Opinion

The pandemic has massively spread dating apps, doubling their turnover and encouraging them to enrich themselves with new features. But what are digital daters looking for online? And, above all, do they find it? Here’s a semi-serious (and somewhat personal) investigation.

Sick women often do not reveal the pain they feel. Here's more from Eretica on the deep connection between mental illnesses and gender stereotypes.

This is a critique of feminist politics, mine included. If we do not seriously begin to rethink the old tactics we have been using to dismantle patriarchy, what will be at stake is our death and the death of more of our sisters who are raped, harassed, and threatened every single day.

“Unjust provocation” is a legal term frequently applied in femicide cases in Turkey, to reduce the penalty of the perpetrator. The laws allow the judges to suggest that the murdered woman to some extent deserved to be killed…

Fortunately, there are men who do not over-determine and interfere in the feminist dialectic, but call the masculine into question and discuss gender stereotypes and machismo in a totally independent way.

We, the strong and independent women, daughters of Dany Bustros, Sylvia Plath, and Soad Hosny, are all without exception suffocating under the weight of silent suffering. Like my friend, we too tell ourselves “I want to escape”, sometimes more than once a day.

What is not reported does not exist, and if it does not exist, nothing can be done to change it. Ukraine has not existed until today. There is no Ethiopia, just as there are no Congo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Burundi.

Feminism is at the antipodes of the Putinian virile matrix that it combats, that of the violence in action in all the wars generated by a patriarchal system whose worthy representatives are erected across the world: Trump, Bolzonaro, Edogan, Salvini, Orbàn... to mention just a few.

Fuchsia is the color chosen by the “Non Una Di Meno” (Not one less) movement in Italy. It is a garish, bright and strong color that exasperates and incorporates the stereotypical pink, which, for centuries, has built the feminine identification imposed on girls.

“I will give my cheek to my lover and my kisses to anyone I choose…”. While Arabic poetry served to glorify the heroic Arab, poetry by slave women in captivity, known as Jawari' poetry, was far overlooked. These women’s writings were daring and teeming with defiance and unrestraint…