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”, […]

A friend re­cently sent me an ar­ti­cle called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a re­sponse by Huffington Post colum­nist Lea Lane to the ques­tion she is of­ten asked in the years fol­low­ing the death of her hus­band: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much?
While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]

Over brunch with some girl­friends to­day, the con­ver­sa­tion turned to on­line dat­ing, as it so fre­quently does when you get a bunch of sin­gle girls to­gether. We all have pro­files on a cer­tain dat­ing site and shared our dat­ing hor­ror sto­ries. It re­minded me of a re­cent ex­change I had with some­one on the site. It’s so au­da­ciously head-shaking […]