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Can Babies Be This Smart?

Can Babies Be This Smart?

November 30, 2011 No Comments

The behavioural psychology masterminds at the University of British Columbia have been conducting an intensive study on a group of intelligent infants. They are determined to discover what to stance babies take on anti-social behaviour. Their sophisticated research began with a puppet show. Separate groups of five- and eight-month-olds were forced to sit through amateur puppet productions by ...

From Protester To Pageant Queen: The Intertwining Of Beauty And Feminism

From Protester To Pageant Queen: The Intertwining Of Beauty And Feminism

November 7, 2011 3 Comments

Clara Belle used to be a beauty pageant protester. And now she is beauty queen. “A few months ago I would have been far more likely to be standing outside the Miss World venue protesting at the event than attending it,” she wrote. But when she entered the Miss London pageant in April to report ...

Court Bans Man From Having Sex Because He’s Not Smart Enough

Court Bans Man From Having Sex Because He’s Not Smart Enough

February 7, 2011 No Comments

A 41 year old man with “a vigorous sex drive” and a steady boyfriend has been ordered to a life of celibacy by a British judge because his IQ is too low. The judge found that Alan should not be allowed to have sex because he does not understand the health risks associated with his ...

Men Need To Stop Acting Like Apes

Men Need To Stop Acting Like Apes

December 31, 2010 1 Comment

Why can’t men admit that they are intelligent beings? That they have choice and control over their actions? That they are not just guided by instinct like apes? Quite simply, it’s because they want to have an excuse for bad behaviour. I’m talking specifically about sleeping around and those men who cheat on their partners. ...

What Makes A Perfect Marriage? Smart Woman And Stupid Man

What Makes A Perfect Marriage? Smart Woman And Stupid Man

March 2, 2010 No Comments

Swiss researchers have come up with an equation for the perfect marriage after studying just over 1,000 couples. It’s interesting, but is yet another example of how statistics have a real lack of reality when taken out of context.

Cheating Is For The Dummies And Religion For The Paranoid

Cheating Is For The Dummies And Religion For The Paranoid

March 1, 2010 3 Comments

If your guy cheats, dump him. Not only is he an unfaithful bastard, but he’s also probably not very bright. Scientists have found a positive correlation between intelligence and monogamy. There is also a link between men with a lower IQ and belief in God. The theory is that remaining faithful to your partner is ...

University Lectures Likened To Lap Dancing Clubs

University Lectures Likened To Lap Dancing Clubs

September 24, 2009 No Comments

Mack // A professor who compared lectures to lap dances has been accused of not respecting women. Critics says he needs to retire, and students are making it a point to avoid the uni until he is forced out.

Beautiful Women Turn Men Into Idiots

Beautiful Women Turn Men Into Idiots

September 13, 2009 1 Comment

According to results of a study done by Radboud University in the Netherland men become stupid around women they are attracted to. The study had men do a memory test, then interact with male and female members of the research team, then repeat the test. The more the men fancied the women the worse their ...

Define Marriage

Define Marriage

September 13, 2009 No Comments

Two days before her wedding Kerry Robertson got a knock at her door. It was social services, informing her that she could not get married, as she “did not understand the implications.” According to the Daily Mail, she has “mild learning difficulties.” The 17 year old and her fiance, 25-year-old Mark McDougall, had already reserved ...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

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