Women Hate Pick-Up Artists. Save Your Money, Bro.
I’m a live an let live kind of girl. There are philosophies that I abide by that are defined by equality, kindness and respect. I kindly understand that there are highly insecure men who feel like...
View Article8 Lessons I Learned from Drag Queens That Fashion Models Could NEVER Teach Me.
I get that regardless of the well documented and profoundly negative effects images of women in media have, they probably are not going to go anywhere anytime soon. So, if my self-esteem is going to be...
View ArticleEmails from Justin
I thought George Stroumboulopoulos was Canada’s boyfriend, but I think he might have some competition from Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. I can’t remember how it happened, but I joined the Liberal...
View ArticleBeauty Queen Feminist: Why I Turned for the Judges.
Once, I defended the two faces of the female experience** while wearing a bikini in front of 5,000 high rollers. I was a beauty queen, belittled and questioned for my decision to participate. But, when...
View ArticleDid I just say out loud “Miley Cyrus gentrified twerkin”?
… And it’s all because twerkin isn’t new. But, it somehow took Miley Cyrus to unapologetically popularize it and thrust booty-bouncing into the mainstream consciousness. I don’t know where everyone was...
View ArticleBoycotting the Sochi Olympics a Win for Russian Propaganda?
If you feel that watching the XXII Winter Olympics in Sochi somehow makes you complicit in the human rights violations of Russia’s government, you’re wrong. And, to put it mildly, your protest is...
View ArticleThat’s Not How You Threaten Canadians, Netflix.
At first I felt like CBC was bullying Netflix, but now I’m not so sure. Turns out that the CRTC is reviewing their broadcasting rules to update them for this century. Which is about time. At one point...
View ArticleWhy You Should Not Opt Out of Watching Reality TV
There’s more to reality TV than just backstabbing and backbiting, but you have to stop saying that the genre is destroying TV and tune in to find out… Reality television isn’t a desperate wasteland...
View ArticleAnyone else think the 3-boobed lady is a promo campaign?
I couldn’t go two clicks without the story of Jasmine Tridevil popping up in my feed Monday. The explosion of social sharing made the story of the Tampa, Florida massage therapist who spent $20,000 to...
View ArticleSo you posed as a homophobic bully & people were mean to you?
I woke up Wednesday morning to text messages alerting me to an acquaintance who had revealed he was impersonating infamous Toronto mayoral candidate, Doug Ford, on ello for little over a weekend. Then...
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