The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. A new Czech study has concluded that men tend to emulate their father’s decisions with their own lives, especially when it comes to infidelity. Men have been known to idolize their fathers throughout history. Daddy is the one who teaches them how to be men, how to ...
You know how after you dump a guy sometimes you think back on them and realize what unmitigated jerks they were? You wonder not only what you saw in them, but how you missed all those giant red flags. For the Elins and Sandras out there, Morning Quickie presents a list of things to avoid.
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Tiger Woods wants you to forgive him. He is going to get that forgiveness by appearing on your TV and being chastised in a voice-over by his father, who has been dead since 2006. (Video after jump) In the voice over his father says: “Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive, to promote discussion. ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
The country is divided. Sister is pitted against brother, husband against wife, Barbie against GI Joe, asking the question on everyone’s minds: Should Tiger Woods be forgiven? The media is keen to turn his personal tragedy into a gossipy referendum on the sexes. Headline News (HLN) had a whole segment about how men think Tiger ...
It is impossible to turn on the TV without seeing a parade of scantily clad women with thick make-up tearing up about their relationship with Tiger Woods. As more and more women come forward people are beginning to notice that they are all white. Is Woods racist? He has a very white, blonde wife. Swedish, ...
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...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
