Getting dumped sucks. We all know that. We can all imagine (or remember) that sinking, hurt feeling in your chest. But a new study suggests that the pain in your heart is an actual medical condition. And it could have lasting effects. It’s called “broken heart syndrome” and yes, apparently, it does exist. The emotional ...
The media loves to report on studies that prove a common female stereotype. Lately it seems to be happening more and more, almost daily. Back in September there were a string of articles about a new study proving that women who make most of the decisions in a household have less sex. This disheartening news ...
On this Remembrance Day, we take a moment to consider the fallen. We think about the young soldiers that will never return home, but also the children that will grow up missing a parent’s love, the wives that live in constant fear and the husbands who are ashamed that they cry themselves to sleep every ...
Yet another sex myth has been debunked! As it turns out, men are not actually intimidated by vibrators. A study of over 3,000 Americans ages 18 to 60 found that it is only a myth. In fact, the only people who really think that sex toys scare away men are women! Thirty-seven percent of women ...
Women have been giving birth the same way since they were Neanderthals: through good-old natural birth. However, a recent change by the National Health Service (NHS) could make these old-fashioned vaginal births obsolete. The NHS plans to give all women the right to choose caesarean sections even if they are not medically necessary. At first ...
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. ~ Adrienne Rich
Canadian beavers are under attack. Our nation was founded because of the European obsession with our beavers. Men sailed over the ocean and traveled across the continent to get their hands on those soft, inviting pelts. Eventually, the explorers lost interest when they realized that the fur market had dried up, and now our economy ...
When men return from war (even a controversial one), they are often seen as heroes. For women it is sometimes a mixed bag. They have to fight to get into the army in the first place. Then, upon returning home, women are increasingly unable to find jobs. The unemployment rate for female veterans in America ...
Every man knows that if you don’t look like that underwear model on the Pierre Cardin billboard, you can still be “the funny guy.” You can still get laid even if you’re short, fat, balding and even a jerk as long as you can induce the ROFLs and LOLs. Right? Wrong. A new psychology study has ...
The car businesses is one of the most male-dominated industries. Men buy cars, sell cars, review cars, and fix cars. So where do women fit in? If I am a single woman with little auto-knowledge looking for a new car, what do I do? Finally, there’s a place just for me. VroomGirls.com is a car ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
