On rare occasions, television does reflect real life. A new series that debuted on HBO last weekend, Girls offers a refreshing look into the lives of twentysomething women. From financial issues to terrible sex, Girls charters into unknown television territory, tackling the minefield of awkward, difficult yet essential struggles of coming of age in 2012. ...
No one will sleep with me if I’m fat. I’m sure that’s correct, because I’ve rarely seen a fat person engaged in an act of passion on a dating website advertisement. Or anywhere. Ah, but it isn’t true. According to expert advice, confidence counts for much more than perfection. In a clear reminder that men ...
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 ...
It’ official, nothing opens us up quite like a good ep of Sex and the City. Watching the series helps people become more comfortable talking to their partners and friends about sex, a new study reveals. Researchers from the Ohio State University explain both women and men are especially likely to discuss sex or sexual health after ...
Young women are not the only ones getting abortions. Women of the so-called Sex and the City generation are making the decision well into their 40s. Surprising new figures show that 8,179 women aged 40 and over have had an abortion, according to government figures reported by Daily Mail. Samantha Syndrome? That’s what the article ...
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni have a new baby born yesterday in New York. Nixon gets all the joy without the pain as Marinoni was the one to carry the baby and give birth. Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni is the new baby’s name and he has two older siblings that are Nixon’s children from before. The couple is ...
Samantha on Sex and the City is a role model. She is strong, assertive, sexy, and knows what (who) she wants and how to get it. But is the number of notches on her bedpost really something to aspire to?
Are you one of those women who rips of her high heels as soon as she gets home from the office and breathes a great sigh of relief? Have you wondered how the Carrie Bradshaws of this world do it without suffering? I know I do. Science has just proven that if you can get ...
Shoes and celebrities. Celebrities and shoes. I have often wondered why these two seemingly superficial things have so much power over so many women. But if science is to be believed then I should probably start paying more attention to celebrity news so I can increase my happiness! Dutch researchers studied women looking at both celebrities and ...
First of all, save your breath — I agree with you, Cougar Town isn’t a good show. It has its moments, but 30 Rock this ain’t. A teacher of mine once told me that you can’t judge anything properly without finding its saving grace. It took a little digging (“Scrubs is cancelled?”) but I think ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
