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Leave My Bloody Diamond Alone

Leave My Bloody Diamond Alone

January 20, 2012 No Comments

Apparently it’s not done for women to wear their engagement rings to interviews. Personally I think it’s a good policy for women of a certain age to leave their wedding bands at home, because the assumption will either be that you already have kids or that you’ll get hired and then immediately run off and ...

Single And Loving It

Single And Loving It

December 30, 2011 No Comments

Being single around the holidays opens people up to an interrogation about their sex life from bothersome relatives. There is also pressure at office parties, potluck dinners, and New Year’s Eve parties. But alone no longer translates into lonely. People are slower to pair off than ever before because, quite honestly, being single is fun! ...

My Hero, The Garbage Picker

My Hero, The Garbage Picker

November 15, 2011 No Comments

Spiderman saves Mary Jane from free-falling to her death, Superman goes to great lengths to protect Lois Lane and, in Titanic, Jack apparently saves Rose “in every way that a person can be saved.” That’s all good and glorious, but our beloved cinematic saviours are far from real-life heroes. So it’s about time we acknowledge ...

Have Women Brainwashed Men?

August 12, 2010 1 Comment

Men don’t understand women. Women train their boyfriends to behave the way they want. It’s all a bit nuts, if you ask me. One men’s magazine has said that women have brainwashed men into behaving certain ways and doing things for them. What do we think about this? Read on.

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Mengagement Rings And What I Think Of The Wedding Industry

Mengagement Rings And What I Think Of The Wedding Industry

February 20, 2010 No Comments

The wedding industry has added yet another ‘essential’ to the list of overly expensive, unnecessary items couples need to buy before they can feel they are doing it right. The engagement ring for men, or mengagement ring as it is being called.

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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