On Friday, an Ontario news network landed in hot water with some of its customers. CHCH was airing its morning News Now segment when a hardcore porn scene cut in. The clip lasted for about one minute and while some viewers laughed about the incident on Twitter, others were offended. The Hamilton-based broadcaster has since ...
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. ...
I’ve never seen more than five minutes of a Real Housewives show but I was excited for the premiere of the Vancouver version — Vancouver is my hometown and I wanted to see how the other half live. I was about half an hour into the two (!) hour premiere and already bored with all ...
Online dating is for everyone — heterosexuals, homosexuals, and apparently even married folk, so it’s no surprise that there are dating companies, like Stars in the Sky, that arrange dates for the disabled. What’s more surprising is that the trials and tribulations of disabled daters are now coming straight to British living rooms. Undateables is the new series ...
We all know that toy advertisements use a lot of gender stereotypes in their commercials. Girls get Barbies, clothes, makeup and rainbows. Boys get guns, war, action and loud noises. This is nothing new. But this website is new. A new site lets you “mash up” boys’ and girls’ toy commercials so that you can ...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and I was like, “Maybe I should talk to him,” and Rayanne was like, “Go talk to him,” so I walked over and your friends were all looking at me and I was like, “Hey,” and you ...
Is romance dead? You would think so from seeing the prolific over-sexualization of women in music videos and gratuitous sex scenes on television and film. Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez are only a few artists out of many that come to mind when I think of songstresses whose fashion motto is “barely ...
Santa gets all the credit. He hears what people want for Christmas and personally delivers it, but I bet Mrs. Claus is the brains behind the whole operation. This year it’s time for Mrs. Claus to share in some of the glory. While Santa is off doing his thing and eating all the cookies ...
Considering the first episode of Pan Am involved a flight attendant (Laura, The Clever One) being recruited to work for the CIA, I hoped for lots of deconstruction of Cold War propaganda and such like. No luck. Kate (The Pretty One) runs away from her wedding in a less-than-compelling flashback sequence. This is meant to ...
See that table over there? That is natural selection at work, my friend. They don’t know that they’re a new breed of woman. They just had a natural impulse. To take flight. ~ Ted, Pan Am
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
