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 ...
Health news changes about every second, especially when it comes to food. One day it’s, “Eat this!” and the next it’s, “You really shouldn’t be eating that.” But rarely does a food get praised for its health benefits and condemned for cancer risk in the same matter of days. Welcome to the mysterious case of ...
Working drives women to drink. A new study from the Washington University School of Medicine has found that women are catching up to men when it comes to alcohol use. Apparently, with equality also comes alcoholism and a beer belly. The weirdest part of the new findings is its suggestion that the rise in working ...
Almost 50 percent of women prefer to have sex drunk. Any way you look at it, that number is pretty darn high. A study of three thousand women aged 18-50 revealed drinking before sex lessened the anxieties they had about their bodies, and made them more confident and adventurous. On average, the women surveyed had ...
If you’ve ever seen the movie Coyote Ugly, you were probably mildly entertained for the hour-and-a-half you sat through it and then put it in the dark recesses of your mind. Recently, it all came flooding back to me as I stepped into a Manhattan bar. My wildest dreams would come true if certain movies ...
In an effort to decrease incidents of sexual violence, Vancouver police are taking action into their own hands by placing blame into the perpetrator’s. Don’t Be That Guy is the provocative new ad campaign created to stop sex assault in its tracks. Since “the campaign targets men willing to have sex with partners too inebriated ...
Ignore those warnings on the bathroom wall! A new compilation of studies from around the world has proven that drinking in moderation while pregnant is actually okay. With all of the terror that comes with drinking while pregnant, it is hard to believe that this is possible. Women have always had to grin and bear ...
Most of the time couples separate due to “irreconcilable differences” — basically a broad term for “shit went down and we don’t want to get into the details.” But when life’s so short, why focus on the negatives? Jack White and his soon-to-be-ex-wife, model Karen Elson, aren’t dwelling on minor details — they’re throwing a ...
It’s certainly not my idea of a party. Actually, it’s up there on my “Worst Nightmare” list. Instead of consuming drinks and leaving feeling buzzed and lightheaded, you’re stuck at a females-only party carrying home a bag full of Tupperware. Word on the BBC street is that Tupperware parties are going to make a comeback. ...
Would you show teens something that could kill them? Would you make it appear sexy and fun? Alcohol companies do it every day. We all know the Four Loko insanity story: the lethal combination of alcohol and stimulants that allowed teens to keep drinking for longer. The company was forced to remove the caffeine from ...
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...
