Bloody Facebook. I knew there was a reason I became a reluctant convert. It’s all very well having hilarious banter with my actual friends, who are an international crowd, but there’s the well-documented difficulty of “people from the past.” I don’t mean a dark, shady past like everyone on Days of our Lives reveals just ...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
You have to hand it to Beyoncé and Jay-Z for entering the parenthood phase of their lives with style and grace. Instead of making millions off of Blue Ivy’s first moments, essentially turning their newborn into a cash cow, they post the intimate pictures on Tumblr to share their little babe with the world on ...
Long and luscious locks may always come to mind when I reminisce about Barbie, but surely there’s room for a bald version of the popular doll, especially if it’s for a good cause. Two women, whose lives have been greatly affected by cancer (Jane Bingham lost her hair when undergoing chemotherapy treatments and Rebecca Sypin‘s young ...
Amidst the sick-making mega marriage proposals, creepy “dates” with celebrities and random members of the public and hyperbole-ridden celebrity divorces, there was a bit of real romance this year. But it wasn’t on social media. 2011 may have been the year to project your foreplay/cutesy relationship/marriage proposal/infidelity/breakup/divorce/custody battle to the huddled masses via Twitter, but ...
If you’re a woman, forget drinking the new version of Dr. Pepper. It’s for men only. At least it’s so heavily marketed towards men that we’re safe calling the Dr. Pepper Ten (for ten “manly” calories) ad campaign an extreme example of “manvertizing.” However, it goes beyond just targeting men. At the end of the ...
For Orthodox Jews, Facebook may not necessarily be a bad idea, but it’s also not ideal. There are racy pictures, dirty words, men can creep on women and vice versa. Really, it’s far from Kosher. So one Hasidic programmer is taking matters into his own tech-savvy hands. After hearing a woman say it was a ...
Facebook is in legal trouble again. An Irish daddy is suing Facebook because his daughter posted nude pictures of herself on her page. She is only 12. Oh boy. Apparently he already shut down one account she had because of similar behaviour, and needless to say, this was done behind his back. But it’s no ...
As the entire medical community keeps going back and forth on their guidelines for mammograms, the social media inclined are starting up a new viral meme to remind us in an extremely far fetched way that breast cancer is dangerous. Last time, women were asked to naughtily write where they liked to keep their handbags ...
Pro-Rape Facebook groups such as You know shes playing hard to get when your chasing her down an alleyway torment victims and poke fun at something so unfunny. How could they see rape as comedic? I had no clue that groups like these were even in existence until now. They obviously need to be exposed ...
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...
