Senior women in Ontario are receiving inadequate care, according to a five-year study. The study, called Health System Use by Frail Ontario Seniors, was carried out by St. Michael’s Hospital, Women’s College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Studies. It revealed a three-headed problem: Women live longer than men, creating larger numbers of ...
Sweet Jennifer Garner has terrible karma. Everyone knows that there are no good roles for older actresses, and then she goes and steals one of the only parts left. It has been announced that she will be playing Miss Marple. The character was described by Agatha Christie as: “rather like some of my grandmother’s cronies ...
The Tempest was Shakespeare’s swan song. It is about an old man at the end of his life watching his daughter begin hers. It is one of the Bard’s great roles for older men, along with King Lear, Richard III, and practically any other lead he wrote. Shakespeare is only part of the problem. There ...
I’m afraid the time has passed when old women, no matter how magical, are acknowledged as having any value beyond their future as compost. — Writer to the Stars
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...
