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Don’t Delay, Have Kids Today! (Or Else)

Don’t Delay, Have Kids Today! (Or Else)

September 16, 2011 1 Comment

If you’re a young woman, you probably dread hearing people talk about your body as if it was a ticking time bomb. Alas, a recent report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information is telling us that women are procrastinating when it comes to getting knocked up, and they’re facing dire consequences as a result. ...

Will Botox Save Your Marriage?

Will Botox Save Your Marriage?

July 12, 2011 No Comments

Some think that people pick a mate based on equal hotness. But if you don’t match up, you might want to consider plastic surgery. Or maybe you just want to do something fun with your number one. Whatever the reason, couples are becoming beautiful together. If Bruce and Kris Jenner can do it, anyone can. ...

If I Want Kids, I’ll Have ‘Em

If I Want Kids, I’ll Have ‘Em

March 4, 2011 No Comments

Women are always portrayed in movies as having it all together career-wise but being compete dunces with their personal lives. Sure, she has a job and friends, but she can’t really be happy until she meets Mr Right and has a chance to settle down and begin a family. If only she understood that before ...

Ambivalence About Having Kids Shouldn’t Be Taboo

Ambivalence About Having Kids Shouldn’t Be Taboo

February 25, 2011 3 Comments

All my life I have assumed that I would get married and have kids, but I never once had an active urge to make babies. I knew women and men who had always dreamed of the day they could have their own families, and next to them I felt like I was a bad person. ...

She Refuses To Kneel At The Altar Of The Penis

She Refuses To Kneel At The Altar Of The Penis

December 9, 2010 No Comments

Helen Mirren is sick of penis. Specifically she is sick of the reverence given to them in Hollywood. In a beautiful speech given at the Women In Entertainment awards, she eloquently summed up the problems faced by women in the entertainment industry, and the world at large. “Unappreciated, underused and ill-used,” she began. “Undervalued, undernourished, ...

Men Prefer Long-Limbed Ladies

Men Prefer Long-Limbed Ladies

October 2, 2010 No Comments

Women with long arms rated as most attractive in a study of Chinese and Australian men, surpassing weight, age and hip size as an indicator of desirability. The research was done at the University of New South Wales and was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. The men were asked to rate pictures of ...

Magic Pants To Get Rid Of Men’s Midlife Spread

Magic Pants To Get Rid Of Men’s Midlife Spread

August 17, 2010 No Comments

Most men spread out across their middle as they get older and there’s not a whole lot they can do about it. No matter how much they exercise those muscles just lose their bounce. Now Wizard Jeans have launched a male line of jeans to flatten bellies and lift bums. Of course all the models ...

A Midlife Crisis We Should All Encourage

August 13, 2010 No Comments

A middle-aged man in a sports car with his mistress in the passenger seat is the way most of us picture a midlife crisis. It seems there’s a new trend that ditches the car and the woman and gets the man on a bicycle. This is something we can all agree with. Jon Henley from the ...

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Ozzy’s Prescription For A Virgin And Advice From Other First Timers

Ozzy’s Prescription For A Virgin And Advice From Other First Timers

July 18, 2010 No Comments

The Times has given Ozzy Osbourne his own medical advice column (his qualification being the ability to defy death for the last three decades). This week a 30 year old virgin wrote in, asking whether he should start “playing the field” until that special someone comes along. Ozzy’s advice was painfully predictable.

The Myth Of The Grumpy Old Man

The Myth Of The Grumpy Old Man

March 26, 2010 No Comments

Grumpy old men do not exist. You may know a few of them, but it turns out that young people are grumpier while oldies look back to happy memories. Researchers in New Zealand got old and young people to look at happy and sad pictures. They found that in older people, there were stronger connections ...

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How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

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...

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