In the relatively few years I’ve lived on this strange planet I’ve managed to devise a simple formula to get people to listen to me. In order to achieve full, mouth-foaming hysteria just simply pick one of the following topics and set it motion: sex, religion and politics. But let’s be realistic here, while everyone [...]
Archive for June, 2009
18 Jun
Me VS the mob…
Or not quite. This (unexpected) post was inspired by having (unexpectedly) read all of Sathnam Sanghera’s If You Don’t Know Me By Now, or The Boy With The Topknot, as it is now apparently called. I found myself – unexpectedly YET AGAIN – warming to the author and finishing it in the space of about [...]
16 Jun
Getting the ladies on-side
Feminism, in its modern incarnation is just gosh-darn confusing. The ‘second wave’ of the ’60s and ’70s gave way to a much larger and more diverse ‘third wave’ of feminism. This has been bad (misunderstanding of what feminism is now supposed to represent by men and women alike, due to the lack of a definitive [...]
7 Jun
Veils, Headscarves, Hijab…
A’rite people, it’s Keladry of Mindelan comin’ atcha again with more blurry unfocused… (Unsure as to why I began in that manner). I wanted to discuss the veil and hijab in this post. I have been intending to write about this for some time now, but kept lacking in time/willpower. Here goes. Firstly, the misuse [...]
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