The Bechdel Test, or how I learned to stop worrying about it and love character development
Catreece Macleod, as a writer, considers The Bechdel Test, and why the exercise is currently pointless, and what it would take to really make it relevant.
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The feminists’ great “equality” lie
The dictionary definition of feminism falls apart when you start examining feminism in the real world. Della Burton uncovers the seething roil of insects under their log.
Psy – Gentleman
From time to time we publish a humorous piece. 10 years on and this video continues to amuse. In this song K-Pop artist Psy claims to be a gentleman but watching the music video makes it clear that he is nothing of the sort. Kudos to Psy. It’s also worth noting how the Korean women …
Man Up: a poetic response…
We’ve all heard the phrase, but few actually know what it means; fewer still demand to be heard after being told, to “Man Up!”
Valentines Schmalentines!
Whenever Mardi Gras rolls around, it takes me back to 1981 when I actually spent a four-day weekend in New Orleans checking it out. 43 years later, I’m not up for that sort of revelry anymore, but I do wonder if the throngs still chant “Show your tits!” whenever a young lovely is in the …
Apollo – God of Incels
There are many characters from Greek mythology who displayed involuntary celibacy, but perhaps none more famous than Apollo, the god of rational thought. Jungian psychologists view Greek gods and goddesses as archetypes – themes that appear not only in mythology but also psychologically and behaviorally in the lives of men and women. Apollo was the god of …
Husband’s sexual obligation to wife is matter of life & death
Modern gynocentrism teaches that sex is a privilege, but it wasn’t always so. It was once a duty, backed by shame and punishment of men who didn’t measure up for wives.
