30 things that will make you want to kill yourself whether or not you're 30;...
HAY LADIES! Turning thirty? Time to crawl into a hole and die. That is, of course, unless you have a man, a sexy bra, and tons of cash. That’s right! I found this image by googling "fancy lady" Ever...
View ArticleA lesson in how *not* to be an ally
Remember the douche-festival who created the ‘Hot Chicks of Wall Street’ tumblr and video? Well, surprise, surprise! The dude (Steven Greenstreet) who thought that pointing out all the ‘hot chicks’...
View ArticleIt's International Women's Day; are our foremothers rolling over in their...
It’s hard not to heave a big ol’ feminist sigh on International Women’s Day. But, in many ways, I think that’s just fine. International Women’s Day isn’t intended to be a celebration, from my...
View ArticleSafer strolls: A new, progressive way to blame the victim?
You want to talk victim-blaming? Ok. Let’s talk victim blaming. The Toronto Sun published an article on March 11th entitled: “Helping Hookers Stay Safe” which looked at a project called the safer...
View ArticleLiberal feminists realize that feminism is a movement after all. Confusion...
Elizabeth Wurtzel published an article in The Atlantic on June 15th, arguing that women who choose housewifery are ruining feminism for everyone else. She gets close to making some good points about...
View ArticleThe new face of feminism is boobs
I’m sorry but I am so freakin done with Femen. I mean, to be real, I was done with Femen the moment Femen’s boobs were plastered all over the media by horny young Occupy enthusiasts, but this quote...
View ArticleThere is a wrong way to do feminism. And Femen is doing it wrong
I was grateful to have been invited to join a conversation about the future of feminism that looked specifically at the tactics of Ukrainian protest group, FEMEN on Al Jazeera English‘s show The...
View ArticleFemen was founded and is controlled by a man. Exactly zero people are surprised
Femen, aka, CLASSICAL FEMINISM IS DEAD ALSO LOOK AT OUR BOOOOOBS, turns out to have been founded and controlled by a man named Victor Svyatski. Outed by Australian film-maker Kitty Green, she says:...
View ArticleDear Citizen Radio (and the rest of those grandstanding on my back)…
Hi there, I listened to one of your recent shows wherein you reference me and my piece, “The Trouble with Twitter Feminism.” I’m disappointed that you chose to misrepresent my background, my article,...
View ArticleWoman-hating by any other name…
There’s this fun thing we’ve been talking about for months and years and decades now, and despite continued conversations and critiques of this behaviour, it rages on… We call it trashing or tearing...
View ArticleEveryone is an idiot: A brief tirade regarding Robyn Doolittle's 'sexiness'
Robyn Doolittle, the journalist who helped break the Rob Ford crack video story last year, is promoting a new book about Toronto’s grosso mayor. As such, she was featured in Flare magazine recently...
View ArticleOn ‘corporate feminism’ and the appropriation of the women’s movement
On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the...
View ArticleNoah Berlatsky perseveres in his quest to become America’s Next Top Feminist
In what has become a relentless and fanatical obsession with positioning himself as an ally while simultaneously working in direct opposition to the feminist movement, Noah Berlatsky, writer and...
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