Last week, Louise Perry’s new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, hit the shelves. In an article for the New Statesman, Perry sets out her central thesis: “Feminists must abandon their delusions about the sexual revolution: Men and women are not the same, and it is usually women who suffer when we pretend otherwise”.

A recent article in the Herald Sun (“Schools opt for gender neutral toilets, language”) has praised the renewed efforts of the Victorian government to erase male/female difference in schools.

Grace Tame’s refusal to smile in her recent public appearance with Scott Morrison has many in Australia debating the question of whether women should be obliged to hide the way they feel by smiling, simply to make the men around them feel comfortable. In her blog, Caitlin Holloway summarises the case for the negative:

The Ad Standards Community Panel recently made a determination about a complaint regarding an advertisement for Libra Period Proof Hipster Briefs. The sponsored Facebook advertisement contained the caption:

Margaret Atwood, prize-winning author of the Handmaid’s Tale, has received backlash online accusing her of being transphobic after she shared an article on Twitter titled ‘Why can’t we say “woman” anymore?’.

A new international study of more than 577,000 school-aged children from 42 European and North American countries, has looked at the impact of prolonged screen time and insufficient physical activity on the mental wellbeing of adolescents.

It took just 24 hours for a billboard displaying the dictionary definition of a woman to be taken down from the CBD in Wellington because of the number of complaints the media company received in relation to it. The company claims that the billboard, commissioned by New Zealand advocacy group Speak Up for Women, “could be in breach of the Advertising Standards Authority’s codes”. 

Following the announcement about reforms to NSW’s consent laws, Claire Lehmann, founding editor of Quillette, has written an important piece in The Australian on three false narratives about women when it comes to sex.