Like most people, I have been given many pieces of wisdom over the years by my parents. However, three from each of them have stuck in my mind through the years. Perhaps significantly, they differ in their nature. Firstly, my Dad’s. They were: 1. When driving, always have your speed adjusted before turning into a ...
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? ...
A girl brings a boy home for the first time. A beer-bellied father appears, looks at the boy and says “I have a shotgun and I know how to use it.” Or sometimes it’s “I have a gun, a shovel, and a lot of land upstate.” We all know the image: a protective father “protecting” ...
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~ Gloria Naylor
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 ...
Everyone knows you can’t build a house on crooked foundations, so why do people think you can empower only part of a family? Women in 20 Latin American countries are getting paid to help their families. They must attend diet and hygeine classes, and also ensure their children attend school and regular check-ups. The classes ...
Dads are dumb. We know this because commercials show us how they can’t clean anything, do laundry or cook without making a big mess. Mom rules the house, and Dad is just her hapless sidekick. But wait! What’s that there in the distance? Is it? Yes, it appears to be a competent man. Some of ...
If you had an illness that caused you to abuse your child, would you get help? Although it is often ignored, post-natal depression affects fathers, and can change their parenting. A new study show that 40 percent of fathers suffering from post-natal depression have hit their one year old, while only 13 percent of healthy ...
As a stay-at-home-Dad who handles the majority of the household and child-rearing responsibilities I take note of any article, news report or radio rant that puts men and housework in the same sentence. And the message I’m hearing as I mop the floor, or the article I read while spooning the baby some mashed this-n-that, ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
