After you get engaged, it’s easy to become bogged down with planning the wedding, if you choose to have one. But while being bombarded with emails about chair covers (seriously, never give your email address to anyone in this industry), occasionally it dawns on one that hey, one is going to be married after all ...
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, ...
What happens when a child strongly identifies with a sex that doesn’t match their own body? Zach Avery may have been born with boy parts but he knew he wanted to be a girl by the age of three. Although initially Zach can dress up as a girl without being betrayed by his “boyness,” puberty ...
We need a new car. Our current one is pretty old (though it works ok) but for boring administrative reasons to do with our island, we have to get a new one. Anyway, this has meant that Mrs Lobster and I have been heading out to garages, walking around forecourts with a critical eye, kicking ...
You know the saying “It’s not the journey, it’s the destination?” Well, my hair story is a journey. A journey of self-discovery. I know what you might be thinking. What the hell kind of First World feminist, skewed self-awareness and failed attempt at philosophy is that? This piece is about much more than hair. It’s ...
Men! You can be pretty too. I’m sure you know that by now. It’s 2012, after all, and as your burly provider/protector credentials lose value, your value as an object of beauty increases. Nowhere was this more apparent this week than in Milan, where men’s autumn/winter fashions sauntered down all the catwalks under that watchful ...
It seems that there is a growing number of educated British Muslim women who are unmarriageable and left to spinsterhood. Educated British Muslim women are being passed over for marriage in favour of women with more traditional values from the family’s home country. Muslim women in the UK whose families hail from the Indian sub-continent ...
As if being a bitch wasn’t proof enough, science has now said that women are indeed, the jealous bitches we know we are. The culprit? Our darned unevolved evolutionary psyches. A recently published study from the University of Ottawa has confirmed that when faced with a sexy woman, other women act like a pack of ...
So I don’t have bad karma every Thanksgiving I must say I love the spirit of this holiday. The idea is similar to Christmas and Easter in that you get together with family you may have not seen in awhile to catch up, eat and celebrate some time off work. Now that I have pacified ...
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if women controlled the power structure? Now you can find out. A new Google Chrome extension developed by Danielle Sucher lets you gender-bend the entire internet. Jailbreak the Patriarchy switches male names to female names and hims to hers. It is advanced enough to understand which words, like chicks, ...
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...
