My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to start a “men’s centre” on campus, as a place for men (according to the would-be founders) to discuss “men’s issues and mental wellness and all the different things that come along with that.” The article was ...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never mind the products themselves. But now we’re all mature, we’re all free, non-judgemental, confident in ourselves and our sexuality. Yes, whatever yins your yang, it’s all totally groovy. So we’re all using skincare products, nobody’s mocked ...
My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in that, many of us would think. This report also claimed that men actually gain from being such fibbers. Again, this sort of declaration possibly isn’t going to shake the earth on its axis. But what was ...
Some men are leg men. Some like bottoms. Some prefer breasts. Some men even like personalities. Me, I’m a sucker for streamlining, hot for hubcaps, wild about wipers, windscreens and wheel-arches. I never thought I’d say it, but I’m in love with our new car. It’s not a sexual thing – I don’t sit in ...
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment of my gallstones, I thought to myself for the hundredth time that hour: Why did I eat all those sausages? Well, why did I do it? I’ve had the gallstones for a while and I know ...
“Hell is other people,” as the philosopher said. And nowhere is this more true than in the office. Most of us work, have worked, or will work in an office at some point in our lives; and most of us will have experienced the hell that other people make them. I’m not talking about the ...
If you put your faith in popular media you’d assume that men drool at the mention of sex but wince at the sound of snuggle and that women are so snuggle obsessed that they’ll even go to the extraordinary lengths of having sex to get it. Truth is, the gap in male and female needs ...
Men like peeing outside. That’s a fact. Of course, they are well equipped to do so, with a handy nozzle attachment for pointing accurately, without any need to sit down, and so on. But considering how rarely there is any need for men to pee outside, they do it a lot. I did it myself ...
Like most people, I have been given many pieces of wisdom over the years by my parents. However, three from each of them have stuck in my mind through the years. Perhaps significantly, they differ in their nature. Firstly, my Dad’s. They were: 1. When driving, always have your speed adjusted before turning into a ...
Baldness. It’s all the rage -– well, it is with men. Of course, there’s nothing new about male pattern baldness being on the increase, as it has been for some time, and we all know being hairless is not so different now, and nothing to tease men about (well, almost nothing). So why do some ...
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...
