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Attention Post-Pregnancy Ladies: Eat Your Placenta!

Attention Post-Pregnancy Ladies: Eat Your Placenta!

March 27, 2012 No Comments

The idea of a woman eating her placenta post-pregnancy is nothing new, but January Jones, our beloved Betty Draper (now Ms. Francis), makes it sound hip. Or at least a little less gross. She may have been wary at first, but Jones now tells People.com that she recommends every new mom eat her placenta — ...

Tupperware Parties Attempt A Comeback

Tupperware Parties Attempt A Comeback

May 11, 2011 No Comments

It’s certainly not my idea of a party. Actually, it’s up there on my “Worst Nightmare” list.  Instead of consuming drinks and leaving feeling buzzed and lightheaded, you’re stuck at a females-only party carrying home a bag full of Tupperware. Word on the BBC street is that Tupperware parties are going to make a comeback. ...

Lazy Sunday Post: Mad Men And Witty Women

Lazy Sunday Post: Mad Men And Witty Women

September 12, 2010 No Comments

Pick-up lines are routinely terrible. They only work if you fancied the person to begin with, and then you ignore the nonsense they are spewing. It’s hard to believe that things used to be worse. However, this rarely left the women tongue-tied.

Emmy Awards Cheat Sheet

Emmy Awards Cheat Sheet

August 30, 2010 No Comments

The television event of the year night is over. The Emmy Awards drew in millions of viewers, but if you’re like me you didn’t bother. In case you need to wax poetic over the old water cooler, here is your Emmy award cheat sheet. The Opening The Fashion January Jones Mindy Kaling Anna Paquin (Some ...

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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