So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all the supplies and equipment – sanitary, sartorial and vehicular – that a campaign of this length and intensity seems to require. We’ve read the usual range of confusing and contradictory books, we’ve thought, argued and remained ...
With summer on its way, there will be an onslaught of Hollywood blockbusters created to entice audiences to the theatres. Most of these films rely on the usual stereotypes to carry the story: the new film What to Expect When You’re Expecting is no different. In the movie, men have a great disdain for fatherhood ...
Jay-Z has vowed to stop calling women bitches and degrading them in his song lyrics after the birth of his baby daughter. In a poem he wrote to the young Blue Ivy he writes: “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped ...
When women are pregnant all the attention seems to go to them, which is fair enough, but we need to remember that fathers are just as important and should be just as involved in health care and hospital appointments. Midwives have had to be told that they aren’t paying enough attention to male partners and ...
Were you aware that all men are pedophiles, with the potential to abuse little girls at any moment? I sure as hell wasn’t. But a preschool with parent-helpers is being attacked for allowing men to take little girls to the bathroom. Aren’t they parents to little girls and boys too? “Perhaps when my daughter is ...
Your husband may think he’s not ready to be a father, but once he is, his body will clue in and make sure the job is done right. Researchers looked at 624 men in the Philippines for 4.5 years and discovered that they had lower levels of testosterone after the birth of their children. Why? ...
Dear Madame X, My penis is unhealthy. When it gets up it won’t stay up and then she cries and I feel terrible. My lady and I are trying to have kids and she wants them real bad. I want to have sex. I’m only 35. Should I take Viagra? Is the cheap Canadian stuff ...
Since women are now outpacing men in higher education and breaking through professional barriers, it’s clear that the traditional idea of “division of labour” is out the window. Parents are fighting to stay above water to support their family and, most of all, to spend time with their family. We’ve known all along that women ...
Ideological warfare is raging. Abortion debates fill the news every day. Women on both sides are yelling. But, wait, where are all the men? When men and abortions are discussed alongside one another, it is often by anti-abortion groups like the Knights of Columbus. Their argument is that men are hurt emotionally and psychologically when ...
Why is it that in this day and age men still don’t get involved with their children? I recently spent two lovely weeks with a beautiful newborn and her parents. They are excited by her every little movement and spend hours staring at her to see what she will do next. Even her vomit is ...
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...
