Category Archives: Negativity

Things I believed in when I was 12 — but no longer do

By caniceleung | Published: July 2, 2010
Writing a feminist column, I got the occasional irate reader. Most of them are nitpicky and miss the point, while others are straight up incomprehensible. Up until this point, my favourite one was a rambling, angsty Facebook message from a first-year male, white, university student from Calgary, who said there should be men’s studies if [...]
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File this one under rejects: Geisy Arruda, Gender and Morality 101

By caniceleung | Published: November 11, 2009
The paper didn’t think this was publishable. I don’t often write satire, so I either laid it on too thick or not thick enough. I thought it was good, anyway.   Women are just so reckless — college gals like Geisy Arruda should learn to cover up, knowing that her male counterparts transform from mild-mannered men into [...]
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Recessionary times

By caniceleung | Published: February 10, 2009
At first I chuckled when I read this New York magazine article, thinking it was some unapologetic “What, too soon?” parody on the incessant recession-related articles. How could it not be, with gems such as from this one “Ross Tillman”? My girlfriend goes to job one and job two every day; if only I had so [...]
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