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Hurrah For Amanda’s Anxiety!

Hurrah For Amanda’s Anxiety!

October 10, 2011 1 Comment

I’m not happy she has panic attacks, but I’m certainly pleased she’s being so open about it. Last week Amanda Seyfried admitted that she has been suffering from extreme panic attacks and irrational fears or worries. Everyone is blaming her star status. Understandably, the high pressure of being a celebrity, tight filming schedules, and guest ...

Drop Dead Gorgeous: Makeovers For The Afterlife

Drop Dead Gorgeous: Makeovers For The Afterlife

July 14, 2011 No Comments

Cosmetics brand teams up with funeral directors to beautify the afterlife. With the way our beauty obsessed world is, this was only a matter of time. Relatively new beauty brand Illamasqua is working with funeral directors Leverton & Sons to provide makeovers for the recently deceased. Promoting the slogan, “The final act of self expression,” ...

Bieber Fever Diagnosed By Scent

Bieber Fever Diagnosed By Scent

May 25, 2011 No Comments

Justin Bieber has now joined the ranks of a true celebrity, creating not cologne, but perfume, for his crying, screaming, crazy fans. With “Someday” on their necks, little girls who desperately want to call Bieber their own can smell as he wishes. Not only is he controlling his fans’ music, social, and personal lives, but ...

Preachy Princesses Give Us Words To Live By

Preachy Princesses Give Us Words To Live By

September 1, 2010 1 Comment

No one has ever accused Disney of feminism but these adorable videos illustrate exactly what these princesses are teaching our daughters about womanhood.

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...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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