The modern man is constantly applauded for “helping out around the house.” In fact, the younger the man is the more egalitarian the division of housework is in his relationships. While I do appreciate his new-found desire to pull his own weight, I hate the word used to describe it — “help” — as if cleaning ...
As a modern woman, no concept is more difficult for me to grasp asking for help. Some things are fine. I can ask for a shoulder to cry on or a book to borrow without any worries. It is only when I enter the realm of the “manly” that my tongue sticks to the roof ...
My partner is impotent. The medication he is on makes his penis small and tucked away, as if he is constantly cold. With the nicest attention it will peak its head out before limply pulling back. Sex is entirely out of the question. But this article is not about it. It is about me.
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...
