny (recently advocating for legalized rape), had planned a number of meetups for his followers…
“They both went over the railing,” CTV reported on December 20th, describing the deaths of Robert Giblin, 43, and Precious Charbonneau, 33, days before Christmas. No they didn’t. Giblin first stabbed his…
Creator of the Dilbert comic strip and self-appointed Expert On Things Like Gender Inequality And Dates, Scott Adams, has yet another valuable opinion on Systems of Power That Have Existed For Centuries…
This week, in Literally The Stupidest Thing I have Read About Charlie Sheen In The Past 48 Hours, is the call to “stop slut-shaming” Sheen. Leading the charge on this one is…
Last month, the Journal of Sex Research published “Is Pornography Really About ‘Making Hate to Women?’” a paper claiming to find a positive correlation between pornography consumption and feminist attitudes. In its…
If you haven’t gotten into Azealia Banks’ music yet, you’re missing out. She is a great rapper, is super outspoken, sticks her foot in her mouth sometimes, and isn’t afraid to get…
December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. It is also the anniversary of the day when 14 women were shot and killed at École Polytechnique…
Pay attention, if you’re not already neck-deep in the gender wars of online feminism. TERF is an acronym for “Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist” that its users claim is applied purely descriptively. Critics…