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When Getting The Bill Doesn’t Add Up

When Getting The Bill Doesn’t Add Up

February 10, 2012 No Comments

On dates I still love a little bit of chivalry — but it goes too far when the restaurant servers decide that my male dining partner should get the bill. The assumption that the man should pay in the restaurant is archaic. The waiters don’t know what our relationship is and any assumption is just ...

Everyone Loves The Darcys

Everyone Loves The Darcys

August 31, 2010 No Comments

Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...

Certain Men Might Be More Likely To Cheat, But Most Men Are Faithful

Certain Men Might Be More Likely To Cheat, But Most Men Are Faithful

August 18, 2010 1 Comment

Another survey has come out looking and who cheats and why and  found that men whose partners make significantly more money than them are most likely to cheat. But let’s not forget that most men are faithful. The Effect of Relative Income Disparity on Infidelity for Men and Women study found: men with no income ...

What Sex And The City Teaches Us About Love And Money

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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