Why rape jokes are killing South Park

Fourteen years after it first started, South Park remains one of the funniest comedy shows in the world. I am a massive fan, I’ve watched every single one all the way back to the start. Some of them are among the most powerful satirical statements of our time, like the way they absolutely nailed Mel [...]

Would you rather be: haggard and old, soaked in semen or a sexy revolutionary artist?

The Guardian has today highlighted a collection of postcards designed to be auctioned of to raise money for the Feminism in London conference which takes place in a few weeks. The conference is organised by the fairly radical London Feminist Network, and is sounding like it could be quite good, featuring workshops on feminist self [...]

Dirty Des: He's got the X-Factor

As one of the SSY’s many resident “manginas” I often feel too ashamed of my gender to discuss such weighty topics as feminism (beside which someone below did it better…and it’s basically women’s work).  However, early this morning while eating a burger and flicking through a weighty broadsheet I came across an editorial which got [...]

Prostitution, the abolition of the victim and post-modernism's defence of the status-quo

I’ve just finished reading a book by the Swedish socialist, anarchist and feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman which she primarily devotes to debunking the arguments used to justify prostitution and the surrogate-mothering industry. Her book was written as a response to the media’s misrepresentation of prostitution as some sort of smart and glamorous career choice for [...]

Anti-masturbation witch wants women to be more like hobbits.

Christine O’Donnell is the Republican candidate for the US Senate in a special election to be held in Delaware in November. She defeated the Republican insider candidate, a guy who’s been in Congress for ages and used to be the state’s governor, with the support of the mass movement for paranoia and fantasy known as [...]

Raoul Moat: Rapist, abuser and control freak.

Sam Stobbart, ex girlfriend of murderer Raoul Moat has shared her story about the abuse she suffered at his hands. In The News of The World’s interview with her, she talks about when he slapped her every other day, when he raped her, stamped on her stomach, punched her in the spine and gave her [...]

She's showing flesh? Consider it target practise.

Think for a moment. Would you help a woman who was being beaten by her boyfriend? Of course you would. Be it passively (Phoning the police) or actively intervening. Would you help is she were wearing a short skirt and heels? What is she were a black woman? You might think “Of course,” Although, unfortunately, [...]

Q. Why do we still need feminism?

A. Because women in Scotland are still paid less than men. A new study marking the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act has found that women earn an average 12% less than their male colleagues. Full-time female workers earned, on average, £113 a week less than men. The gap for part-time workers was even [...]

Horror: people get drunk, some of them are women.

Thanks to the ever reliable Daily Mail, we have learnt of a terrifying new trend sweeping Britain’s young people by storm. Imported from the USA, it’s the latest craze… ditch your pokemon cards, kids, there’s a new cool status symbol in town – pouring booze in your eye. Even as drunken student antics go, it [...]

A bit too easily offended…

While I was writing this article, I tried to think of the things that are generally offensive in 2010. I invite you to ask yourself the same question I did – what would you be offended by? Racism? Sexism? Maybe homophobia? Now imagine you were to see a young lady on the bus discreetly breastfeeding [...]

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