Anti-Gay Equals Anti-Woman?

Do you ever wonder why some fundamentalist religions - and the political far right in general - spend so much time and energy obsessing about gay people and "homosexual behavior"? Recently, for example, obscene ...

The female MCs leading the way

A new breed of female MCs is revitalising hip-hop, bucking the genre's long history of male chauvinism Robert Collins Despite the best efforts of Eminem, Jay-Z and Kanye West, for the casual music fan, rap has ...

French say 'Yes, we can!' to ending racism

Inspired by Barack Obama, the French first lady and other leading figures say it's high time for France to stamp out racism and shake up a white political and social elite that smacks of colonial times.

Mainstream Misogyny

Echidne of the Snakes posted this recent example : This is from a recent O'Reilly Factor : Summary: On The O'Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller stated of Gov.

The vagina dialogues

Sheila Jeffreys: "The right of men to women's bodies for sexual use has not gone but remains an assumption heterosexual relationships." Photo: Drew Ryan I T WAS in the early 1990s, when the British feminist ...

Fort Greene: Talk about an inside job

Police arrested an employee of a Flatbush Avenue department store for scamming the chain store out of thousands of dollars from Oct.

Julie Bindel meets Sheila Jeffreys, author of The Industrial Vagina

'Marriage is a form of prostitution' The feminist author Sheila Jeffreys has never shied away from controversy.

Critics: Toronto Life feature "puts a whole religious community on trial"

Toronto Life 's cover story on the murder of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez is "Islamophobic," "racist," "sensationalistic" and "ignores the greater issue of violence against women," according to panellists who spoke ...

Can't have a bunch of fags queering the deal

How, one asks, wiping a drip of spittle from lips slackened in disbelief, do American voters simultaneously elect a black dude president and ban gay marriage in a single swipe of the always-reliable electronic ...

This Misogyny (From Me) Has To Stop

Submitted by Crizz on 11/10/2008 - 13:31 Because of my "Changeling" review : "I have never in my life read an article in a major newspaper where I was actually bothered enough to sit down and address it.A I'm ...