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2018

All my blog posts from 2018.

What Makes For Good Ethics?
2018, Philosophy

What Makes For Good Ethics?

My most recent Netflix binge was of a show called The Good Place, a comedy based around ethics and Moral Philosophy. It features a woman named Eleanor who wakes up in the afterlife and is told she is in ‘the good place’; not a stereotypical Abrahamic vision of angels and […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 16, 2018April 19, 2023
Anxiety Bites
2018, Mental Illness, Psychology

Anxiety Bites

Let me explain what it’s like to live with anxiety. Thoughts start racing, hands start shaking. Stomach starts aching, legs are swaying. Rapid blinking. Struggling to stand up straight because my body has become so heavy I might collapse. Everything becomes exaggerated; fears start taking over my mind. Noises are […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 16, 2018April 17, 2023
BOOK DEBUT COMING SOON!
2018, Personal, Writing

BOOK DEBUT COMING SOON!

Next month I am publishing a Kindle e-book titled ‘Every Last Psycho.’ It will feature two dark YA novellas: one is called ‘Every Last Thought’, and the other is called ‘Psycho Girl.’ A brief summary of both is below. Every Last Thought Sixteen-year-old Tess Davis suffers from schizophrenia, triggered six […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 14, 2018October 22, 2020
Discussing Characters on Mad Men
2018, Books Films Music TV, TV Character Discussions

Discussing Characters on Mad Men

Yesterday I finished this show that I have been watching for the past six months. Mad Men is a period drama set in the 1960s about men and women working in a high profile advertising agency. Its an incredible TV show that is character driven and focuses on human psychology, […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 12, 2018April 18, 2023
2018, Books Films Music TV, Film Reviews

The Genius of American Psycho

American Psycho is not a movie/novel about a killer. It is about the vapid, self-absorbed yuppie culture of upper class stock brokers living in 1980s America. It is about the fact that they are so consumed by the mass consumerism of their lives; obsessed with booking reservations even when not […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 10, 2018October 19, 2020
It’s Good to Give Less of a Shit.
2018, Philosophy

It’s Good to Give Less of a Shit.

What do you care about? What really matters in life? Is there a need to get so wrapped up over the little things that you lose sight of what’s really important? Of course not. I care about my writing, my music, my sobriety, and the people I love. That’s it. […]

by: The Rational FemalePosted on: June 10, 2018April 19, 2023

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About The Rational Female

Zarina Macha (The Rational Female) is an award-winning independent author of twenty-one books and a commentator on modern culture. Since 2017, she has examined feminism, race, and mental health with a focus on rational inquiry and social responsibility. Her writing and video essays explore the tensions shaping modern gender relations and contemporary society.
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