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Some Foods Are Manlier Than Others

Some Foods Are Manlier Than Others

October 15, 2011 No Comments

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, ...

Modern Man Is Old Fashioned

Modern Man Is Old Fashioned

July 27, 2011 1 Comment

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. ...

Happy Families Include The Dads Too

Happy Families Include The Dads Too

June 8, 2011 No Comments

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 ...

Truthfully, Men Just Don’t Need Doctors

Truthfully, Men Just Don’t Need Doctors

April 23, 2011 No Comments

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 ...

Real Men Do Cry

Real Men Do Cry

January 24, 2011 No Comments

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 ...

The Weekly Whims Of HatManJim: Transvestite Beauty Queens

The Weekly Whims Of HatManJim: Transvestite Beauty Queens

December 12, 2009 1 Comment

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.

Quickie Sex Tip

Want a cheap, fun date? Stay home with a cheesy romance movie, popcorn, and a bottle of wine. You...

When Getting The Bill Doesn’t Add Up

On dates I still love a little bit of chivalry — but it goes too far when the restaurant...

Oh Harry! Getting A Piece Of The Royal Pie

There has been an upswing in royal fever on both sides of the Atlantic since last April. When Kate...

Tired Of Faking It

Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...

Getting Committed

It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I...

Quote Of The Week

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort...

Lazy Sunday Awful Proposal Post

  Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...

All About Men’s Underpants

My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...

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