Vogue is finally doing something about the prevalence of underage and underweight models in the fashion industry. Nineteen of the magazine’s worldwide publishers have joined together to make a pact to ban models who have eating disorders and any model who is under the age of 16 from appearing in the magazine. The new standard ...
Teen TV seems to be on steroids lately, especially when it comes to shows with female leads — too bad it isn’t all actually about the women, though. Television aimed at teenage girls has become quite the phenomenon lately. With Pretty Little Liars, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Gossip Girl, and The Vampire Diaries, ...
People are constantly complaining about the state of teenagers today, yet hardly anyone is brave enough to delve into their world and try to find out what’s going on. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, by Dr. Mary Pipher, does just that. Through her work with adolescent girls as a clinical psychologist, Dr. ...
Should teens be allowed to spend the night together? What if the context was a parent-supervised sleepover party? One mom feels conflicted about why she won’t let her son invite girls to the frequent sleepovers that the family hosts. Her husband is fine with it, the girls’ mothers agree and her teen sons are more ...
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 the eyes are the windows to the soul, then why not remodel your tiny panes with some floor to ceiling action? Wide-eyed contact lenses have been in Asia for decades but have just made the leap to the New York Times thanks to Lady Gaga. But they could make you blind, experts warn. Lady ...
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...
