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Why the Conversation Around Women’s Safety is Broken

Culture, curfews, and control

A Court of Feminism and Double Standards

From Brides to BookTok Heroines, There’s Always a Right Way to Be a Woman

No, Lesbians Do Not Commit the Most Domestic Violence

Misogynists keep citing this study — but they’re misreading the data.

What Does a Midlife Woman Have to Believe About Herself to Stay?

Why experience alone doesn’t protect women from abuse

Can We Please Be Honest About Why We Remove Our Body Hair?

Let’s stop perpetuating patriarchal narratives and just admit that the pressure is crushing

Nice is Different Than Good

We don’t need to respect people just because they used the “right” words

Why Do You Want to Have Kids?

Let’s flip the script about our demands on coupled women

I Wrote About Women Inheriting $30 Trillion. A Man Told Me to Eat Shit.

The nonchalant misogyny of comments on women’s articles

Patriarchy’s Favorite Lie Is That Men Gave Women Their Rights

History says otherwise. Women’s suffrage wasn’t a gift—it was decades of resistance that became impossible to ignore.

What It Means to Be a Shameless Woman

They called us shameless the moment we stopped apologising for existing outside the shape they had built for us. We have been trying to…

Listen Up, Men

Good politics won’t protect you. Women are smarter than that.

The Fridge Protecting the Snacks

One phrase, one party, and a pattern that goes much further than either.

Ozoro Rape Festival: Fear Being Called a Rapist’s Mother

Shouldn’t that be a woman’s greatest fear and her call to train differently?

If Feminism Has to Care About Men First, It Isn’t Liberation

The demand sounds compassionate. Functionally, it delays women’s grievances indefinitely.

Believe All Women (Except When We Don’t)

The Democratic Party’s selective outrage on sexual assault

You Can’t Be a Mentor With Your Dick Out

When career advice comes with strings attached.

The United States Hates Women

They called us hysterical. Then Roe fell, the SAVE Act came for our votes, and no one apologized. Four years on, the pattern is impossible…

Motherhood Doesn’t Need Elon Musk’s Permission.

Stop blaming feminism for everything

“But He Loves You” Isn’t Comforting. It’s a Defense Strategy

Gisèle Pelicot called her 50-year marriage “a beautiful love story.” She wasn’t wrong

What Happens When I Tell Men What I Really Think

Callouts are just the beginning of a sorely needed conversation

Your Life Is Not a Supporting Character Story

Center yourself

Black Men Are Better Husbands — and Western Women Are Too Afraid to Say It

I know what that headline sounds like. I also know what four years of splitting everything equally with a man who made me feel invisible…

Patriarchy Called It Romance So Women Would Never Notice the Dependency

Women weren’t naturally obsessed with love. They were taught to treat dependence as devotion—and then told it was their nature.

Who Decided Skill Has a Gender?

From women driving to men cooking, why do we still divide skills by stereotypes?

Does Your Body Count Define Your Worth As a Woman?

Or does it mean….. you are sexually experienced?

This Is Where Patriarchy Hides But Is Rarely Found

Because when systems get internalised, they’re hardly noticeable

Bitchy’s June Round Up

Editor picks of the best stories published in Bitchy in June

My 12-Year-Old Was Asked to Show Her Body to Play PlayStation.

A birthday party, a Spotify playlist, and a question that made me rethink what we’re teaching our children about human worth

A Good Woman Is An Exploited Woman

Every good woman is somebody else’s convenience.

Women’s Love Is the World’s Most Exploited Resource

The perfect crime against women.

Olivia Rodrigo’s All Women Festival ‘Daisy Chain Fields’ Arrives At Exactly The Right Moment

An all-women lineup featuring Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan, Doechii and Mitski isn’t a radical idea. It’s a reflection of where music…

Stop Trying to Make Female Loneliness Look Aspirational

Do not let them fool you: you need your female friends more than ever

Men Have Been the Real Gold Diggers All Along.

Women brought the labour, the care, the years, and the sacrifice. Yet somehow they were the ones accused of marrying for money.

Playing Hard to Get Isn’t a Strategy. It’s a Demand for Justice.

For generations, women were taught that being endlessly available was love. Reclaiming your agency isn’t a dating tactic — it’s a feminist…

I’ve Never Once Changed My Communication Style to Accommodate a Man’s Inability to Understand Woman…

Despite what they would have you believe, men keep up in conversation just fine

The Dream of Cycling That I Couldn’t Have Because I’m a Girl

The simple thing I was never meant to do

My Teeth Could Ruin My Career

My own teeth could be my downfall — but I won’t let that stop me from chasing my dream

I Asked My Mom About Postpartum Depression. I Wasn’t Ready.

What began as intellectual curiosity ended with an apology I should have made years ago.

Women’s Bodies Build Families. Men’s Names Still Own Them.

Pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and caregiving expose who actually carries the weight of parenthood.

The Surprising Benefits of Being Husbandless in Perimenopause

There’s no room for prioritizing a partner’s needs in this era of my life

Breathing Within the Intense Light: Radical Feminist Ideology and the Embodied Subject in Korean…

A personal reflection on ideology, belonging, and the struggle to remain an embodied subject within Korean feminist spaces.

A Man Loves Three Women, But Never In The Same Order

It’s Finally Over

A California law promised survivors justice and no hassle. Instead, it makes them choose one.

They Call Women "Man-haters" For The Same Reason They Once Blamed Eve

The accusation was never meant to describe women. It was designed to stop people believing them.

The Dream I Was Never Supposed to Think About

My story of me vs. patriarchy

5 Red Flags I Ignored When First Dating My Abusive, Narcissistic Ex

Don’t fall for the manipulator like a dog to a bone

Thin Women Get the Hype. Chubby Women Get the Husbands

Marriage and divorce statistics quietly reveal that men are far more likely to choose and stay with chubbier women than our thin-obsessed…

Patriarchy’s Most Efficient Move Was Teaching Women to Guard the Gate

On mothers, daughters, and the rules nobody admits they’re teaching

Patriarchy Didn’t Need Men Anymore. So It Learned to Speak Through Women.

The most effective systems of female exploitation no longer arrive as control. They arrive as empowerment.

As a Man, Is It Wrong to Protest Against the Women’s Anti-Aging Industry?

Women are trying to age naturally, but keep being fed back into the machine