My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in that, many of us would think. This report also claimed that men actually gain from being such fibbers. Again, this sort of declaration possibly isn’t going to shake the earth on its axis. But what was ...
Psychology and criminal sociology are littered with extremely sexist theories. Everyone is familiar with Freud’s “penis envy.” Other insulting theories include Cesare Lombroso’s idea that female criminals are less evolved than men and that a woman’s face (AKA ugliness) can tell you if she’s a criminal. But nothing takes the cake like Otto Pollak’s book The ...
Dear Madame X, I told a couple of little white lies to my girlfriend to avoid some fights and now she thinks I can’t be trusted. Specifically, I didn’t tell her about going to a strip joint, or about chatting with a female friend on Facebook who happens to be my ex. I have never ...
If a men lies about something to get you in the sack, is that rape? What about if he lies about his race or religion? A court has decided that one man must spend 18 months in jail for lying to a woman about his background before they slept together.
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
