I know this comes as a surprise to some but the capitalist-patriarchy hurts men too. It certainly doesn't come as a surprise to feminists; after all, when feminists talk about liberating women, we aren't advocating the mass murder of men. Feminists are advocating the full liberation of women from the...

I have always been a feminist. It is a label I chose for myself as a teenager, back before girl power was invented and when New Kids on the Block were cool. My original feminism was about equality: women were equal to men and all we needed was the laws...

Ukrainian feminists Femen have declared April 4th as International Topless Jihad Day. This is a response to the death-by-stoning threats Femen activist Amina Tyler received for posting two topless pictures online of her self. The threats Tyler has received form a horrific litany of misogynistic violence. They were also obviously...

I have never celebrated Mother's Day, regardless of what country I'm living in. I've always thought it was patronising twaddle invented solely to placate women and pretend that people actually value the work they do. I do know the origins of Mother's Day have been suggested in the possible Christian...

The British Film Institute is currently running a retrospective on the films of Roman Polanksi. He arguably deserves to be recognised as one of the great directors for films such as Rosemary's Baby, Tess and The Pianist, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director...

Our girls are in crisis. I know this because psychotherapist Steve Biddulph is all over the media sharing this piece of information with mothers; well, I'm sure there are fathers interested but these parenting books are always aimed at...

Jimmy Savile was a "predatory, serial sex offender". This phrase, taken from the Giving Victims a Voice report written by the MPS and NSPCC into the investigation into the sexual abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile, is an important one and one that not enough media attention is being...

2012 saw some quite incredible examples of sexist advertising, many of which seem to have been deliberately pitched beyond the control of the Advertising Standards Agency, such as Ann Summers I-Scream tour and Lush's 'performance art on animal testing', or to have been made so intentionally...

This past Halloween, I watched the film Monster House with my children. It is one of the unnecessary DVDs that we own but one that I had not actively watched before. It is a children's film about a haunted house. I expected puerile jokes and unnecessary references to films that...

The demise of feminism is back in the news again. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Katy Perry have both made public statements about how unnecessary feminism is to their personal lives. Suzanne Venker has not only declared feminism dead but claims that there is...

I'm never entirely up-to-date on who, exactly, the official Handmaiden to the Patriarchy is actually meant to be. I'm sure we're supposed to have one; that one woman who gets a bit uppity and therefore deserves our public scorn about their body and their intelligence followed, inevitably, by threats of...

Femen are back in the media once again. This time they are running about Ikea with their breasts bared to protest Ikea's decision to edit out all the images of women in their catalogue for the market in Saudi Arabia. Now, I'm quite offended...

Netmums, the other British parenting website, has undertaken a survey on feminism. In it, I have learned that I am aggressive, undermine motherhood, oppress men and I need to use Botox. Needless to say, this is not my feminism. My feminism is about the liberation of...