I can’t wait to visit www.crankytown.ca, the new website that helps women talk about menstruation. Apparently users can make one-minute films about menstruation. What a great idea. Maybe some day our universal shame will be replace with celebration.
I attended the YWCA Vancouver screening of Miss Representation, a great empowering documentary for women. All I can say is GO WATCH IT NOW! Then call me and we will start a new movement.
New research shows we are born empathetic. It disproves years of backward thinking about human kind and makes us really re-think things. Professor Frans deWaal of Emory University of Atlanta has debunked hundreds of years of research that suggested that humans are nasty and that morality was only a learned (shallow) behaviour. He looked at
Women are taught to be less confident. They are not born this way. Ann Daly, a career coach dedicated to the advancement of women recently noticed that we teach our girls very specific approaches to confidence. We tell them that for girls to reach the top of the class they must be perfect. Absolutely
Adele highlights our obsession with women’s bodies. So after the Grammy’s when Karl Lagerfeld thinks Adele is a little too fat we are reminded that if you are a woman it does not matter how brilliant you are, someone will notice your weight. I do not recall any comments on male opera singers’ physical shapes.
Please listen when civil liberties lawyers speak! Today they are talking again about Bill 30 and our government’s (Safety Minister Vic Toew’s) suggestion that police officers need new laws to help them access your personal information and Internet use. You should be suspicious. As a lawyer I have seen too many erosions of personal
I agree with Paddy McCallum when he says, “Porn is the elephant in the room” as it relates to girls and boys fractured relationships. Kids are consuming vast amounts of extreme pornography and no one wants to talk about it. Mr McCallum, a seasoned teacher said in a recent news article that about 8
SextUp Kids is a documentary must see. Maureen Palmer, the award winning director of SextUp Kids said that three things created the perfect storm for today’s weird teen sexual behaviours. First the hyper sexualisation of the media, second the extreme ease of access to pornography – especially by boys age 10-13 (!) and the
Yeah for Tracy Themes (Sophia Financial) and Sheila Walkington (Canada Money Coaches) both financial planners extraordinaire. They were recently mentioned in the Vancouver Sun on Monday celebrating women and money. Yes women do have different financial needs. Yes we need to be listened to. You can find them and other amazing women one and
Hooray for Laurin Lui the new 21-year-old rookie woman Member of Parliament in Ottawa. And though she is young and inexperienced, she shared a few wise words about discrimination recently in a Globe & Mail article. She said that she has to work harder and know her facts better and be more prepared than