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When Exes Become Contesting Cavemen

When Exes Become Contesting Cavemen

December 9, 2011 No Comments

Here in the modern world, it’s nice to maintain healthy, adult relationships with people we’ve slept with. Whether it’s a colleague you had a not-so-secret-but-not-terminal fling with, or an ex who became a friend, or someone you once drunkenly intercoursed with at your friend Sally’s birthday party in Bangkok. Because we’re all sensible, forward thinking ...

Everyone Loves The Darcys

Everyone Loves The Darcys

August 31, 2010 No Comments

Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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