Is Not Shaving Your Armpits A Form Of Protest, Or Just Laziness?

There are few things that can cause a general response of revulsion quite like body hair, something an Irish grad student is learning firsthand after making the decision to let her body fuzz be au naturel. Emer O’Toole told The Daily Mail that she stopped shaving 18 months ago to protest the pressure on women to “adhere to artificial gender norms.” On the one hand, we applaud Emer for taking a stand against what she believes is the unfair expectation that... Read More

Protest against power plant in S.China escalates: papers (Reuters)

Reuters – Protests in a small town in China appear to have escalated with residents smashing cars and hurling bricks even though officials sought to calm tempers by suspending a plan to build a power plant, Hong Kong newspapers reported on Thursday.  Read More