Sexism
Big Brother bullying: When sexual and physical abuse are seen as entertainment
Big Brother is not exactly a stranger to blazing rows between housemates; in fact, one could be forgiven for thinking that they positively encourage as much bile and hatred as possible between contestants.
By Nat Guest | Arts, Notebook | Friday, 29 June 2012 at 12:00 am
Tomb Raider: Why play up to the Madonna/whore dichotomy?
The gaming industry’s legendarily deft touch has hit the news again this afternoon, with the news that Lara Croft is to gain a bit more of a personality in her upcoming game.
By Tom Mendelsohn | Games, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 5:38 pm
Top of the posts: Fascism in football, sexism on the street and ruffling royalist feathers
The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats.
By Steve Anderson | Notebook | Friday, 1 June 2012 at 5:22 pm
Banter Bigotry: It’s only a joke, love
Banter is a very odd thing. As an activity it provides a handy shelter for bigots to flex their anti PC brigade muscles and to prove to their friends that they fell out of the funny tree and hit every branch on the way down. What it is not alledgedly is subjective. Anyone who questions the banter status quo is immediately deemed humourless. I’ve seen it used to shield people from accusations of racism, homophobia, disablism and sexism and it’s the latter, which as a 45 year old woman, I’ve witnessed most.
By Nicky Clark | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 28 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Why do some men consider the street as a female meat market?
Pronouncements on sexual inequality in the UK are normally met with an eye roll by my generation. As the babies born at the tail end of the Thatcher era in the late eighties and early nineties graduate university and begin to enter the real world, the fight for female social equality is all too often regarded as a fight that their mothers had already won. Inequality is seen as a relic of a past and those who continue to talk about it are merely causing trouble.
By Caroline Mortimer | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 25 May 2012 at 12:53 pm
A bikini is not the same as a niqab
Perusing Facebook recently, I stumbled across a cartoon that could be said to represent the relativist view of women’s rights. The cartoon was of two women, one of whom was dressed in a bikini while the other was wearing a niqab.
By James Bloodworth | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 10:30 am
Blatter, race, and status quo
You see, on one level, what Blatter said can be laughed off as the fumblings of an out-of-touch fool. “Rise above it”, etc. Except you can’t rise above it, and that’s the whole point. Blatter is the top dog.
By Musa Okwonga | Sport | Thursday, 17 November 2011 at 11:34 am
Women at Work: Could accepting progress lead to greater progress?
Over fifty years ago there were serious impediments for women trying to move up the social and economic ladder, and there are plenty of cultural reminders around to remind us.
By Nina Powell | Battle of Ideas | Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 6:00 am
Feminism: why aren’t we talking about it?
When feminism seemed to have reached a stagnant point in modern society, Caitlin Moran has come to preach to the herd. Women have lost their taste for feminism and this book will bring it back with the bonus clarity of what it means to be a woman in the 21st century.
By Nicole Froio | Notebook | Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 6:00 am
Water for Elephants: How Hollywood continues to embarrass its female audience
I generally tend to hate films that are aggressively marketed towards my particular sex. It’s not that I don’t like films about romance and emotions and all that; it’s just that films that have been dreamed up by Hollywood studios with the sole intention of tapping into a female audience are generally terrible films.
By Aoife Moriarty | Film, Notebook | Tuesday, 10 May 2011 at 5:20 pm
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