Saudi women’s male guardians now receive text messages on their phones informing them when women in their custody leave the country.… Read the rest
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Women in Ireland are third class citizens 
Nov 22nd, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Campaigners in Ireland have vowed to keep demonstrating until something concrete is done on this issue.… Read the rest
Steven Moxon explains that women are incapable
Nov 22nd, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He tells a parliamentary committee that women are biologically unfit to rise to the top in business.… Read the rest
Why she voted “no” to women bishops
Nov 22nd, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To be called to be a bishop is not to be called to be a CEO but to be a father to the church family. That’s why.… Read the rest
BBC Newsday talks to Leo Igwe
Nov 21st, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
African Humanists gather next week in Ghana to look at ways to promote an African “Enlightenment”. BBC Newsday’s Akwasi Sarpong spoke to Leo Igwe.… Read the rest
Acknowledge ‘Almighty God’ or go to jail
Nov 21st, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The law states, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God.”… Read the rest
Mabus arrested and released
Nov 20th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He was arrested for violating the terms of his release, and released after agreeing to a series of conditions. Do we detect a pattern here?… Read the rest
Kevin Clash resigns
Nov 20th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Clash has played Elmo on “Sesame Street” for decades. He was profiled in a documentary last year, “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey.”… Read the rest
Anjem Choudary plans to “declare a fatwa” on Malala
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s not a death sentence, he says generously.… Read the rest
Ars Technica on the arrest of Mabus/Markuze
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Among the conditions of his parole were that he stay off social networks. He didn’t.… Read the rest
The murder of Guinea’s treasury director Aissatou Boiro
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She was investigating a high-level corruption case involving the alleged embezzlement of more than 13 billion Guinean francs (US$1.8 million) from public funds.… Read the rest
Details of Halappanavar inquiry team announced
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Government was fully aware of the anger and upset over the death of Ms Halappanavar seen during protest marches over the weekend.… Read the rest
Iran considers law restricting women’s right to travel
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The draft law stipulates that single women up to the age of 40 must receive official permission from their father or male guardian in order to obtain travel documents.… Read the rest
Censorship of social media in India
Nov 19th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A young woman was arrested in Bombay today for asking on Facebook why the city was observing a city-wide shut down to commemorate the death of Bal Thackeray… Read the rest
Republicans still say No to Violence Against Women Act
Nov 18th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
House GOP leaders aren’t yielding to a bipartisan coalition of Senate leaders demanding they extend the protections of the Violence Against Women Act.… Read the rest
Athens: producers of “Corpus Christi” charged with blasphemy
Nov 18th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Golden Dawn and the Orthodox church unite to repress all the things.… Read the rest
Female genital chopping in Indonesia
Nov 18th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Far from scaling down, the problem of FGM in Indonesia has escalated sharply.… Read the rest
Rallies in Dublin, Galway in memory of Savita Halappanavar
Nov 17th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Well not in memory of – in protest at the circumstances of.… Read the rest
Egypt: Islamists want to destroy pyramids and Sphinx
Nov 16th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” said a jihadist lunatic.… Read the rest
Rita Banerji on Diwali as a celebration of misogyny
Nov 15th, 2012 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sita’s years in exile are paradoxically reflective of the lives of thousands of women in India’s slums and villages today.… Read the rest
