Feminist dating app Bumble had the best response to a misogynistic user:...
Bumble has written the best reply to a misogynistic male user. Connor was matched with Ashley on the feminist dating app – which is unique in that when there's a match, women are the only ones...
View ArticleChess: A great year for India, Sochi notwithstanding
It was the year that saw the young king keep his crown and the queen make her last move. Magnus Carlsen retaining the World championship, at the expense of Viswananthan Anand in Sochi, was widely...
View ArticleThe great chess puzzle: Why are boys so much more prominent than girls?
New York: Fourteen of America's top young chess masters came to New York this week for an elite clinic at the Marshall Chess Club. Four of them were girls. For proponents of gender parity in chess,...
View ArticlePolgar hits out at Short
British chess master Nigel Short has made a bad opening gambit by saying women are inferior at the game, says former Hungarian Grandmaster Judit Polgar, who has defeated the Briton eight times to...
View ArticleChess: A great year for India, Sochi notwithstanding
It was the year that saw the young king keep his crown and the queen make her last move. Magnus Carlsen retaining the World championship, at the expense of Viswananthan Anand in Sochi, was widely...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
View ArticleWomen won't be silenced over River Island's 'Anti Nag Gag'
The Twitter storm over the high-street store's misogynistic product reveals the energetic shouting down of women who dare to speak out against sexism...
View ArticleChess: A great year for India, Sochi notwithstanding
It was the year that saw the young king keep his crown and the queen make her last move. Magnus Carlsen retaining the World championship, at the expense of Viswananthan Anand in Sochi, was widely...
View ArticleCan Feminists Be Friends With Misogynists?
Is it possible for a feminist to be friends with men who are misogynistic? Daniel Radcliffe's comments raised a lot of questions, comments and think pieces, one of which asked could you be friends with...
View Article10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses
Since I founded the Everyday Sexism Project, I have been writing about the abuses that women face: from catcalling to violence. With almost comforting regularity, the same criticisms appear...
View ArticleViswanathan Anand will do much better in re-match: Grandmasters
KOLKATA: Viswanathan Anand's incredible triumph in the Candidates meet has surprised chess experts and players across the globe, but most of them believe that the India aced will have a mountain to...
View ArticleCiting neuroscience, a Grandmaster says men are better at chess. Smart move?
Chess master Carissa Yip, who at age 11 became the youngest female ever to defeat a grandmaster, plays a match at the chess club in Billerica, Mass. In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
View ArticleCan Feminists Be Friends With Misogynists?
Is it possible for a feminist to be friends with men who are misogynistic? Daniel Radcliffe's comments raised a lot of questions, comments and think pieces, one of which asked could you be friends with...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
View ArticleChess: A great year for India, Sochi notwithstanding
It was the year that saw the young king keep his crown and the queen make her last move. Magnus Carlsen retaining the World championship, at the expense of Viswananthan Anand in Sochi, was widely...
View ArticleViswanathan Anand will do much better in re-match: Grandmasters
KOLKATA: Viswanathan Anand's incredible triumph in the Candidates meet has surprised chess experts and players across the globe, but most of them believe that the India aced will have a mountain to...
View ArticleThe Toxic, Bullying Troll Culture Has Made Much of the Internet Dangerous;...
Click here for reuse options! A dark cultural shift is underway, being shaped by anonymous trolls across the country. “Don’t feed the trolls,” the saying goes, as if it were really that easy. As a...
View ArticleThe Bravery To Be Vulnerable
An experiment in #100DaysofVulnerability Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you....
View ArticleThe Left's Abandon of Females
Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time. - Jacques...
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