As the debate around transgender biological males in women’s sports comes to a head, you’d imagine that a group like Labour Women would be on the side of – well, biological women. But alas, that would make too much sense. Tweeting from their official account last night, the group reposted a Journal.ie article advocating for […]
When the National Women’s Council of Ireland threw a feminist event over the weekend, with the lineup of high profile groups and individuals involved, you’d assume we were all in for a barnstormer. I mean, how could the event not draw a big crowd? The NWCI themselves say it’s been planned since March 2021 – […]
A woman was heckled out of a feminist rally in Dublin because she held a sign which is reported to have said “biology is not bigotry.” The event took place outside the Dáil at the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Women’s Day event, which was widely promoted by various NGOs and political parties. The event […]
In the wake of the senseless and tragic killing of 23-year-old Offaly native Ashling Murphy, there has understandably been a viscerally emotional reaction from people the length and breadth of the country. Naturally, we all want to ensure that something this awful can never happen again, and most people (myself included) agree that new systems […]
For decades, the feminist movement has been synonymous with abortion advocacy. When I reported on the Women’s March in 2017, abortion was pushed by nearly every speaker as fundamental to feminism, and icon Gloria Steinem, then 82-years-old, sat smiling serenely on the dais. Many believe that the sexual revolution and the women’s movement have always been one […]
Recently Naomi Campbell announced she had become a mother to a baby girl at the age of 50. Everybody thought it was something wonderful to celebrate. Previously, Naomi had said she was not overly worried about the ticking biological clock as science had overtaken nature’s limitations. She is of course far from unique if she […]
A young writer explains on Mother’s Day in the US why she became a mother at 25. Harmless enough you might think? On the contrary, it aroused feminist fury on social media. A nerve had been touched. It’s worth asking, why? In her opinion piece for The New York Times, titled, ‘I Became a Mother at 25 and I’m Not […]
Josepha Madigan is on a linguistic crusade. Gendered language is the heresy that needs to be taken down. Where better to begin than with a newspaper with a ‘backward’ title from a part of the country liberal Dublin loves to sneer at? I would suspect The Kerryman newspaper’s readers won’t appreciate the crusading zeal of […]
HerStory, founded in 2016, describes itself as telling “the stories of modern, historic, and mythic women”. On St. Brigid’s Day this year, this movement stuck firm to its commitment to furthering the mythic while denying the historic reality. Using some cruel and grotesque imagery, HerStory “journeyed into the heart of Ireland to help heal the […]
Kellyanne Conway, until recently Donald Trump’s senior counselor, should be a poster girl for ‘lean in’ feminism. She was the woman credited by Donald Trump (misogynist in chief to the feminist movement) as the main mover behind his system-rocking presidential victory in 2016. Not alone was she the first ever woman to successfully run an American […]
Famed author JK Rowling has been attacked – and defended – for saying that ‘people who menstruate’ are women. Responding to an article headlined “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate” MS Rowling said: “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. […]
It is reported that a woman has been jailed for two years for coughing (‘Woman jailed after coughing at officers’, Sunday Telegraph, May 10, 2020). This punishment may seem a trifle harsh, especially when meted out to a woman; however, last April, 34-year-old Stacey Blackham ‘coughed and spat at police officers after threatening to infect […]