Feminism wants women to have the right to sexual freedom, be able to wear revealing clothes without being slut shamed or victim blamed, and to embrace female sexuality rather than repress it and hide it away. Feminism states that men constantly objectify women by viewing them as sex objects, depicting […]
2017
All my blog posts from 2017.
Why I don’t agree with #BlackLivesMatter
Note: this article was written in 2017 and my views on this have since shifted. Click here for an updated post I wrote in 2020. ‘Malcom X!’ he called out. ‘Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?’Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him – ‘I […]
Free Will vs Determinism
In Philosophy, there are two conflicting schools of thought that try to explain human behaviour. Are we totally in control of our actions and our environment? Or is all behaviour the result of external factors and causal events that we have no control of? Modern Psychology and Neuroscience has indeed […]
Top 10 Favourite TV shows
In no particular order these are my top 10 favourite TV shows, and favourite character from each show. Family Guy. Seth McFarlane’s satire on American society, pop culture jokes, silly humour that makes tears pour down your cheeks – FG is comedy gold. The cutaways are legend. The characters are […]
Capitalism vs Socialism
The reason this is called ‘Capitalism vs Socialism’ and not ‘Capitalism vs Communism’ is that in practice, socialism and communism are not the same (although originally Marx and Lenin used the terms interchangeably). (Note: this post provides quite simplistic explanations and I’m not an expert on political systems. This is […]
Female Privilege
Feminists often claim that women are so oppressed and that it’s so hard to be a woman and that men have it so much easier. I don’t see how this is empowering at all; telling people that they are constantly oppressed (when they’re not, not in the West anyway) is […]