I like a good curry. There are some very good curry restaurants in London, and I miss them here on my soggy and culinarily reduced island. But, while I enjoy, as I say, a good old blowout with a curry, they, to borrow a phrase from middle England, don’t really like me very much. Yes, ...
It’s 2011 and although an incredible amount of our daily tasks and duties are taken care of by the click of a mouse, when it comes to relations between men and women, especially romantic, we are not quite as advanced as we like to think we are, according to results from AskMen’s Great Male Survey. ...
Everyone knows you can’t build a house on crooked foundations, so why do people think you can empower only part of a family? Women in 20 Latin American countries are getting paid to help their families. They must attend diet and hygeine classes, and also ensure their children attend school and regular check-ups. The classes ...
It’s a (very) commonly repeated factoid that men don’t go to see their doctors anything like as often as women see theirs. I say “factoid,” but of course there are statistics. I don’t know what they are, but I believe that they show pretty conclusively that women go to the doctor far more often. What ...
Unfortunately a lot of men think that they are not allowed to cry and that it is a sign of weakness — but they couldn’t be further from the truth. The Irish Times interviewed men from 19 to 76 to find out why men cry and it seems they get teary for just the same ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
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...
