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Annoying Dating Stereotypes? There's an app for that.
Are you a guy who wants to date a girl who’s insecure, whiny, manipulative, and demanding, but you’re having trouble making that happen in real life? Are you willing to lie to her and do things you...
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Thrift Store Board Game Review: Mall Madness
This past weekend my boyfriend and I went on a quest to four thrift stores around Burnaby and Surrey in order to find the weirdest/funniest board games and then play them. One of the two we came back...
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Princess/Prince: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
In lieu of your Friday Feminist Funny Film, it’s a Friday Feminist Funny Cartoon. Get the ending to the story at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. -Jarrah The post Princess/Prince: Saturday Morning...
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The Muppets Treads a Fine Line on Women’s Roles
Can I just say I’ve been ridiculously excited about the new Muppet movie for months? The fact that Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie would be writing songs, and all the parody trailers only...
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Fist-of-Cuffs: A response to ‘Toronto, City of Sissies’
This post was originally published at The Scale. Cross-posted with permission. There was a huge response to a recent article in ‘The National Post’ by writer Christie Blatchford regarding the men of...
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New Survey May Say More About Gender Expression than Youth Mental Health
by Ashli Scale Last week Global Montreal posted a news article about a survey conducted by Queen’s University in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada. A total of 26,000...
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Downton Abbey’s Lessons for Ladies
by Roxanna Bennett -Spoiler Alert to end of Season 3- The third season of Downton Abbey is over. We feminist fans shed some tears when Lady Sybil died, cheered when under-butler Thomas Barrow informed...
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My Reality: Interviewing for the Position of Wife
by Lisa Lo Paro “I love your confidence,” he said, “One of the features I like best about you.” Thus I began a text relationship with a guy my friends and I met at a bar. He didn’t seem like the pushy...
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FFFF: Childhood Gender Roles into Adulthood
A new Buzzfeed video shows how ridiculous childhood gender roles are by applying them to adults. It uses humour to ask us to rethink applying gender roles to kids, but also asks us to consider the...
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What’s In a Name?
by Matilda Branson My name is Matilda. In Australia where I’m from, Matilda traditionally means “a bushman’s bundle of possessions carried when travelling” and is linked to the unofficial national...
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Down Beat Aims to Beat Women’s Stigmatized Roles in Filmmaking
by Mary Galloway and Katherine Ramdeen Down Beat is a feature film that focuses on two dynamic female characters who are dedicated to their profession and justice rather than the rules their chief and...
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Gender, Power and Violence in Fandom
Image by Theamat on DeviantART by Amy Imhoff. Original version posted at Shoes and Starships. Re-posted with permission. Like many of you, I have been reading the numerous responses to the Isla Vista...
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Tackling Sexism in Relationships
Photo credit: Granada!!! =oP / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Aleksandra Nasteska Although sexism may be one of the most significant...
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch: Fun to Play and Refreshingly Feminist
by Jessica Critcher It’s officially summer, and for me that means staying indoors to avoid sweat and sunburn. I treated myself to some video games at the Steam Summer Sale, and on a lark I got...
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The Most Powerful Lines in The Giver are Four Words Long
Like a lot of kids in my generation, Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver meant a lot to me growing up. I was about 10 or 11 when I first read the story about Jonas, a young boy who is named to...
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Free-Diving Off the Banks of Normal: A Review of Debbie Taylor’s Herring Girl
Debbie Taylor’s release of Herring Girl takes us where we’re not yet comfortable but dying to go: beyond normal. The novel interweaves lives, past and present, in a saga that will make you scoff at the...
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Was Terry Pratchett a Feminist?
Terry Pratchett is one of the most prolific authors of our age. When he died yesterday (March 12, 2015) he left behind a massive oeuvre: more than 70 books, most of them about the Discworld, a flat...
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FFFF: Feed Your Kids Gender Rolls
Cristen Conger of the awesome podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You advertises a new product to make sure you’re feeding your kids properly based on gender. Gender Rolls: Tastes Like Repression.
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Giving Better Presents to Other People’s Children
It’s winter solstice time, and for my nieces and nephews, that means presents. Unfortunately, most mainstream toy stores are polarized between pink and blue, and the intent seems to be instilling and...
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Why Manspreading is an Important Feminist Issue, Not Just Bad Social Etiquette
It’s no secret that manspreading is a hot topic of late, especially when it comes to feminist discourse. Many list it as one one of the problems to be tackled on the Feminist To-Do List, but it turns...
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