The bisexual male: Yet another must-have accessory
I tend to blame my lack of experience with diversity on the fact that I come from Cumbria. For the uninitiated, it’s that weird bit of England that’s north of Manchester and west of Newcastle and not...
View ArticleBigotryphobia: The real social evil
Like most right-thinking people, I want to come from a country where intolerance is tolerated. Live and let others not let live, that’s what I say. If tolerance means anything, it’s allowing others not...
View ArticleEnough of the bride-bashing!
This morning I found myself reading a blog on the Independent about a very ungrateful bride, who mocked a wedding guest for sending her a personal gift rather than money. Or rather, that’s how the blog...
View ArticleTim Lott, the men’s rights movement’s very own Polly Filler
Quick magazine idea: the feminist version of Private Eye. Like the sexist one, only not sexist, and hence far more aware of the misogyny that runs through politics and the media (sexist Private Eye...
View ArticleNew Statesman: Leap Day love: Once every four years, women are allowed to...
You know the trouble with heterosexual relationships? One party desperately wants marriage and babies while the other doesn’t, and the lengths to which the former will go to tie down the latter are...
View ArticleNew Statesman: Ellie Butler murder: Are the female partners of abusive men...
On Tuesday Ben Butler was sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison for the murder of his six-year-old daughter Ellie. It’s a death that is particularly tragic because not only was it predictable,...
View ArticleNew Statesman: In super-rich divorce cases, I find myself cheering for the...
Being female is an expensive business. It’s not just that the lipstick and high heels don’t come for free. Financially you are hobbled from the day you are born. There’s no way of putting an exact...
View ArticleNew Statesman: “I did not want her to become a decrepit old hag.” Why elderly...
“I did not want her to become a decrepit old hag. I loved her too much for that.” Those are the words of 89-year-old Philip Williamson, who last week received a suspended two-year prison sentence for...
View ArticleNew Statesman: HBO’s Divorce is uncomfortable viewing for feminists
In Episode 2 of HBO’s Divorce, Thomas Haden Church’s Robert visits his friend Nick in hospital. Nick has had a heart attack following a violent row with his wife Diane. “Seems like it’s open season on...
View ArticleNew Statesman: Tattooing your name on your partner’s forehead is an act of...
“I do it because he’s paranoid and wants to have me branded.” These are the words of Kourtney Leigh, who has the name of her boyfriend, Ryan Wibberley, tattooed across her forehead. According to...
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