Given the option of leaving their hometowns or risking radiation poisoning five years ago, families living near the Fukushima radiation disaster are falling apart, facing divorce, suicide, and cancer. The breakdown of Fukushima families comes as Japan faces a dwindling population it continues to struggle to replenish.
It’s a huge dilemma for progressives: on the one hand, it’s terribly patriarchal for a man to pay for a woman’s dinner. On the other hand, the gender pay gap of feminist mythology holds that women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. So isn’t the failure to pay just another contribution to structural sexism?
Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos is set to debate controversial feminist Julie Bindel at the University of Michigan. The event begins at 7pm EST. Yiannopoulos and Bindel were previously arranged to debate at the University of Manchester last year, but were both banned from attending the campus by the college’s student union for reportedly going against the “Safe Space Policy.”
Milo Yiannopoulos attended a joint-talk with American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday, during which he dispelled the gender pay gap myth, declared third-wave feminists were waging war on working-class men, and was protested by a group of the misinformed social justice warriors armed with air-horns. Yiannopoulos also shared his opinion on male feminists.
Feminist blog Femsplain has announced that they will cease publishing new content after running out of funds from their Kickstarter campaign in 2015.
To promote an upcoming debate between “radical feminist” Julie Bindel and “radical anti-feminist” Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Michigan, members of The Michigan Review asked students whether they would rather their child had feminism or cancer.
Thursday during MSNBC/Telemundo’s Democratic town hall, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, was asked if he consider himself “a feminist” and if he understood the struggles people of color had to overcome in government and in
Milo Yiannopoulos attended the University of Minnesota on Wednesday to deliver a joint-talk with American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, during which he declared that third-wave feminists were waging war against working-class men.
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos will address students at the University of Minnesota today in a two-hour event entitled “CALM DOWN!! Restoring Common Sense to Feminism.” The event, hosted by the conservative campus magazine The Minnesota Republic, can be watched live
A large-scale analysis of 29 studies has revealed a “sexuality pay gap” between gay and straight women, with heterosexual earning significantly less that their homosexual counterparts. The revelation comes on the same day the British government announced their plans to
The United Nations is renewing its push to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) from the only community in Latin America known to practice it: the Emberá tribe, native to western Colombia. The centuries-old practice is treated so secretively
Planned Parenthood tweeted a comment about the Democratic debate Thursday night that sums up what they think about men.
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards claimed the GOP has “abandoned” women as she stumped for Hillary Clinton in Nevada.
Indian lawyer Chandan Kumar Singh has attempted to file a lawsuit against the Hindu God Ram over mistreatment of the god’s wife, Sita.
Friday on MSNBC, Tamron Hall and Chris Jansing expressed their shock that some female New Hampshire voters are not enamored with the idea of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being the first woman president. One told MSNBC that Clinton’s “feminism”
Defying their stereotype as methodical, emotionless nerds, data journalists at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) have erupted in anger over a proposed shirt design they’ve accused of being sexist.
An anti-feminist pick up artist, reviled across the political spectrum, has cancelled a series of meetings around the world scheduled for this Saturday claiming he “can no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend”. He had received
Veteran second wave feminist Germaine Greer has been honoured with an “Iconoclast” prize at the Oldie of the Year awards for her insistence that transgendered men are not women. Ms. Greer, 76, has written many times before that men who
A controversial pick up artist has announced a visit to Scotland, prompting a national newspaper to demand a “new law that will criminalise hate speech against women” and an MP to table a motion in Westminster “condemning” the events and calling
Feminist provocateur Camille Paglia says Hillary Clinton’s adoption of a “blame-men-first” brand of feminism that “defines women as perpetual victims” who need protection and salvation from the government could be costly to her campaign.
A group of Twitter feminists have decided that they are offended by the very language they speak, venting their frustration at the Oxford English Dictionary, which appears to be caving to their demands. The bossy group rabidly nagged the dictionary over
Responding to the lack of black Academy Award nominees, actress Julie Delpy said she believes there’s “nothing worse than being a woman” in Hollywood and wishes she were black instead.
A provocative online petition is calling on Emma Watson — the Harry Potter star know for her feminism and pro mass migration liberal activism — to spend a week in a camp with migrants to show they are good for her feminist
More people believe that feminism is irrelevant than call themselves a feminist, a survey has revealed. However, two in three Brits say that more needs to be done for women’s equality in our society, leading to a feminist organisation declaring
The new Wonder Woman movie, with actress Gal Gadot wearing the hero’s bullet-proof wristbands, has comic fans and super hero movie buffs excited, to say the least.
A token female CEO who immediately goes on a disastrous spending spree? Colour me shocked!
On the night of the Oldham West and Royton by-election result I accused the Labour Party of engaging in “dangerous identity politics.” The result of me uttering this sentence on TV was that the political journalists both local and national
Young Disney Channel star Rowan Blanchard opened up about her sexuality over the weekend, publicly revealing in a series of Twitter posts that she identifies as queer.
Feminists called for Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos to be incarcerated for his tweets on live television.
I honestly don’t know why this keeps happening. People are like, obsessed with me or something.
Actress and gender activist Emma Watson is being accused of exploiting the death of her former Harry Potter co-star Alan Rickman to further her feminist agenda.
After the New Years migrant sex attacks, a leading German feminist has said the politically correct “bubble has burst” and Germans should speak out against Islamism. She claimed Cologne police have been covering up Muslim rape for 20 years, and said
I have no intention of launching an attack on Laurie Penny for her New Statesman article. What good would it do? All I want from her, and feminists who share her views, is that they read I write below and
The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be
Yet another dubious report claiming to show widespread sexism in Silicon Valley has been published, and the tech press is characteristically lapping it up. The survey, given the headline-friendly title “The Elephant in the Valley,” is scarcely academic, consisting of a
The Huffington Post has found out that hard way that speaking on behalf of one half of the human population isn’t a simple task. Yesterday, the Huffington Post waded into the row over Twitter’s cataclysmic de-verification of Breitbart Tech editor Milo
Piers Morgan unleashed his full fury (kind of) on Ellen DeGeneres Thursday, calling her a “sexist pig” and a “shameless objectifier of male torsos” after the talk show queen jokingly showed off a shirtless photo of actor Chris Hemsworth at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday night.
In the wake of the wave of organised sexual assaults perpetrated against German women on New Year’s Eve, many commentators have been patiently waiting for the feminist reaction to this grotesque display of male violence. Well, it seems to have arrived, but
Two luminaries from the open source software world, Eric Raymond and Meredith Patterson, discuss the social justice incursion with Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Washington Post’s Emily Heil not only crafted the single most stupid article I have read in years, I actually had to read it three times to believe it. The Washington Post is actually celebrating the “subversive feminism” of two
