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Men Intimidated By Twilight’s Female Gaze

Men Intimidated By Twilight’s Female Gaze

July 18, 2010 No Comments

Twihards are described as either insipid teenager girls or lonely middle-aged women. The movies have been universally panned by critics but perhaps they don’t see the films the way the fans do. Are they intimidated by the female gaze? The most noticeable feature about Edward Cullen is his flushed red lips, that is if you ...

Parenting Fail: The Right And Wrong Way For Kids To Dance In Public

Parenting Fail: The Right And Wrong Way For Kids To Dance In Public

March 3, 2010 No Comments

It’s no surprise that kids like adult music. I mean wouldn’t you pick Rihanna over Raffi? But there is a difference between dancing to grown-up music, and dancing like a grown-up. Especially in a public sphere like television or YouTube. It is every girl’s dream to dance on stage like the stars on TV. Yet ...

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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