Rinsing

I raised a lot of questions about a particular law in the last post, as an example of how the law does treat women as inferior to men. The law relating to rape assumes that everything apart from penis-vagina penetration is ‘unnatural’. It assumes that marriage is blanket consent to sexual intercourse. It assumes that consent [...]

Dyeing

In the last post, I wrote of recognition. Since I’m a lawyer, it isn’t surprising that the form of recognition I seek to address is legal recognition – does the law treat women as individuals, no less worthy than men, no less entitled to the protection and resources of the State? The answer, sadly, is [...]

Weaving

So, what’s common? What is it that weaves feminism together? There are many answers, but the one I like best is that it is a concern for women and a desire to see them recognised as complete human beings.
Perhaps because of feminism’s roots in the movement for women’s rights, the last part of that statement [...]

Spinning*

I wrote this a while ago, and now I have to write something similar. In different circumstances, of course: those of you who’ve seen the commentspace on the previous post already know why.
You see, there’s a comment there that appears to be inspired by a fear of laws that the writer believes are biased towards [...]

Victim Arrested

The last line of this makes no sense to me.
It’s absolutely wonderful that women are beating up their harassers, even if the reporter says “he allegedly raped…on the pretext of giving job to her husband” (what is a rape on a pretext?). And even if the reporter is at pains to make himself clear that [...]