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Audiences Hungry For A Female Hero

Audiences Hungry For A Female Hero

March 22, 2012 No Comments

Step down, Twihards, it’s time for evolution via the Hunger Games revolution. Let The Games begin! I don’t want to upset any Twilight fans, but the series boils down to a drawn out love affair that is not consummated for many moons. Bella and Edward meet in the first book and don’t have sex until…wait for ...

Souvenirs Of A Joyful Solitude

Souvenirs Of A Joyful Solitude

January 19, 2012 1 Comment

Patti Smith is an artist whose rejection of traditional femininity, combined with her iconic status, has had a tangible effect on women of the arts, as well as my generation. Patti Smith’s Camera Solo, a collection of the musician’s polaroid photographs published to coincide with a US exhibition of the same collection, are about the ...

Why I Love Kate Moss

Why I Love Kate Moss

August 10, 2011 9 Comments

I love Kate Moss. There. I said it. I’m out and proud with my love of Kate. She is constantly accused of being a drug-taking, slutty, bad mother and now her latest heinous crime is to install a gym and basement kitchen in her London mansion. She will be spending her own money on the ...

The Weekly Whims Of HatManJim: Are A Lot Of The Films Hollywood Produces Sexist? Yes. Maybe They Should Be.

The Weekly Whims Of HatManJim: Are A Lot Of The Films Hollywood Produces Sexist? Yes. Maybe They Should Be.

October 24, 2009 No Comments

A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts. Nicole Kidman has accused ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

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...

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