How truly public is domestic violence in Lebanon? We hear stories about women abused in their homes, we might even know a couple but we are forced to feel that there is nothing we can do about it. Our hands are tied when the law is against common sense.A� A friend of mine, while on […]
Category Archives: Women’s Roles and Situations
All-Men Societies? The End of Humanity…
Will there be a sex war in the upcoming years of the 21st century? Has it already started? When parents are able to choose the sex of their child using in vitro fertilization (IVF) and artificial insemination (AI), and world statistics show that boys are preferred, especially in conservative and highly patriarchal societies – such […]
Ania Lisewska… "Not in Lebanon!"
Ita��s been on national television for a couple of days now. Shea��s become what everybody talks about: the girl who wants to have sex with a 100 000 men. People dona��t bother to remember her name; shea��s just that girl that is sex crazed. Ania Lisewska. She is 21 years old, in a long term […]
What is Empowerment and what does Feminism have to do with it?
Empowering Women makes for empowered Men, creating empowered Children, producing empowered Communities and builds empowered Societies. Empowerment is a concept used extensively in a wide range of applications and human interaction. To understand empowerment, first power dynamics need to be understood, which is an area too intensive for this piece. The basics of power dynamics […]
What is Obscenity?
I am sharing a message i received this morning without mentioning its source: “Isn’t it obscene to talk about sexuality, i mean mentioning and studying words like ‘vagina’ and ‘phallus’? Do you really need to do it, you feminists? Can’t you just talk about beauty, kids, cooking and shopping like other normal women would do?” […]
Courage…
Courage… It’s this inner voice… Talking to you every morning while drinking your coffee and wondering about the rest of your day, and every night before sleeping: ‘try again tomorrow’, Asking you to be patient while driving for hours to your work, stuck in Beirut traffic, noise and air pollution, Giving you strength to look […]
Elle obéit…
Par Davina Maria Silence Obéissance Il crie Elle se tait Un coup de fouet Elle prie Malheur Douleur Orage à l’interieur Plaies et ecchymoses Visage blessé et regard morose Elle aimerait bien s’échapper et partir loin Mais elle n’avait pas le choix et ne possédait rien Et elle risquait de souffrir en martyr s’il retrouvait […]
Flowers on the Earth
Flowers on the Earth Women are born… We are born to a world of diamonds and gold… oppression, suppression, segregation, prejudice, control…….domination. As women, we are pushed, shoved, tricked, swindled, abused, used, entertained, pacified…harnessed. Pulled, prodded, bought, sold, exchanged, manipulated, followed, forgotten…..stolen. We are paid less, we work more, and we run the worlds of […]
Fairy Tales!
I started to think about this subject a year ago when I used to read old stories and Disney tales to my daughter. Hungry wolves, bad witches, scary monsters, greedy giants, heroic princes and beautiful princesses, living happily ever after in a castle, served by hundreds of maids and low-class workers… Old stories with themes […]
La sexualité sacrée: tabou 'repensable'
Quelle ne fut leur surprise en découvrant que le monde hindou regorge d’un mélange de plaisirs sexuels et de croyances religieuses, de servantes des dieux (les devasdasi) appartenant à un époux divin qu’elles étaient tenues de divertir et, pour que la jouissance soit parfaite, de combler charnellement – mais leur divin marie étant par nature […]