Supporting heterosexual marriage is not, and should never be, about dismissing gay marriage. Throw in a casual denial of the severity of slavery and you’ll find yourself in a well-deserved political shit storm. Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum learnt this the hard way. The pair, and a host of other politicians, recently ...
Dear Madame X, I am a divorced man and my 12 year old daughter lives with me. She is a lovely, bright vibrant girl but she has started to worry too much about her appearance lately. This began around the time I suspect she found my online porn collection. There was nothing particularly weird there ...
If a middle-aged woman lives with her boyfriend and has no children is she still fit to run the country? With Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, being 48-years-old, childless, and living with her divorced dad boyfriend of 4 years, that is a question that is heating up in Australia.
To show his support for marriage, David Cameron is proposing a half billion pound tax break aimed at lower-income married couples. It works out to £150 a year. He hopes this will reduce the number of single parent households in the country. Familiar with fiction, JK Rowling has taken aim at the Tories for their ...
Mick, Morning Quickie
A female soldier in Britain has won a legal battle for claims of sex and race discrimination that forced her to quit her job. She was a single mother who was unable to find childcare on a few occasions, something seen as unacceptable in the military life. The problem with her situation was that, as she ...
Research in Australia has shown that “non-residential parents”, that is, mostly the divorced dads, don’t have enough involvement with their kids’ schools. They recommend teachers do more to involve dads. This is good in theory, but seriously, whose fault is this? If the dads want more involvement it’s up to them to ask for it.
Q: Are any women bad in bed? A: Yes, except on television. Thank God I have experts like Mrs. Flores to convince me just how terrible all men are in the sack and explain what I need to do Right Now to fix my obvious inadequacies.
The Other Man
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...
