7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1146+ words) Jeff Bezos Hey fellow feminists! Hope you're looking forward to your historic space flight!Katy Perry So much! But when are you going to teach us how to work all the buttons?Jeff Bezos Oh, I shouldn't Jeff Bezos Hey fellow feminists! Hope you're looking forward to your historic space flight! Katy Perry So much! But when are you going to teach us how to work all the buttons? Jeff Bezos Oh, I shouldn't worry your pretty little heads about that. Amanda Nguyen Just to remind you all that I'm a bioastrophysicist. Aisha Bowe I'm literally a rocket scientist. " Blue Origin launch: in space, we could all hear Katy Perry scream Katy Perry But you both also have amazing hair. Jeff Bezos Kerianne, you're the filmmaker. So remember to film! Really looking forward to seeing Lauren defy gravity! Jeff Bezos…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago (590+ words) My brother. Five researchers from various news programmes. One news anchor. Two mates. The man who came and mended my fence. And, at first, I thought this was a question for women, about women. After all, it's a woman doing it. So it must be a woman thing. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised: asking women about Bonnie Blue is the wrong question, to the wrong people. The telescope is the wrong way round. The real question is: what do men think about the 1,057 men having sex with Bonnie Blue? What about the men? Because Bonnie Blue isn't "a women's issue. Not really. Statistically, Blue is the smallest demographic involved in this event. One person doing something is just" one person doing something. Besides, we are being disingenuous when we ask, "Why is Bonnie Blue…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (529+ words) The UK's largest feminist conference, attended by victims of male violence, has come under attack from trans activists. A group of masked transgender campaigners filmed themselves smashing the glass frontage of the Brighton Centre before the three-day event was due to begin on Friday. The twice-yearly conference, hosted by the feminist organisation FiLiA, is aimed at defending women's rights and "amplifying" the voices of women who face challenge sex-based injustices. But a group who call themselves "Bash Back" and use the X handle "@TransBashBack" have attacked the conference for hosting what it refers to as "hate groups". " JK Rowling: Emma Watson is ignorant of her own ignorance Further pictures later emerged on social media showing the group had daubed the venue with graffiti with the slogan "feminism is the refusal to define a woman" and "Bash Back". The group also…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago (569+ words) Stacey and Joe Swash are both high-profile showbiz adults, but only one of them is finding time for fishing trips with the lads "That girl is a star," Pete and I said to each other, like we were showbiz experts, making an official statement to a waiting crowd. "A girl that cheerful will go far." "Is it time for Stacey & Joe?" Pete asks, every Tuesday at 8pm, as we sit on the sofa with our tea. Solomon is our televisual vitamin D, and Stacey & Joe is what we watch when we need to feel that the world is, ultimately, benign. Or" it was. The unfortunate thing about being a fun-killing hardcore feminist is you see too much. Once you've donned what I think of as the Spectacles of de Beauvoir, everything comes into focus. Too much focus. It started when Joe…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago (550+ words) What's the most radical act of feminism?" I recently asked ChatGPT. It thought for a split second, then presented me with a list of noble acts of feminism waged by women throughout history: suffragists who campaigned for the right to vote, civil rights leaders who fought for access to education, and, more recently, women who protested the rollback of reproductive rights in the US and elsewhere. All true, but not quite what I was hoping for. "What about using AI?" I countered. "That's a fascinating angle," it conceded. "To use AI critically and creatively isn't just tech adoption, it's a radical feminist act of reclaiming the tools that will shape tomorrow." " Can ChatGPT get you fit? Our expert put it to the test Perhaps the simplest way to think about the repercussions of this gen-AI gender gap is to imagine…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago (788+ words) Sir Keir Starmer's pick to lead the equality watchdog defended women who were targeted for their gender critical views and spoke at an event championing women's rights. Mary-Ann Stephenson has been named as ministers' preferred candidate to lead the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) when Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the current chair, finishes her term in November. Stephenson, who is director of the Women's Budget Group, has worked in equality and human rights issues for three decades and holds a PhD in equality law. Women's rights campaigners described her as an "inspired choice" but Pride in Labour, a grassroots LGBT group, said it was "alarmed" at the appointment "given that Stephenson had previously aligned herself with gender-critical ideologies". Stephenson's position on gender issues will draw attention as the EHRC is responsible for drawing up guidance on how equality law…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago (861+ words) Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte is a savage " and soul-sapping " depiction of the lives of a terminally online generation Incels, sexism and shame: dating in the digital age In late 2019, the American author Tony Tulathimutte achieved a rare kind of internet fame when his short story The Feminist went viral. The model for this sort of success is Cat Person, Kristen Roupenian's account of a repugnant date and, in many ways, The Feminist feels like a morbid outgrowth of its themes " the trials of miscommunication between the sexes, as well as a preemptive strike on some of the assumptions of identity politics. The Feminist of the title is a "narrowed-shouldered" champion of women who can't understand why his vocal allyship " which includes owning a READ MORE WOMEN tote bag " doesn't yield the rewards he believes he deserves. Craig proclaims on his…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago (424+ words) Stickers produced by a Scottish LGBT charity featuring cartoon characters holding transgender flags, love hearts and a placard with the words "Queer Joy" have been condemned by a leading feminist group for targeting children. The brightly coloured packs come with pin badges and the Equality Network, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights charity, said sales would "fund crucial campaign work" and those buying it would "help Equality Network fighting for LGBTI+ rights in Scotland". Trina Budge, director of For Women Scotland " the group whose Supreme Court case determined that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law " said the pack on sale was "propaganda" that was "grooming" children. Budge said: "It's very juvenile " they are colourful cartoons. It's certainly not aimed at adults. It is propaganda, it's clearly aimed at children and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago (642+ words) Angela Merkel has been attending the Bayreuth opera festival religiously for the best part of three decades. In that time she has seen almost every imaginable caprice of stagecraft, from animatronic crocodiles and augmented-reality glasses to a naked 82-year-old earth goddess. This year, however, the former German chancellor encountered something she had probably never expected to witness on an opera stage: herself. Die Meistersinger von N'rnberg, the spectacular centrepiece of the current festival, has divided critical opinion by trading heavily on gags and lightness of touch " two things not often associated with the work of Richard Wagner. One of the longest operas in the classical canon, at almost four and half hours excluding the intervals, it is also Wagner's only comedy and his only composition with a well-defined historical setting. That is precisely the question that has haunted this production…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago (184+ words) Thirty-five years ago, the feminist writer Carol J Adams had men choking on their hot dogs when she published The Sexual Politics of Meat. In it, she theorised that the objectification of tasty animals and sexy women was the same. Adams argued this was the "patriarchy's" fault " for drooling over both as collections of devourable body parts instead of whole, respected beings. Does any of this matter? After all, little girls and boys love gender stereotypes. Who are we feminist scolds to wag our fingers? Besides, I am no innocent: as a child, all my favourite costumes were always puffy and pink; and in the past three years I have been variously a cop, Marie Antoinette and a nun (and yes, my ankles were visible in all three). There is precisely nothing radical about rehearsing your own victimhood; nothing subversive…...