Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
One of the most interesting parts of this story is how the city where this woman is mayor and cities where other women are mayors in Japan have higher birth…
A Japanese medical university lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”
It’s always a meritocracy until a man doesn’t get the job.Instead the system is rigged for mediocrity …Japanese media reports said today (Aug. 2) that the university had since 2011…
Abduction As Romance
Abduction as Romance is a media trope where a man kidnaps or imprisons a woman and she eventually falls in love with him. Abduction as Romance is one of a…
Emily Wilson talks about translating ‘The Odyssey’
Maybe now, after all the media coverage of my work, interviewers might finally start asking cisgender men about how gender impacts their work. It would be about time
Meet the new hotshots of American film-making
Rees nods, “It’s like my dad would say: ‘You have to work twice as hard to get half as far.’ As a woman, you are presumed incompetent until proven otherwise.…
The Athletic Brassiere
Among the most important advances in sports technology, few can compete with the invention of the sports bra. Following the passage of Title IX in 1972, women’s interest in athletics…
Hugh Hefner: Misogyny, Sexual Exploitation and White Male Liberalism
So this fantasyland of “free love” was really about emotional manipulation of women who were financially and emotionally vulnerable. And so it begins. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy King is dead,…
Women Aren’t Nags—We’re Just Fed Up
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
Hugh Hefner is no ‘hero’ – he built an empire on misogyny
We shouldn't let the Playboy founder's death mask the fact that he normalised the sexual objectification of women, argues Claire Heuchan Reading all of the glowing tributes to Hugh Hefner,…
The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky…