With summer on its way, there will be an onslaught of Hollywood blockbusters created to entice audiences to the theatres. Most of these films rely on the usual stereotypes to carry the story: the new film What to Expect When You’re Expecting is no different. In the movie, men have a great disdain for fatherhood ...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at first but after a while I can’t stand it. Why does this keep happening? Macho Man Lover Dear Macho Man Lover, Macho men have a lot of attractive qualities mixed in with the unattractive ones. All ...
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment of my gallstones, I thought to myself for the hundredth time that hour: Why did I eat all those sausages? Well, why did I do it? I’ve had the gallstones for a while and I know ...
We all know that toy advertisements use a lot of gender stereotypes in their commercials. Girls get Barbies, clothes, makeup and rainbows. Boys get guns, war, action and loud noises. This is nothing new. But this website is new. A new site lets you “mash up” boys’ and girls’ toy commercials so that you can ...
As a stay-at-home-Dad who handles the majority of the household and child-rearing responsibilities I take note of any article, news report or radio rant that puts men and housework in the same sentence. And the message I’m hearing as I mop the floor, or the article I read while spooning the baby some mashed this-n-that, ...
I read in the press this week that the previously popular theory that the male human chromosome was gradually disappearing (known as the “Rotting Y” theory) has recently been debunked by research. Apparently, some monkeys to whom we’re distantly related turned out to be just as manly as us, or something, and this shows that ...
This phrase may be uttered more often by women than by men, and it’s not just because men are so tough and macho. Although it’s possible for men to underplay the pain they feel in the name of preserving their masculinity, researchers suggest there’s something much deeper underlying the difference between men and women when ...
It’s a sad fact that men still don’t look after themselves properly. Sure, we check for lumps on our nuts now and again, and have our glands probed by a chilly-fingered nurse in our Well Man exams; but as Dr. Larry Goldenberg, head of the department of urologic sciences at Vancouver General Hospital and the ...
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
While the world has been busy obsessing over female hormones and growth, we have missed out on a huge problem affecting us in a different way. Forty percent of men over the age of 45 have a testosterone deficiency. Uh oh. Aside from the expected irritability and loss in strength, almost all of the symptoms ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
