Why do people keep insisting women can’t be funny? It’s getting to be beyond a joke. “Very few female comedians can pull off funny funny,” muses a ridiculous article in the Herald Sun, Melbourne’s highest circulating newspaper. The article, a review of Jen Brister’s stand-up comedy, continues by informing us the show is “surprisingly, quite ...
Girls like lots of things — unicorns, rainbows, serenades, and love stories. But as women, we grow out of those childish things. Or do we? Enter the Serenading Unicorn, that latest viral video campaign to leap it’s way around the web. In his latest video, he teamed up with Sarah Silverman to produce an old ...
Celebrity books are often complete wastes of paper. The star usually has nothing to say, but it willing to stretch that nothing to 300 pages if it means a nice, hefty cheque. Sarah Silverman recognizes this, and starts The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee explaining that this is exactly why she is writing ...
Comedy Central has cancelled their only show with a female lead. Goodbye Sarah Silverman Program and hello Battlebots! Why is it so hard for comediennes to hold their own in the major leagues with the men? Is it because they can’t keep their eyes on the balls? The show has been on the brink ...
The most sought after video on the internet is Kylie Minogue’s ad for Agent Provocateur. It has over 350 million hits since YouTube launched. While sex appeal takes top spot, hope and humour round out the top ten. “Proof” from 2001 aims to prove that Agent Provocateur is the best lingerie in the world. Kylie ...
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...
