After watching movies like Taken and Trade, and reading the real-life details of the ongoing Pickton inquiry, it’s hard to think anyone would be a sex worker voluntarily. We assume that all sex workers are somehow coerced into the trade because a life of selling your body for profit is unimaginable for most of us. But a ...
People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me. ~ Princess Diana
As much as we’re anticipating the royal wedding, basking in the joyous and lavish occasion of two young people celebrating their union, we know that life as a princess for Kate Middleton will be no ordinary walk in St. James’s Park. Along with living up to certain royal responsibilities, like Diana, she will be subject ...
Last week I put the love of my life on a plane to half way around the world and I have no idea when I will see him again. It breaks my heart but I don’t have a choice. He just got a job there, and I have a job here. For the time being, ...
Do the handsome ones always get hired? Scientists wanted to find out, so they set up a test: We sent 5312 CVs in pairs to 2656 advertised job openings. In each pair, one CV was without a picture while the second, otherwise almost identical CV contained a picture of either an attractive male/female or a ...
Feminism fucked up. Ladies, it’s all over the news. Quit your jobs to live happier, healthier lives. Women with career stress have an 88% chance of heart attack and a 40% increase in cardiovascular disease, the BBC reported. As there is no study on the heart health of homemakers, we can assume that their lives are ...
Magazines like to give helpful advice about how to improve your life. They offer suggestions about your career, your health and your sex life. This advertisement hoped to capitalise on it all, but failed miserably.
Want to be a CEO? To make it to the top of your field? Rake in more than $300,000 a year? Don’t have kids (if you are a woman, that is). A survey of British head-hunters (the kind that gives you jobs, not shrink your cranium) found that most thought motherhood was incompatible with high ...
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...
