Archive for February, 2010

This Job Is Pretty Competitive

This Job Is Pretty Competitive

February 28, 2010 No Comments

Forget talent or brains, it is looks that get people ahead in this world — at least in my newrsoom. I sit across from a pretty girl in the office who also happens to be a crack reporter and an ace writer. However, her assignments are solely based on what she wears to work that ...

Fortune Cat: Your Life This Week

Fortune Cat: Your Life This Week

February 27, 2010 No Comments

I know your future, at least as far as next week. As a cat I can see things that others can’t (and chase things that are not there). Take a deep breath and be prepared to meet your fate. It may be scary, it might be terrifying, but at least you’ll know what’s coming.

Book Review: Written In The Flesh, A History Of Desire

Book Review: Written In The Flesh, A History Of Desire

February 26, 2010 No Comments

Total body sex is the idea that all parts of the body can give and receive pleasure; that erogenous zones are not limited to the genitals and face. This is the goal of all sexual pleasure. Amazon.com WidgetsWritten in the Flesh, A History of Desire, takes a look at what kind of sex people have always ...

Lady Gaga Wants To Comment On Her Dick And/Or Vagina

Lady Gaga Wants To Comment On Her Dick And/Or Vagina

February 25, 2010 No Comments

Lady Gaga poses on the cover of the Q with her dick out. “I want to comment on [my dick] in a beautiful, artistic way. How I wanna show it. And I want to call this piece Lady Gaga Dies Hard,” she said. Of course the mag went with “Lady Gaga has Risen.” “We all ...

Curvy Women Make Men High

Curvy Women Make Men High

February 25, 2010 No Comments

New research has shown that looking at a curvy woman actives the same pleasure centres in a man’s brain as drugs. Of course, the hourglass figure was the most simulating of all. “The caucasian, westernised female has somehow been duped into thinking men like very skinny, waify, Kate Moss-type girls. Curviness is the trump card. ...

Cigarettes: The New Oral Sex

Cigarettes: The New Oral Sex

February 24, 2010 No Comments

A new stop smoking ad suggests an analogy between fellatio and smoking. The intentionally shocking images have caused a furor in France. The ads show older men pushing their hands on the heads of the young man and woman kneeling before them. The cigarettes are in the same position the penis would be. The tag-line ...

Jealous Of A Game?

Jealous Of A Game?

February 24, 2010 1 Comment

Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has been playing this computer game where he has a relationship with one of the characters. It is not a side line to the game but the whole point of the game. He buys her flowers, takes her to movies and showers her with affection in the game. He is spending ...

Do Men Need To Be Remasculated?

February 23, 2010 2 Comments

Men have sunk into a sweat-pant swaddled life, according to Details. This kind of whiny, pathetic existence will no longer cut it, and the world needs real men to handle the drama of the 2010s. Why can’t these lad mags just let the boys be?

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Going Ga-Ga For The Lady’s Condoms

Going Ga-Ga For The Lady’s Condoms

February 23, 2010 No Comments

It’s hard to keep a pokerface looking at these neon wonders. But Lady Gaga’s line of condoms has all proceeds going to Planned Parenthood. Hopefully they have as much substance as style. “It’s not complicated, just a fashion statement,” Salon reports the pop icon saying. “Everybody wrap it up with Jeremy Scott for Proper Attire ...

Pregnancy, Alcohol, Poverty: British Culture Needs A Serious Makeover

Pregnancy, Alcohol, Poverty: British Culture Needs A Serious Makeover

February 22, 2010 No Comments

The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe and the government is constantly putting money into sex education programs, birth control, and the like to help reduce this. But I have a more radical (realistic?) idea on how to curb teenage pregnancy: the culture of alcohol and drinking in the UK is the ...

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A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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