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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
