A girl brings a boy home for the first time. A beer-bellied father appears, looks at the boy and says “I have a shotgun and I know how to use it.” Or sometimes it’s “I have a gun, a shovel, and a lot of land upstate.” We all know the image: a protective father “protecting” ...
Whether you’re a daddy’s girl or not, Father’s Day makes you look back on the good memories with your dad and the huge role he has played in your life thus far. As much as we all set out to find the man of our dreams, our other half and partner in crime, to raise ...
You would think today’s moms, who have grown up with the feminist rights movement, would try to treat their daughters and sons equally. But sadly, a survey found that moms are still giving sons special privileges while being harder on their daughters, and a shocking 49% think it’s okay to treat boys and girls differently. A survey ...
My mother is coming to visit for two weeks and I am incredibly excited. We have only seen each other three times in the last four years since I left home for university and adventure and live on the opposite side of the world. I’ve learned a lot about my mother in the time I’ve ...
Did you know that Boris Becker has a daughter? Yes, really. Although you could never tell by the new family portraits he took which leave the nine year old out entirely.
Mick, 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...
