Like most men, I make, and abjectly fail to keep, New Year’s Resolutions. Every year, without respite. Of course, I’m good at thinking them up. In fact, if I had an over-arching aim (as modern business-speak would have it) of simply making New Year’s Resolutions, I would count my endeavours in this field as a ...
It’s not often that a day goes by without hearing the word “penis.” Hey, I’m not complaining. Austin Powers had some funny euphemisms for it, but lately, I find that I want it raw and uncensored (the word or the actual flesh and blood). And this is just what’s on the menu this fall. I’m ...
Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears: all of them are overcoming a tragic existence rife with turmoil. In terms of literature, they may not be Jane Eyre, but writer Carina Chocano believes they are the modern day Gothic heroines: The girl, meanwhile, has taken up residence in a gloomy and most certainly haunted chateau ...
It’s a scenario worthy of the best Shakespearean tragedy. But it’s a true story.The setting: the province of Rajasthan in India. A childless man, Ramesh, adopts a monkey, Raju, as his son and hopes to see him married to another monkey. After a fortuitous meeting with a priest from a neighbouring village, the beloved monkey ...
If any word relating to women has been through the blender, housewife is at the top of the list. It has survived a vicious and brutal war where definitions were pitted against each other and finally came to a compromise to ensure the word would live on in perpetuity. Let’s measure up our opponents. Our ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
