Breast cancer is a deadly disease that will be diagnosed in over 200,000 women in the United States this year, according to cancer.org and is expected to kill almost 40,000 American women in 2012. My grandmother is living with breast cancer, and she asks me when the last time was that I...

Not the thongs you’re looking for? Believing and working towards gender equality is a lot of work, and takes a ton of dedication and hope, in my most modest opinion. I know that there are a range of hateful people on the internet who do not like women or are searching only for porn, or...

Some of you may be familiar with The Good Men Project, which is a movement that promotes thoughtful commentary about being a superb man. They have a great website (www.goodmenproject.com), and have over forty thousand followers on twitter (@goodmenproject). What started it all was an excellent...

Yesterday I went to dinner with a really good male friend of mine. He is a vegetarian, and I am an omnivore. I am vegetarian about 85% of the time, but sometimes yours truly needs a bit of non-tofu. We went to a restaurant neither of us has been to before. Having heard great things about it, I...

Female Chauvinist Pigs holds up a mirror to ourselves and asks us to take a hard look what the hell women are doing to themselves. Ariel Levy presents a rigid, but very much valid view of the way women choose to present themselves in society. There are so many great points, such as why there...

A friend of mine let me borrow her DVDs of the TV show called The Killing. I really enjoyed it! It’s a detective show that investigates the murder of Rosie Larsen, a teenager in Seattle, Washington. Side note – it’s actually filmed in Canada, and the outdoor scenes are...

I know not to judge a book by the cover (or title) but I do love the title “Falling into Manholes”. Growing up, Wendy wanted to be a perfect girl, and do all the right things to please her parents. Upon her mother’s death, she became bulimic, binging on cake and running...

Last night’s episode of Californication was disappointing, both for feminism and the downtrodden spirit of the show. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, Hank Moody (David Duchovny) is a writer and has turned his most recent book into a screenplay. In...