When a video of former Labour minister, Lord Sewel, doing lines of coke with “prostitutes” came out, media everywhere responded with both shock and mockery, but for all the wrong reasons. In…
The Guardian has come out against Amnesty International’s draft policy proposal supporting the decriminalization of pimps, johns, and brothel owners. Since when did unregulated markets guarantee human rights? There is nothing intrinsically…
A year and a half ago I wrote that the internet was magic. “I can’t stand the luddites who romanticize the days where people talked. Face to face. Or called each other,”…
Warning: Contains minor spoilers Amy has it all. She’s a “boss bitch” with a sick apartment and a job as a writer in NYC. Her character, also called Amy, sleeps with a…
The Telegraph publishes a misleading report on the petition against Amnesty International’s proposed alliance with pimps and johns. While celebrities have signed on to the petition, it was created primarily by feminist,…
It’s easy to hate on Jezebel, I know. It’s also easy to hate on Feministing and xoJane and, really, any website covering feminist issues, ourselves included. They’re liberals, we’re “whorephobic,” they’re capitalists,…
This just in: Violent Shia LaBeouf threatens violence. On Friday, the actor, who was in Germany to film a horror movie, and his girlfriend were seen screaming at each other outside a…
The human rights organization, Amnesty International, has quietly been trying to pass a policy proposal calling for the decriminalization of the sex industry. It was only this month they announced their intentions but,…
Filmed street harassment and Pick Up Artist culture infects the streets of downtown Ottawa. New study confirms that gamers who harass women online are less skilled relative to their peers; that is…
The first time I heard Amy Winehouse back in 2007 I was hooked. Back to Black was so perfect I could hardly believe it existed. I’d been listening to old soul music…
Google has insisted time and again that it has a “zero tolerance policy” on child pornography. In 2013, Google’s director of communications stated: When we discover child abuse imagery [child porn] or…
I was so upset after reading Jason Cherkis’ powerful story on the Runaways, the girl-band that made women like Lita Ford and Joan Jett into rock legends, I surprised even myself. You…
“Marry me or I’ll make your rape video public.” This threat was sent to an Australian University student by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately, her story is not unique. In an increasing number…
Back in December, a student at Dalhousie University came forward with a complaint about comments posted on a Facebook page called Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen. The group was made up of…