Tag results for: sexism
The suggestion that brain-dead women should be used as surrogates is a damaging indication that women’s bodies are still seen as vessels for human...
In the world of celebrity, using a surrogate is nothing new. Both Kim and Khloe Kardashian relied on one after the birth of their first children, and Sex...
If Blake Lively is “too old” to play her It Ends With Us character, why is her male co-star not getting the same scrutiny?
Ryle is supposed to be 30 years old, and yet Baldoni is 39 years old. So is the age of a man that irrelevant when it comes to...
Misogyny influencers are radicalising boys and young men online, and yet solutions are invisible in the discourse
You wouldn’t have been able to turn on the news or open social media over the last two weeks without seeing a particularly infamous Misogyny Influencer. I created this...
‘Red-pill’ misogyny is thriving – here’s how Muslim women are challenging it in their communities
Sabrine* is sitting in her ten-year-old brother’s room one night, playing Xbox, when he asks her if she knows who Andrew Tate is.“I heard other boys at school...
Cate Blanchett criticises ‘patriarchal pyramid’ in Critics Choice acceptance speech
Cate Blanchett has hit out at the patriarchy in the most awesome and public way during her acceptance speech for Best Actress at the Critics Choice Awards.The actress...
The cross-examinations in the Benjamin Mendy trial remind me why I never reported my own rape
When I eventually came around, my body initiated an escape plan before the word ‘rape’ even crossed my mind. I grabbed his jumper, pulled it over my dishevelled...
