It seems that there is a growing number of educated British Muslim women who are unmarriageable and left to spinsterhood. Educated British Muslim women are being passed over for marriage in favour of women with more traditional values from the family’s home country. Muslim women in the UK whose families hail from the Indian sub-continent ...
Like a song set on repeat, we keep hearing that Brad and Angie are not getting married until everybody else can. Gossip magazines and tabloids: stop suggesting that they’re planning a big fat Brangelina wedding. But I admit, I share their desires for a world where marriage is an equal opportunity institution. Despite its legal, ...
If any word relating to women has been through the blender, housewife is at the top of the list. It has survived a vicious and brutal war where definitions were pitted against each other and finally came to a compromise to ensure the word would live on in perpetuity. Let’s measure up our opponents. Our ...
God’s wife was erased from the Bible, a British theologian has discovered. Back in the day before Muslims and Christians, God was called Yahweh and he was worshiped along with his wife, Asherah. At least according to Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a lecturer at the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. “After years ...
Want a long, stable marriage? The trick is to marry an optometrist, agree to have two male children and SMILE! Take pains to avoid any kind of personal problem or health issue. And ladies, avoid the military at all costs. Anneli Rufus has compiled a list of scientific studies that predict divorce. It’s a fascinating ...
Staar, aka Leslie Zemeckis, would rather be a mistress than a wife. Is it any surprise then that rumours are swirling that her director husbands wants to quash her book, Staar: How to Live Like a Mistress (and Reap the Rewards!)? Her cabaret show has run for several years now, and she’s famous for the ...
Housewifery is all the rage, as women long for a time where they are lauded for their ability to make a bed. Sandra Tsing Loh says that since we’ve been sharing the load, housework has become “the labor of a mediocre colleague whose performance could be better.” She wants a traditional wife in her home, ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
