This past weekend, while I was visiting my parents in St. Catharines, I watched televised scenes of police cars on fire, thugs in black smashing storefront windows and cops in riot gear beating and arresting protesters. After I realized it wasn’t a movie (what? I had just woken up), that it was happening in my beloved Toronto, my stomach knotted up in […]

I love vintage ads. They certainly didn’t beat around the bush back then. They told you, in very frank and explicit terms, why you needed to buy this product — you were too fat, you were too ugly, you were single!
In these times of subliminal messaging, where the misogyny behind an ad is hidden in subtext and “art”, […]
Last weekend, I went to a club to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The music wasn’t particularly moving me (my friend, Catherine, kept scowling over a house remix of Oasis’ “Wonderwall”), so I started to people-watch.
The key to people-watching is subtlety – you don’t want to be too obvious about it, and you don’t want to leer, stare or ogle. But even the […]

Like most women my age, I have always harboured fantasies about a uniformed man coming into my place of work, literally sweeping me off my feet and carrying me off into the sunset. In An Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere dons a white naval uniform and does exactly that to Debra Winger. We all remember it — it’s stored in our mental filing cabinet, […]
Monday, April 19:
I know what has happened to your sexual life. This cruel disaster is called impotence.
Um, I think the Chinese, Haitians and Chileans would disagree with what you consider a ‘disaster’.
Bonus email!
Sexual impotence in men is one of the most poorly explored medical impairments.
Yes, there are only three medications for this on the market. Why stop there? […]
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