I was watching Ricky Gervais' Fame tour last night and about 30 minutes in he starts joking about rape. In the skit he asks "what sort of society has to remind people not to rape?" It's referring to an advertisement that emphasises consent in sexual ...
By Suntosh Pillay
Why is it that men mostly join organisations and committees where they have some position of power and rarely offer themselves simply as volunteers who want to make a positive difference? This was just one of the questions posed ...
Yesterday I was walking in Cape Town’s city centre with a good friend of mine. As we crossed the road, a few construction workers in a truck began to verbally harass her, calling her a string of disgusting things.
So I yelled to them, “Fuck of...
With his latest Sunday Times cartoon, Zapiro has ventured where angels should fear to tread. I am saying "should" because it shows that journalist-cartoonists can be as desensitised as other South Africans about the social crises that beset us.
I...
"It's so unfair -- there's a Women's Day, so why can't there be a Men's Day?" wonder woebegone males countrywide each August. The answer is that every day (including August 9) is in actual fact a man's day.
Yes, we have a Constitution that enshrin...
This is us. No miracle nation. No rainbow nation. Just us: violent; intolerant of difference -- hitting where it hurts. Let’s not try to sweet-talk ourselves. This is who we are. Let’s look ourselves in the eye.
We are lurching from crisis to ...
