Tag: misogyny

"it’s all delivered with a cheeky smile and a knowing wink, to the tune of laughter and whoops from his audience"

If I were born four hundred years ago, I’m pretty certain I would have been burnt at the stake for being a witch. Being told to “shhh” and how “scary” I looked by a man on Mayday morning at Magdalen Bridge reminded me of this fact. I forgot how ‘scary’ a woman with an opinion could be. 

I have a boyfriend. Why do we say it? Because of the time-honoured strange conviction that the female 'no' actually, to all intents and purposes,...

Fiónn McFadden discusses the problem of misogyny among gay men and how it relates to the stereotype of the "gay best friend".

TW: Mentions of sexual violence "Rather than teaching men that to assault is wrong, society teaches women to do all they can to avoid it." Flora Dyson unpacks the phenomenon of internalised misogyny and questions how we can tackle it.

So I say: let women be angry. Let us bark at men in the streets who catcall us, let us foam at the mouths when men tell us to smile more, let us hiss at those who deem our clothes 'too revealing.'

One of the first lessons we are taught as children is that to gain respect, we must first earn it. Yet for women in...

The UK’s approach to sex education is dated and dangerous

They aren’t feminist heroes, but they’re brilliant business women

The O’Mara case is a good example of the role the news media can play, writes Benedict George

Eleanor Birdsall-Smith examines our fascination with 'natural beauty' and its destructive effects