“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...
When is a duck not a duck? Seemingly if it’s a grizzly. If you paid attention to United States “feminist” writing in May and June you may have noticed a wee bit of activity over the use of the...
Welcome to the re-launching of Natalia's column. It will run every other Sunday, and will now be more personal, for we have decreed that it will be so. Forever and ever - or until she gets bored with...
The modern world is filled with scientific innovations that have advanced the quality and longevity of life. There was a time when women who were infertile had two options: adoption or nursing an...
A Fandango email popped up in my inbox today. I’d used the service Saturday afternoon to purchase a ticket for Eclipse, the third film in The Twilight Saga. It asked, “How did you like ?”...
First he came for the Holocaust survivors, and I did not speak because I was not a Holocaust survivor. Then he came for the Jews, and I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then he came for...
Last week in Australia, Julia Gillard became the first female Prime Minister in the country's history. Three or four months out from an election, Gillard went to (now former) Prime Minister Kevin...
About thirty years ago, there was an informal secret society in the city of Cork. Perhaps a loose net of those with a shared interest might be more accurate. This group passed the names of certain...
For a number of years now, the so-called “War on Christmas” has been a favorite meme of the Christian Right in the United States. As the title of Fox commentator John Gibson's book goes,we should...
Today is Mother’s Day and restaurants and florist shops are on overdrive, trying to keep up with the consumer-driven holiday we have created to celebrate motherhood. In advertising, I have seen...