Helen writes at the Cast Iron Balcony. She’s a blogger, she’s a grinner, she’s a mother, she’s a sinner. She plays her music in the sun.     There wasn’t any buzz about IWD last week among friends, family or workmates. I didn’t even get an oversized email from the Dogs ...

[Post contains spoilers for Dollhouse episode 4, unrelated to the serial plot. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.] Hey Joss Whedon, Mr Feminist Icon dude, can I have a word in your shell-like? There are fields of endeavour in which the vast majority of the experts are women. Those women possess knowled...

It irks the hell out of me that the night before my day off I'm ready for bed early and then am up before the sun comes up when I could be sleeping in. A very bad habit I need......

Today’s Guest Hoyden is whoozqueen. Whoozqueen blogs at “Oohsome: Ooh, I’ve Got Something to Show You!”. Whoozqueen is a 39 year old crafter, gamer and rampant netizen, with a keen eye for the handmade and unusual. If she’s not roaming Azeroth, she’s playing with ...

but I clicked onto Sam de Brito’s blog anyway because I was bored. I skipped the whole ‘fat bottom’ thing and went to look at the post with the piccy of Julia Gillard (our deputy PM for our OS readers). Apparently Sam has had some great female bosses. Lucky him. However, the venom ...

For once here’s some relationship advice which talks about the way the men and women are TRAINED from an early age to act differently in response to life’s annoyances and pains. That’s a refreshing change from all those articles which try and paint gender-differences in emotional r...

Many thanks to those who voted in our inaugural Troll-Off competition. Troll-Off Results: ~~~ Gold Medal, with 35% of the vote: No. 7, A. “god is punishing them for imbred sodomy” Lavey. Lavey may have had the advantage of topicality pushing him up the ratings. In the Silver position com...

A couple of weeks ago, I was intrigued by an article in The Guardian, by columnist Libby Brooks, which discusses recent publications of erotic fiction written for and by women, focusing particularly on In Bed With, an anthology edited by Kathy Lette, boasting contributions from a number of well-know...

Hello to my fellow Blog Talk Radio Hosts & Listeners! Tonight will be my first bitchfest. If all goes well, I would like to continue to have these bitchfests as a series! If anyone has a favorite pet peeve or bitch, feel free to hit me up with a message and/or comment & I'd love to give you ...

complaining about how stores put up holiday decorations earlier and earlier every year is neck-and-neck with the over-or-under toilet paper debate for the title of “most tiresome pet peeve kept alive by syndicated newspaper advice columnists and lite-fm morning djs.” but if you want to g...