Dear Madame X, I suspect that one of my female co-workers might have a crush on me. I think I like her but I’m not sure what to do or if it will get awkward. How do I find out for sure if she likes me? Crushing Dear Crushing, People often say, “Don’t dip your ...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has grown a beard and I hate it! Can I tell him to shave? He really likes it but I don’t know how long I can take it. Eyes Are Burning Dear Eyes Are Burning, Honesty is a good policy normally but you don’t want him to feel ugly. How ...
Girls like to talk, it’s official. New research looking into cell phone use in the context of relationships found that women call men way more than they are called by the man (or men) in their life. I can easily believe that. My husband never calls me. If you looked at our cell usage alone, it ...
Online dating is for everyone — heterosexuals, homosexuals, and apparently even married folk, so it’s no surprise that there are dating companies, like Stars in the Sky, that arrange dates for the disabled. What’s more surprising is that the trials and tribulations of disabled daters are now coming straight to British living rooms. Undateables is the new series ...
Just because a law against selling one’s eggs or sperm was enacted in Canada eight years ago doesn’t mean that it’s been either recognized or enforced. According to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, “No person shall purchase, offer to purchase or advertise for the purchase of sperm or ova from a donor or a person ...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend is obsessed with unicorns. She collects unicorn toys, and has pictures of them all over her bedroom. I think this is very strange for a 34-year-old. Does this mean she is crazy? Should I dump her? Unicorn Hater Dear Hater, Plenty of people have plenty of strange collections. There are ...
It’s a strange thing for me to love Charles Bukowsky, renowned hater of women. And yet from the first time I read his notorious 1978 semi-autobiographical novel Women, I did. It’s a chronicle of abuse and misery. Bukowsky’s character Henry Chinaski is a self-aware, utterly unromantic alcoholic who has cold sexual encounters with women. Chinaski ...
During a couple’s “honeymoon phase” usually the only thing on the menu is sex. But once this phase is over and your crotch is burning from over-stimulation, perhaps you start to focus on other parts of your relationship. Maybe you even find lame excuses to say no to sex. Supposedly, this is a phenomenon unique to ...
We know that a lot of women love cats. And we know that a lot of single women supposedly have far too many cats to replace the children and husbands they don’t have. But did you ever stop to wonder if it’s not singleness that causes cats, but cats that cause singleness?
For better or for worse, the popular franchise The Bachelor will come to Canada in the fall of 2012. Although it was only announced this past Monday, casting begins now. Let’s hope the one hunky man and his Canadian pick really fall in love and make it work — which would be contrary to the ...
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...
