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Lazy Sunday Post: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving

Lazy Sunday Post: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving

October 10, 2010 No Comments

Happy Thanksgiving! (No! Not American Thanksgiving — the proper one). Unfortunately not all of us can be in our glorious homeland to celebrate the day. To help put you in the mood for turkey and pumpkin pie, I present to you A Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving. For the 95% of our readers who are not Canadian, ...

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

October 12, 2009 No Comments

Like emancipation from the British, Thanksgiving is one of those things that Canadians saw was good and borrowed from the Americans. And just because we stole it doesn’t mean we don’t do it in our own special way. In honour of this beloved holiday, I would like to give thanks to Ellen Page for creating ...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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