Well folks, the apocalypse may finally be upon us. It isn’t anything fancy or dramatic like a zombie attack or tidal wave from 2012. It isn’t aliens or monsters. It’s gonorrhea. Scientists have found a new strain of super-gonorrhea that has shown resistance to antibiotics and other cures. The new form is called Ho41 and ...
Us feminists get in trouble for picking on the boys, so sometimes it’s best to let them scrap it out by themselves. Here the good men at The Good Men Project take on the snickering frat boys at Guyism.com. They get schooled in both evolutionary theory and masculinity. It may not be pretty, but it ...
Comedians don’t expect to get much — except for laughs. However they do get an award — the Mark Twain Prize for Humour is given each year for contributions to American comedy. This year Tina Fey won, but part of her acceptance speech was censored. Bizarrely it was about Sarah Palin, the figure she was praised ...
It’s sadly predictable, but it tends to be true: men love eating big chunks of charred animal, and women, well, they tend to be a bit more varied in their diets – OK, they eat a LOT more salad. I’m not saying they love it, but they seem to know what’s good for them. (Except ...
Women with long arms rated as most attractive in a study of Chinese and Australian men, surpassing weight, age and hip size as an indicator of desirability. The research was done at the University of New South Wales and was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. The men were asked to rate pictures of ...
Evolution has designed men and women to cheat — we all know this because every month one publication or another makes it their cover story. But it is more complicated than that. If we really were designed to be a species of philanderers, why has every culture in the world designed their societies around marriage? ...
Porn is considered man’s domain. For centuries they secreted their dirty images under the bed, inside novels, and passed them off to their friends with the assumption that the women in their lives would die
The current trend of women delaying childbirth until their 30s and even 40s on a regular basis has impacts for society as a whole. One of these may be that we will evolve to have children naturally at a later age. Personally, I’m skeptical. Researchers at the University of Sheffield studied marriage and birth trends since the ...
Sex toys aren’t just for people any more. In fact, they probably never were. Scientists have discovered that some chimps in Tanzania use leaves as a primitive sex toy to help get each other in the mood. There goes another indicator separating humans from the animal kingdom.
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...
The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...
Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...
There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...
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My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...
