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Shit Girls Say: Sexist Or Just Plain Silly?

Shit Girls Say: Sexist Or Just Plain Silly?

December 14, 2011 4 Comments

“First of all, ew.” “Do you know anything about computers?” “Could you do me a huge favour?” These are just a couple examples of the Shit Girls Say. The idea behind this popular Twitter feed has been turned into a YouTube video now gone viral. I know, it’s hard to deny. Women do say shit like this ...

Does No One Respect Privacy Anymore?

Does No One Respect Privacy Anymore?

November 10, 2011 No Comments

I  recently came across a post in which a man relayed the transcript of an argument a young married couple were having in a Burger King. It can be found on storify, a website “to make stories using social media.” Make of that what you will. The post gives a detailed account with commentary of the quarelling  newlyweds and ...

Maybe Kardashian Forgot To Look Past The Wedding

Maybe Kardashian Forgot To Look Past The Wedding

November 3, 2011 No Comments

After less than three months of marriage Kim Kardashian announced she is to divorce her husband Kris Humphries. Most of us were quick to assume the wedding was all a publicity stunt, but are whirlwind marriages really that uncommon, even outside Hollywood? Many young couples are seduced by the dream wedding perhaps not seeing past ...

Taming The Hair Beast

Taming The Hair Beast

November 2, 2011 No Comments

Women have waged a war against the drooling, rage-filled hair beast who cannot be reasoned with. The problem has reached such epic proportions that if we fail to act now, our dead ends may actually rise from Hades and try to bite us, turning us into hair-raising zombies. And we’ve all seen what a zombie’s ...

Kardashians Are Bad For Feminism

Kardashians Are Bad For Feminism

August 12, 2011 2 Comments

Gloria Steinem doesn’t like the way television is headed. The feminist icon was spruiking her new doco recently when she made a comment that will probably anger Kardashian faithfuls the world over. In not so many words, Steinem alluded to the fact that if Kim, Khloe and Kourtney were the new feminists, we’re all in ...

Hate Your Butt? Get The Pippa Lift

Hate Your Butt? Get The Pippa Lift

August 1, 2011 No Comments

Ever had a spare twelve grand lying around and felt perplexed about what to do with it? Look no further because the plastic surgeons of the United States have the answer for you. The perfect butt! And not just any butt — Pippa Middleton’s royal wedding butt. Princess Kate’s little sister has sparked a wave ...

The Big, Fat, History Of Curves

The Big, Fat, History Of Curves

September 16, 2010 No Comments

Christina Hendricks is being reduced to stock image status, Jezebel complained. Apparently The Telegraph used her to illustrate a story about how men choose their dates. However, while covering the same story, Jezebel used a photo of Beyonce, who held the title of Curviest Woman until a few years ago. Anyway, all of this got ...

If Sex Sells — It’s Porn

If Sex Sells — It’s Porn

August 25, 2010 1 Comment

Jenna Jameson has sex on camera, and she isn’t afraid to admit it. Sex tapes featuring Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson are making the rounds, and Spencer Pratt is threatening to release one of him and Heidi. They are not the first stars to have a “private” video hit the shelves. Paris Hilton and Pamela ...

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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