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Harper’s Future Boyfriends Are Turning David Beckham Grey

Harper’s Future Boyfriends Are Turning David Beckham Grey

October 5, 2011 No Comments

Have you ever been told, ”You’re giving me grey hair!” Probably. But if your name is Harper Seven Beckham, David Beckham’s only daughter, you are already giving him a projected head full of grey for simply being a girl. “Beckham says he plans to be ‘overprotective in every way possible’ and his sons will be ‘exactly ...

Stop Being Ashamed Of Your Botox Habit

Stop Being Ashamed Of Your Botox Habit

August 31, 2011 No Comments

Some women want to get Botox to smooth out their wrinkles and make them look younger. Who cares? Women care. Young women (average age of 19) and older women (average age of 70) think that middle-aged women who get Botox injections are vain, according to a study at the University of Toronto. It seems a ...

Women Would Rather Die Young Than Grow Old

Women Would Rather Die Young Than Grow Old

August 30, 2011 2 Comments

We all know how women choose their looks over health. They go under the knife to increase their roundness of their breasts, while others starve themselves to “perfection.” But far more innocuous beauty regimes are also to blame. Women would rather buy skin treatments that “fight” wrinkles than shield that skin from developing cancer. In ...

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, ...

How Aging Works

How Aging Works

December 3, 2010 No Comments

Natalie had one photo a day taken from birth and now, through the magic of YouTube, we can see her age 12 years in less than 2 minutes. I hope they continue with this project, because while it is sweet to see a little baby grown into a girl, it would be really interesting to ...

Quote Of The Week

Quote Of The Week

October 18, 2010 No Comments

Does desire melt away with age? I’m waiting for that day to come. Sexual desire is like aging–a lot of it is up here [points to her head]. — Betty White

Quote Of The Week

Quote Of The Week

August 30, 2010 No Comments

I’m afraid the time has passed when old women, no matter how magical, are acknowledged as having any value beyond their future as compost. — Writer to the Stars

You’ll Never Be A Mom, Study Warns

You’ll Never Be A Mom, Study Warns

January 30, 2010 No Comments

You’re a bad mother. No kids? That’s why. A new study has come out informing working women that having a baby over the age of 30 is practically a miraculous event, and that having kids over 40 is actually evidence of the Rapture.

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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