Most controversy about video games emerges from violent content. Catherine, the newest game for Playstation 3 and XBox 360, is sketchy for wholly different reasons. The premise of this adventure game is that the protagonist, a thirty-something called Vincent, is unhappy in his five-year relationship with Katherine. She wants a wedding ring; he won’t give ...
From the Royal Wedding to movies like Bridesmaids and Something Borrowed and back to classics like My Best Friend’s Wedding and The Runaway Bride, we have been shown what true love and marriage are supposed to look like since the dawn of the movies. But they will never come close to the real thing. Chick ...
A British soldier in combat called his pregnant girlfriend and proposed to her on the answering machine. Unfortunately he got the wrong number. He accidentally left the message on the machine of a woman called Diane. Couldn’t call last month but you know what it is like out there. I will be back in a few ...
When people say they want a job before they get married I usually think it’s an excuse and that really they just don’t want to make a commitment. But with this recent recession I’m starting to see their point — when you literally can’t pay (or just barely make) the rent each month, wanting ...
Men don’t understand women. Women train their boyfriends to behave the way they want. It’s all a bit nuts, if you ask me. One men’s magazine has said that women have brainwashed men into behaving certain ways and doing things for them. What do we think about this? Read on.
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The wedding industry has added yet another ‘essential’ to the list of overly expensive, unnecessary items couples need to buy before they can feel they are doing it right. The engagement ring for men, or mengagement ring as it is being called.
Driving along Barrenjoey Road, you see a series of roadsigns with an apparent proposal to “Jennifer.” Sweet, until you realise this denizen of Bigola, NSW, Australia was punked, in the worst way.
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
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...
