May your Christmas be as cold as you like it or as warm as you want it. Whether your stockings are hung by the chimney with care or your bathing suit is hung off the balcony to dry — may you spend the day with those you love and with joy in your heart. And ...
A clarion call is echoing throughout the internet. Who should the next Wonder Woman be? She needs to embody all that is powerful about women, and also have the ability to fight evil. (And look good in a leotard). One candidate — Christina Hendricks.
Why is everyone always trying to medicalize women’s sexuality? We are not machines, and we should not feel we have to always be turned on, nymphomaniac, sex goddesses. Yet anther study has come out looking at female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and misleading readers to think that it is more of a problem than it is.
He’s bringing sexy back, yeah. In a new ad for his tequila brand, Justin Timberlake ventures into the complimentary areas of oral sex and female empowerment. Using alcohol to sell sex is nothing new, but it is rare to see a woman on the receiving end. A well dressed woman walks into the room, talking ...
I’m sick and tired of seeing article after article about why men cheat. What about the men who don’t cheat? Where are they hiding? Can we please have a discussion about how men are good honest people? Because most are.
The abortion debate is often framed in terms of life. Anti-abortionists will say that life begins at conception while the pro-choicers counter that it doesn’t. The science behind their assertions is slippery and constantly shifting. But what if the debate were framed differently?
When his words crashed into the internet like a car-wreck, we couldn’t look away. Mad Mel is at it again, people said. I never liked him anyway, they said. There is a lot to say on this topic, but no one is stating the obvious: We should leave Mel alone.
Mick, Morning QuickieOld age homes and retirement facilities are not at all what they used to be. Instead of grannies knitting in front of the television all day, they are hooking up with their boyfriends and having unsafe sex.
Mack, Morning QuickieThe BBC has been running a program called Woman’s Hour since 1946 and have now decided they need a men’s equivalent. Men’s Hour will be on a station that has a lot of sports content in the hopes to catch a bigger audience. But do men really need their own show?
Mack, Morning Quickie
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...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
