As you look out of your hotel window across the sea-side town, you smile nervously at your girlfriend. “What do you think?” you ask, taking her hand. Only instead of her hand you take a stylus and poke at a screen. Your girlfriend is a Love Plus+ character but your vacation with her is real. ...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has been playing this computer game where he has a relationship with one of the characters. It is not a side line to the game but the whole point of the game. He buys her flowers, takes her to movies and showers her with affection in the game. He is spending ...
A Japanese man has married his girlfriend. They met playing Love Plus, a dating simulation game. The catch is that she doesn’t exist outside the game. (Video after jump)
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...
