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Skinny Models Not Allowed

Skinny Models Not Allowed

May 8, 2012 No Comments

Vogue is finally doing something about the prevalence of underage and underweight models in the fashion industry. Nineteen of the magazine’s worldwide publishers have joined together to make a pact to ban models who have eating disorders and any model who is under the age of 16 from appearing in the magazine. The new standard ...

Lazy Sunday Hair Post

Lazy Sunday Hair Post

May 6, 2012 No Comments

Check out 200,000 years of of women’s hair and makeup!

Shave Your Ugly Beard!

Shave Your Ugly Beard!

April 25, 2012 No Comments

Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has grown a beard and I hate it! Can I tell him to shave? He really likes it but I don’t know how long I can take it. Eyes Are Burning Dear Eyes Are Burning, Honesty is a good policy normally but you don’t want him to feel ugly. How ...

Miniskirts Are Not Sexual Invitations

Miniskirts Are Not Sexual Invitations

March 29, 2012 No Comments

Clothing is never an invitation to rape, even if it is deemed “provocative.” Though the SlutWalk protest marches have been met with controversy, they have become worldwide movements with a positive message. Scantily-clad women walk to show that showing skin doesn’t mean you’re open to sexual assault and that blaming victims over their perpetrators is ...

Celebrity Guestzillas Eclipsing Fashion Designers

Celebrity Guestzillas Eclipsing Fashion Designers

March 15, 2012 No Comments

When Fashion Weeks continue around the world, the media turns its attention for a brief moment to the fashion world. The Fall/Winter 2012 shows are no exception: new trends, shapes and cuts have been born on the runways of Paris, New York and Sao Paolo. The creativity of the designer’s interpretations of the latest styles ...

Does My Sin Look Big In This? The White Dress Conundrum

Does My Sin Look Big In This? The White Dress Conundrum

March 12, 2012 10 Comments

Contrary to popular belief, the tradition of a bride in white does not originate in any cringe-y symbolism about her virginity. This has made me wonder (in a pensive, sitting-on-my-bed-à-la-Carrie-Bradshaw kind of way), do brides, then, simply take part in this tradition for tradition’s sake? I got to thinking about this recently when I was ...

Vancouver Students Create Adjustable High Heels

Vancouver Students Create Adjustable High Heels

March 4, 2012 No Comments

High heel aficionados rejoice! After years of enduring torture sessions in the pursuit of beauty, someone has finally invented an adjustable high heel. Two design students have created what is said to the first of its kind. In an effort to combine style with comfort, the shoe adjusts from a five-inch heel to a lower ...

Don’t Forget To Pack Your Fake Wedding Ring!

Don’t Forget To Pack Your Fake Wedding Ring!

February 28, 2012 2 Comments

If you’re a single woman travelling alone, put a ring on it. That’s right. A recent travel guide issued by Foreign Affairs Canada recommends that globetrotting women minus a mister should wear a wedding ring — real or fake. But there’s more. As if posing as a married woman wasn’t enough, they also recommend that ...

Tight Underpants Will Lead To The End Of Men

Tight Underpants Will Lead To The End Of Men

February 25, 2012 No Comments

I read in the press this week that the previously popular theory that the male human chromosome was gradually disappearing (known as the “Rotting Y” theory) has recently been debunked by research. Apparently, some monkeys to whom we’re distantly related turned out to be just as manly as us, or something, and this shows that ...

Skinny Celebrities Give Us Self-Esteem

Skinny Celebrities Give Us Self-Esteem

February 23, 2012 No Comments

Previous studies have shown that seeing thin women in magazines may trigger a self-loathing response in women. But new research casts all of this perceived negativity aside to say that viewing skinny-minnie models may actually boost a woman’s self-esteem. Huh? Excuse my dumbfounded response, but before now science has declared war against women’s fashion magazines and ...

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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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