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"Attractive wins and ugly loses in today's rat race" was the summarizing headline when the concept of 'erotic capital' was introduced, back in 2011. Even more so today "the financial returns of attractiveness equal the returns of qualifications". Many...

So, concluding, we on the continent have more Erotic Capital than the souls across the Atlantic, while there's this fundamental difference between radical Anglo-Saxon feminism and the continental feminism of France and southern European countries. This...

It may be 2018, but the fight for gender equality is as prominent as ever. No-one really knows anymore who's more equal than the other. Though to me it seems men are on the losing side… One of the latest turmoils in the midst of the #MeToo storm was the...

In my previous blog I wrote about why I organise bootcamps to teach women to transform their hidden feminine assets into belle laide, sex appeal, sensuality, social skills, social presentation and overall liveliness & energy. In a dynamic dance...

In the other blog I'm talking about what several other gender professors finally acknowledge as 'the 4th asset that shapes your capital'. It has been one of my hobbyhorses for many years at the University and I work hard to impregnate society with its...

Let's be clear: Sexual abuse in any form directed at women is about power, and the only criteria necessary to be on the end of it is being female. From racism to sexism, as the expansive #MeToo takes off, it's clear that women - no matter their shape,...

To summarize my two previous blogs, we see many women today, in response to the #MeToo wave, who do express a lot of self-confidence, well-informed, educated and self-conscious as they maybe are, but who make it overtly political and hostile. And at the...

#Metoo is good and also devastating for male-female relationships. The down side of it puts women once again in the victims' corner. And is that's where we still are? Not people in our own right; not women with agency or passion or a desire for...

I was triggered by that provocative interview with Fay Weldon in Belgian magazine HUMO the other day (it also appeared in De Volkskrant)... Obviously, there are two parts to her reputation: first that she is a feminist writer of the most brilliant kind,...