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Sesame Street For Grown-Ups Is A True Dud

Sesame Street For Grown-Ups Is A True Dud

September 24, 2010 No Comments

Sesame Street has been educating pre-school children for over 4o years. In that time there has been a lot of changes and a constant stream of celebrity guests, but the show was always been about the kids. I wonder if that is changing. A guest spot by Katy Perry was pulled after parents complained about ...

Katy Goes Topless But Leaves Cupcakes and Cream At Home

Katy Goes Topless But Leaves Cupcakes and Cream At Home

June 28, 2010 No Comments

Katy Perry has posed topless for Esquire magazine. She has made a career of modeling the 1950s, wearing floral frocks and pretty pastels. But now she has ventured outside the picket fence and is channeling Betty Page — complete with black leather granny panties and dominatrix heels. A classic pop star move, but I’m sure ...

How Katy Perry Can’t Dance (And Why I Love Her For It)

How Katy Perry Can’t Dance (And Why I Love Her For It)

June 21, 2010 2 Comments

Dancing and music videos go together like Fred and Ginger. Janet Jackson lead the rhythm nation and Britney Spears followed in her choreographed steps. But the women of the noughties are falling short, preferring poses to fancy footwork. But less dancing can only lead to better music. Hortense from Jezebel is saddened by this state ...

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...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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