It’s no secret that young girls feel the pressure to be thin every day. They receive mixed messages about accepting who they are and changing who they are to conform to an unattainable ideal. The heavy burden is weighing down on them and keeping them up at night, according to a revealing new study. Researchers ...
Waking up in the morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated may be more important than we thought — especially for women. Their relationships depend on sufficient sleep. Women who experience insomnia before bed are at risk of developing problems in their marriages, according to new study results. Researchers tested the sleeping patterns of 35 couples over ...
Women are sleeping less, but need it more — making sex and other high energy activities near impossible at night and even during the day. It seems like men are always ready to go when it comes to sex. We try to keep up, but wind up not being “in the mood” or just too ...
People often blame feminism for the changing relations between men and women, but with the republishing of a Victorian house management book it is clear that not much has changed in the last 150 years. Enquire Within Upon Everything was first published in 1856 and contained information on everything from etiquette to laundry tips to ...
Teens and texting — I hope there is something beyond alliteration tying the two things together in the media. SMS has replaced rock ‘n roll as the number one corrupter of children.
Feminist power houses Arianna Huffington, Cindi Leive and Naomi Wolfe have decided that sleep is a feminist issue. If this is the next great battle for women I think feminists should just call it a night.
The BBC reported today on a study examining how sharing a bed affects people’s health and state that bed sharing is “bad for your health”. Perhaps I am biased, having grown up in a bed-sharing culture, or perhaps the BBC did not report on the important points of the research, but I cannot see why ...
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...
