One Christmas I finally got Holiday Barbie. After begging my parents for years, I could breathe a sigh of relief. The only problem was she was too pretty to play with. I couldn’t even take off her elaborate white dress. Already, I wanted to take my Lego back out of its box. What reminds me ...
Ever read lists of top things women should know or try in their lives? Schmutzie tells us why these lists are bullshit. I have a burr under my saddle today, and it is in the shape of articles whose titles contain the phrase “every woman should”, such as: –”Twitters Every Woman Should Follow” –”10 Things ...
The women of Sex and the City may love their cosmos, but it doesn’t mean that they didn’t knock back a few beers once in awhile. Despite what Molson Coors might think, some women thoroughly enjoy a nice cold one. With dwindling beer sales, the beer giant’s latest target is women. They have high hopes ...
Anytime a random product gets marketed for women, companies come up with the grossly unimaginative idea of making it pink. The latest example of that is Molson’s new pink beer, Animée. But here’s the problem: women don’t like pink. Or at least they don’t like that the colour now means that anything pink means it’s ...
At some point it was drilled into our brains that pink is for girls and blue is for boys. You would think that we’re now past the point of associating colour with gender, but an intense controversy over the new J. Crew ad says otherwise. In the ad, a mother paints her son’s toenails pink ...
We are all familiar with the image of a chick with a gun: oiled up, wearing an American flag bikini and sporting a big-ass bazooka. But for some things, bigger isn’t better. Women want guns that can fit into their handbag as a method of self-protection. And they are buying more than ever before. There ...
“Acceptance: just the way you are” was the message as a huge group of elementary and high school students wearing pink t-shirts recently took over a shopping mall in Vancouver to celebrate International Anti-Bullying Day. Bullying is wrong in all forms, but the pink shows that homophobia was their target with this number. This is an especially ...
How sweet, people coo, leaning over the baby carriage. The next question is inevitable: Is it a girl or a boy? A Swedish couple have refused to identify the sex of their baby — causing an international furor, with some accusing them of child abuse. Pop is a healthy two and a half year old ...
Abu Dhabi is introducing a “Lavender taxi service” exclusively for women. The pink and purple cars will be driven by women and include a monitor to fine drivers who edge above the speed limit. Way to put the breaks on feminism in the Middle East!
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
