No one will sleep with me if I’m fat. I’m sure that’s correct, because I’ve rarely seen a fat person engaged in an act of passion on a dating website advertisement. Or anywhere. Ah, but it isn’t true. According to expert advice, confidence counts for much more than perfection. In a clear reminder that men ...
Psychology Today has come out with an article explaining why women need to take better care of their looks and why we all need to face up to the fact that outer beauty (just for women, mind you, not men) is important. The author, a woman, Amy Alkon, says that the current trend of claiming that ...
Italy has its share of beautiful women and it acknowledges that they won’t all be thin. They have been running the Miss Chubby pageant for 20 years and announced the most recent winner yesterday. This year’s winner is Angela Scognamiglio who feels like she has won the lottery with this prize. Rules are not much ...
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued guidelines for pregnant women about exercise and diet before, during, and after pregnancy. With all the conflicting advice women are given about childbearing I hope this provides some clarity, but I don’t expect much to change. The guidelines state that women should not “eat for two” ...
Fat people have one more thing to worry about. “Being obese poses sexual problems” the headline reads, not mentioning they mean females only. What medical issues should women worry about — tissue damage? strokes? heart attacks? Nope, the problem is simply that they are not attractive enough to be worthy of sex. In France over ...
Dear Madame X, I saw an article on your website about BBW and it gave me hope. I am a large teenage girl and no one at school likes me. I ask my friends to ask boys whether they like bigger girls before I can talk to them but none of them say yes. I’ve ...
Want to hear something really gross? Really perverted? Some guys are into fat chicks. No, seriously. They have, like, a thing for them. The main stream media is just catching on, and is not sure what to make of it. BBW stands for Big Beautiful Woman. Plug it into your search engine and you will ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
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...
