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Tonight I spoke on the phone with Joe Burton, the president of Mystery Room Ltd., and I was honestly blown away by our conversation. He apologized right away for the posters on the TTC, and said ...

https://bellejar.ca/2014/08/16/ttc-posters-pt-ii/

Dear Toronto Transit Commission, I am writing with regards to the following poster found in some of your subway cars advertising “Mystery Room,” which is apparently a sort of spooky role-pl...

https://bellejar.ca/2014/08/11/an-open-letter-to-the-ttc-please-remove-these-posters/

We need to talk about your recent article in the Globe and Mail. Specifically, we need to talk about the fact that you have cast yourselves as allies and yet are doing far more to hurt the causes...

https://bellejar.ca/2014/04/15/an-open-letter-to-tom-mclaughlin-and-joshua-sealy-harrington/

Dear David Gilmour, As a woman writer I’d like to say thank you. No, honestly, thank you. Thank you for being privileged enough, culturally tone-deaf enough, and even just plain stupid enough t...

https://bellejar.ca/2013/09/25/an-open-letter-to-david-gilmour/

Dear Fug Girls, I like you. I like you a lot. I’ve been reading your site for, like, probably ten years now. I remember the days when Jessica wrote X-Files recaps for Television Without Pity (a...

https://bellejar.ca/2013/02/23/its-okay-to-feel-weird-about-your-pregnant-body/

Margaret Wente wants me to know that I don’t care about my son. Well, not my son, specifically; she thinks that I don’t care about any boys. Or, at least, any “real boys”, whatever that m...

https://bellejar.ca/2012/11/23/how-gender-stereotypes-are-messing-with-boys-education/

Dear Nicola Kraus, So! I understand that you have discovered the one single method of parenting that works for everyone and you are proselytizing this fact via the Huffington Post. Well, that is ...

https://bellejar.ca/2012/09/18/another-day-another-angry-making-article/

Dear Ms. Fairyington, Before we start, can I just say that you have an awesome last name? Your last name is totally rad. It has the word fairy in it! I bet you hear that a lot. Anyway, just wante...

https://bellejar.ca/2012/09/01/512/