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A model has had to defend her role as a promoter at an agriculture show after puritanical progressives branded it as a “backward step” for women.

The organization is instructing parents that suggesting to a child that she give a thank-you hug to a relative for a gift may plant the seed that she owes sexual favors later on in her life when someone takes her to dinner.

According to the Huffington Post, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a classic Christmas film, is “problematic” and “marginalized reindeer.”

Trump supporters are not only deplorable, they also exhibit a “peevish, racist cruelty,” declares the Guardian newspaper Friday, which makes white women who vote Republican especially guilty.

Kleenex will re-brand its “Mansize” tissues after consumers complained the name was sexist — touching off a social media conversation about what’s in a name.

Beto O’Rourke apologized for once writing that the only qualifications of actresses in Broadway’s The Will Roger’s Follies were their “phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

Three of the most prominent Islamists in Afghanistan who now serve in Kabul’s government have sparked criticism for allegedly watching Chinese women performing acrobatic dances during a celebration marking China’s communism over the weekend.

Heather Mac Donald, the New York Times bestselling author, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss American academia and society at large’s “diversity delusion.”

LONDON (AP) — The London Fire Brigade wants the media to stop depicting firefighters as hunky sex objects.

Left-wing activists at the University of Wyoming are insisting that the school’s new slogan, “The world needs more cowboys,” is “racist” and needs to be dumped.

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry and current ESPN reporter Sarah Spain got in a huge Twitter fight on Monday over sexism, feminism, and what they did to get where they are.

Several prominent sports journalists went at it on social media Monday, over a job posting which specifically requested female applicants.

Elliot Schrage, the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, apologized for calling a woman “not nice,” which she claimed was an act of sexism, and announced his departure from the company.

In a bizarre essay on Thursday, the New Yorker offers seven signs that “your man’s masculinity is non-toxic,” including the fact that he promotes women in the workplace, drinks white wine, and cries during Pixar movies.

A judge argued that sexism played a role in the expulsion of a male student at Johnson and Wales University who suffered an allegedly botched investigation into a sexual assault allegation against him.

A highly decorated police officer has won nearly £900,000 from London police after he was driven out of his job by a female boss on a witch hunt to eradicate perceived “macho” culture.

On a crowded San Francisco elevator, someone was pushing floor buttons for everyone else. One man joked that he would like to stop at “ladies lingerie.” And now, after Simona Sharoni, a women’s and gender studies professor at Merrimack College, filed a complaint, he is being forced to apologize.

In a report published on Monday, Human Rights Watch excoriated Chinese companies and government agencies for using sexist job advertising to maintain a dramatic imbalance between men and women in the workforce. The report quotes job listings that explicitly state men are required or preferred, plus ads that lure male applicants by promising “goddesses” or “beautiful girls” as co-workers.

In a tell-all released almost 18 months after the fact, New York Times reporter Amy Chozick has finally decided to inform the public that she and other female journalists dealt with unwanted touching and other forms of sexism at the hands of Hillary Clinton’s male campaign staffers.

In their essay titled “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read Before You Die,” the editors of GQ recommend rewriting canons of Great Books by swapping out works that are hard to read, dangerously backward, or politically incorrect with more contemporary works that conform to the values and sensibilities of the modern cultural elite.

The University of Southern California has installed a provocative exhibit titled “Dismantle Whiteness and Misogyny on Campus” in an apparent effort to combat “racism, sexism and xenophobia.”

Tokyo (Japan) (AFP) – Japan’s sumo association came under fire for sexism again on Thursday after requesting girls be prevented from participating in events showcasing the traditional sport.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s argument that unsuccessful male presidential candidates haven’t been told to leave the public eye by stating

A strong majority of both British women and men believe feminism has gone as far as it should go or too far, and fewer than one in three defines themselves as a feminist, a poll has found.

PARIS (AP) — French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb says the government is introducing a 90-euro fine ($110) for street harassment and sexist comments.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg claimed Sunday that “sexism” and a “macho atmosphere” contributed to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election loss.

Kyle Kulinski, the 30-year-old host of Secular Talk, which airs on the far-left Young Turks YouTube network, has a history of racist tweets.

Oxford University extended exam times in math and computer science last year by 15 minutes in a bid to boost grades of female students, it has emerged.

While discussing the president’s attitude towards women during an interview on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” argued that it isn’t a surprise that President Trump

In the continuing crusade to remold the English language in the name of gender-inclusiveness, a high school in Massachusetts has decided to abolish the offensive term “freshmen” in favor of the politically correct “first year students.”

Google Translate has been criticized for “sexist” algorithms, which associated nurses and cooks with women and engineers with men.

Dana Nessel, a Democrat running for Michigan Attorney General, jolted her campaign into the national conversation Tuesday with a sexist ad asking voters if they can afford not to have an all-female ticket for statewide office.

A Labour MP with deep family connections to Bangladesh’s repressive government has angrily threatened a pregnant journalist and implied it is racist to ask if she would help a kidnapped Briton in the country.

School inspectors are so concerned at the level of sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western material in Britain’s Islamic schools, they have compiled a dossier of examples.

Critiques of President Donald Trump’s female nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security are powered by sexism, an op-ed for the Washington Examiner claims, even though nominee Kirstjen Nielsen supports amnesty for illegal aliens and has downplayed a border wall.

Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a “safe space” at the Thanksgiving dinner table surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.