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What To Be Unthankful For This Thanksgiving

What To Be Unthankful For This Thanksgiving

November 25, 2011 No Comments

So I don’t have bad karma every Thanksgiving I must say I love the spirit of this holiday. The idea is similar to Christmas and Easter in that you get together with family you may have not seen in awhile to catch up, eat and celebrate some time off work. Now that I have pacified ...

Happy Thanksgiving Sunday Post

Happy Thanksgiving Sunday Post

October 9, 2011 No Comments

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM MORNING QUICKIE Although there is still a lot that needs to be done, women in Canada have it pretty good. Here are a few of the things I’m thankful for as a Canadian feminist: The right to vote; The ability to go where I want, when I want; The belief that rape ...

Pumpkin Pie Is The Baker’s Viagra

Pumpkin Pie Is The Baker’s Viagra

November 25, 2010 No Comments

Men are turned on by pumpkin pie. No, not in a creepy American Pie kind of way, but the scent has been found to be one of the most… stimulating. “The number one odor that enhanced penile blood flow was a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie,” said Dr. Alan Hirsch, Director of Chicago’s Smell ...

Lazy Sunday Post: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving

Lazy Sunday Post: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving

October 10, 2010 No Comments

Happy Thanksgiving! (No! Not American Thanksgiving — the proper one). Unfortunately not all of us can be in our glorious homeland to celebrate the day. To help put you in the mood for turkey and pumpkin pie, I present to you A Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving. For the 95% of our readers who are not Canadian, ...

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

October 12, 2009 No Comments

Like emancipation from the British, Thanksgiving is one of those things that Canadians saw was good and borrowed from the Americans. And just because we stole it doesn’t mean we don’t do it in our own special way. In honour of this beloved holiday, I would like to give thanks to Ellen Page for creating ...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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