October 15, 2011
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, ...
July 27, 2011
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. ...
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June 8, 2011
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 ...
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April 23, 2011
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 ...
January 24, 2011
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 ...
December 12, 2009
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.
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