Author: Ophelia Benson

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.

Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.

A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.

There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

Feminism created a new normal.

Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’

‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’

ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.

‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’

79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.

The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed.

Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.

We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’

Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.

You can be certain and be wrong.

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.

Where did all the French feminists go?