Women riders risk their lives to reach stranded horses and lead them home.
Note, that the men have already tried a mechanised approach, attempting to remove the 200 horses by boat and failing! Eighteen of the horses have already lost their lives to this flood. The women...
View ArticleThe Power of Cherokee Women
In February of 1757, the great Cherokee leader Attakullakulla came to South Carolina to negotiate trade agreements with the governor and was shocked to find that no white women were present. “Since...
View ArticleIs porn sex ?
Who else thinks that porn is not sex but the avoidance of sex? What you do when you want what sex gets you; a baby, a woman, a sexual identity you want to go public with, while finding the actual...
View ArticleFor Emmelines Birthday
Women’s Sunday by zeph On Women’s Sunday, seven processions began from various points in London and marched to Hyde Park to hear speeches given by the Pankhurst’s and other suffragettes. More than...
View ArticleRemembering the war on women.
Most of the women I have known have died as casualties of war, the same long unending war that their grandmothers died in. True, one or two have gone naturally of side issues, or have had the privilege...
View ArticleBille Jean King
This programme is more about second wave feminism than it is about tennis. I was watching in the UK when Billie Jean won this iconic match against a man who said no woman could beat a man like him....
View ArticleThey spray our woods and wildflower verges
Did you know that councils in the UK cut and spray our hedgerows twice a year? They have just recently sprayed. Have you noticed the change in the quality of green in our hedges or the strange scent...
View ArticleDebunking desirability
I was thinking today that all this stuff we do to please men, because none of us would think up things like wearing crippling shoes on our own, is about being desirable. I think we need to ask young...
View ArticleOfficial statistics suggest that 97,000 people are raped a year in the UK;...
“Official statistics suggest that 97,000 people are raped a year, yet on average only 15,670 become recorded crimes and, in 2012-13, there were just 2,333 convictions. A CPS review last year found...
View ArticleAn article by Soraya Chemaly that is well worth reading
“Anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday studied more than 90 human societies and divided them into rape prone and rape free. She found that rape is rare in 45 out of 95, and common in only 17. Rape free...
View ArticleIs marriage really what we want for our daughters?
I heard an interesting aside yesterday while watching the BBC news coverage of the Oscar Pitorius case: every eight hours in South Africa a woman is killed by her husband or partner. In the UK it is...
View ArticleChanging from matriarchy to patriarchy
This example of the remains of a matriarchal society, shows clearly that marriage and therefore knowledge of fatherhood, are the roots of patriarchy. In this society parts of the old matriarchal system...
View ArticleLiterature: The Punter and The Prince
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” Jane Yolen, I was...
View ArticleThe Cinderella Law
Following hot on the heels of the criminalization of smoking in cars when children are present; we have another law that will enable men and their state to gain custody of our children. These laws are...
View ArticleBonobos and humans share a piece of DNA that may be connected with empathy
Bonobos and humans share a piece of DNA that chimps do not have. This piece of DNA may be connected with an ability to feel empathy.
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