It's Not A Zero Sum Game

   God, how I hate the meme about "having an abortion is a difficult decision that no woman takes lightly". I know it's suppo...

   I just want to make something super clear from the start - this is not a blog post about whether or not Julian Assange is guilty of rape...

I was at the wonderful feminist book group in Bristol last night, and we were discussing this months' book - the biography of Marie Anto...

  A celebrity (much loved and admired by many, among whom this blogger is happy to count herself) opened his trap in front of a journalist...

  Laurie Penny writes persuasively in the New Statesman about the interesting dynamics that lead to young women performing better than young...

  You want a literary catfight? The Guardian will give you a literary catfight! Wait, you don't want a catfight, of any kind really? We...

  A few weeks ago, I gave an email interview for an online piece about women who choose to remain childless. It all ended up on the cutting ...

  If you're not familiar with the Prisoner's Dilemma, here's a nice Wikipedia article about it for you. For the purposes of thi...

  OK, so first off, we live in a feudal society. If this is news to you, then: wakey wakey! Let's anatomize. A feudal society is one on ...

The 100th anniversary of International Women's Day , with it's theme of Progress, has been marked, among oter things, by a flurry of...

  There's been a predictably large volume of online response to a recently published report about attitudes towards rape, in which c...

  I haven't really been following the whole Polanski thing recently, because there are only so many articles I can read about the moral ...

  So this thing has been making the rounds on Facebook, asking women to post the colour of their bra in their status in order to "raise...

  Yo ladies! Listen Up! Did you know that drinking alcohol makes you grow a penis? S'truth. According to Gwent Police, a penis might jus...

  At a departmental update meeting yesterday, our head of operations approvingly commented that we are "ahead of the rest of the region...

  On today's Guardian Science Weekly podcast (around minute 30), the presenters read out loud a number of comments that were left by lis...

  So said Ronan Keating of his friend Stephen Gately, who sadly passed away last week. Doesn't sound like anything special, unless you k...