My partner is impotent. The medication he is on makes his penis small and tucked away, as if he is constantly cold. With the nicest attention it will peak its head out before limply pulling back. Sex is entirely out of the question. But this article is not about it. It is about me.
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada – specifically Vancouver and its environs – has had far too many women go missing. Many, though not all, have been street-workers. Prostitution, compounded by addiction, is clearly a high-risk occupation, one that remains without benefit of worker’s protection plans. Too often when they’ve gone missing, police have ...
It was with some awe that I, as a female child and then teenager growing up in a Western, democratic country, received news and associated gossip about women of my mother’s and grandmother’s generations who had ‘made it’. There were several after all: the thrice divorced and childless Queen’s Council; the UN Ambassador from India, ...
Men want sex and women want commitment. Women are needy and manipulative and men are slow witted fools who stare vacantly at the TV muttering “football…boobs…” Although the media portrays us this way, this is just not true.
Guest ContributorOctober’s release of Mira Nair’s Amelia came and went with all the effect of a cropduster that had forgotten its load. Yes, Hilary Swank was the perfect choice to portray the flier, looking so much like Earhart it was sometimes downright eerie. And yes, the blending of archival photos as transitions into action was a ...
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Newly engaged and already in a sweat about the BIG DAY? Is your inner bride humming Girls Just Wanna Have Fun instead of the Wedding March? Forget Weddings for Dummies and Bridal Basics 101. Consider having an out-of-town wedding, and leave traditional expectations at the airport. Look no further than the travel section of the ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
The Duggar family, famous for their religious beliefs and 18 children, have just announced on the Today Show that they are adding to their brood. My friend was obsessed with their show “18 Kids and Counting” a few months ago. She yearned for a life of such structure and tranquility: I’ve been kind of obsessed ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
