If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in the middle ages again, under the feudal system, well it’s a bit like this: the peasants, the poor people, are treated one way under the law and the land owners another way. For example, if a peasant slaps a noble, that noble is within his rights to dish …
In a noble campaign to “hijack Islam back and show you what Islam is really about”, Muslim organisation MyPeace are attempting to repair the badly battered image their religion has received over the past decade, by airing a commercial promoting Islam at primetime. While a very public jihad between Western forces and extremist terror groups such as al Qaeda, Hezbollah and dozens …
The pill, or the combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), brought about a revolution for women in the 1960s when it was first commericially available. The COCP allowed women to easily, safely and cheaply take control of their reproduction. It was no small deal that women in greater numbers than ever before now felt safer from the risk of getting pregnant …
The world says no to violence against women (well, the civil world does anyway). I certainly do not condone unnecessary violence against anybody, especially not against women. In the past week, two videos have gone viral: both demonstrating violence against women. The first shows Rayan McIntosh, a now former employee of McDonalds, taking to two women with what appears to be a …
Last week, we reported on the Occupy Wall Street protests. Since then, the protests have spread like wildfire, all across the US and around the globe. Today sparked the beginning of the Occupy Melbourne protests. Given that the Occupy Wall Street protests were in reaction to unprecedented unemployment, student and mortgage debt gripping the United States, why would anyone in …