Beyoncé is the most beautiful woman in the world – People magazine told me so. (I’d take it with a pinch of salt since they also saw fit to crown Bradley Cooper the “sexiest man alive” in a world where Ryan Gosling lives and smoulders.) And beautiful Beyoncé tells us that since becoming a mother, [...]
A rather curious posting appeared over on the Atlantic’s entertainment pages this week. Titled Jack White’s Women Problem, it set out the case against the former White Striper, Raconteur, Dead Weatherer and lately Blunderbussing solo artist as a man waging a personal war against the ladies. White, its author insisted, unleashes vitriol on any woman [...]
Can you judge a magazine by its cover? Or to put it another way, should you judge a society by the images it circulates, or by the laws it enacts and the customs it lives by? These two covers of current American magazines might mistakenly be seen as an indictment of the hypocrisy and shallowness [...]
Every episode of HBO‘s Girls so far has featured an awkward (read: raw, honest, refreshing) sex scene. First, there was Hannah with her hands around her ankles being asked to play “the quiet game”. Then came Marnie (no pun intended), cringing while Charlie attempts to “make love” to her. “Hey, look at me. Look at [...]
Earlier this week, CNN reported on a new social networking site called Invite for a Bite. The concept is to match women with platonic lunch or dinner partners so that we can avoid the shame and loneliness of eating alone. Except, some of us love eating alone. My preference is to bring along a book [...]
Anti-abortion campaigners will stage “kerbside vigils” in more than 50 towns and cities around the UK on Saturday to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act’s implementation. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) says supporters will form “chains” on the kerbside and carry placards “which bring home the reality of [...]
The Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as “The Blonde”, nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he chooses to describe her like this in his columns. Perhaps, because in our society, and particularly in the world of male one-upmanship, “blonde” has connotations of beauty, sex appeal and [...]
Of all the statements made by this week’s self-proclaimed locator of the G-spot, Adam Ostrzenski, my favourite without contest has to be his devastating conclusion: “It’s not easy to find.” Ostrzenski, a cosmetic gynaecologist and director of the Institute of Gynecology in St Petersburg, Florida, examined the anterior vaginal wall in the body of a [...]
Within the next few months, the US marines will usher women into roles which, for the entire 236-year history of the corps, have been held exclusively by men. The announcement by General James Amos marks yet another milestone in the advancements of women in the military – advancements which, until this past decade, have been [...]
