Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Twenty-two years ago, Marc Lepine walked down the halls of Ecole Polytechnique and killed 14 women, for the simple fact of their gender. That act, and this date helped define who I am, it made me embrace the word feminist when I had only taken a few tenuous steps in that direction. I was 20 [...]
Barbie. One word that strikes fear in some Bad Moms hearts while for other Bad Moms it brings back a flood of fond memories of dress-up and make-believe. Who knew Barbie could be so complicated and controversial? Oh who am I kidding, she always has been that way. For a toy based on a German [...]
I hate it when writers take what could have been an interesting topic and worthwhile discussion and turn it into a rant against something they apparently know nothing about. In her article, Is Sex Passé?, second wave feminist Erica Jong says sex has become boring because younger women are “obsessed with motherhood and monogamy” (…and [...]
My grandmother told me to learn to drive but to never learn to make coffee. She was an independent lady, an iconoclast really. But she couldn’t drive and that made her dependent on everyone. She also made a damn good cup of coffee and that meant she was always in the kitchen making coffee. I [...]
Last week, People magazine ran a story under the headline, Rachel Zoe ‘Thrilled’ With 10 Carat Push Present. There is so much to say about that statement that I’m not even sure where to begin. Rachel Zoe? 10 Carat? Push Present? After I rubbed my eyes, gave my head a shake and downed a shot of [...]
I haven’t seen the movie Mars Needs Moms. I did see a preview, when I took Emilia to see Yogi Bear one snowy afternoon when she really really really really wanted to go to the movies, Mommy, PLEASE (and believe me, Yogi Bear is not a movie that you only see under duress), and thought [...]
Back when Disney’s ‘Tangled’ was first announced as a film project, it took some heat for changing the name of the original fairy tale that it was cribbing – Rapunzel, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention – and for placing a male character alongside the titular Rapunzel as a lead and pitching [...]
So, you know how we were just asking whether or not our hair might be killing feminism? Which, you know, is a ridiculous question, because of course hair can’t kill feminism, unless it’s Kate Gosselin’s hair, in which case, it maybe could, but still. Anyway, the question is irrelevant. Hair isn’t going to be the [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15