Reading Time: 7 minutes A man’s only as old as the woman he feels. – Groucho Marx I suppose that it’s the job of every psychologist to analyse the deep and hidden impulses that underscore the actions of men and women. Their job is to enlighten us, to differentiate between what is inherent to our genome, from what […]
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An Open Letter To All Women
Reading Time: 7 minutes A Facebook user passed judgement on a film he hasn’t seen, a blog post he hasn’t understood, and a woman’s condition he knows nothing about. We must all agree that, on the whole, women are in a much better position than 70 years ago. However, we must also acknowledge that the views held by many […]
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A Loving Father’s Thoughts On LGBT Rights, Feminism, And Intersectionality (1): The LGBT’ers
Reading Time: 7 minutes Part 1 – LGBT And All That The modern Feminist Movement and the Gay Rights Movement share a common enemy – hegemonic patriarchy – Shawn Donnelly The fact that I thought that LGBT was a rock band, similar to AC/DC, just shows you how loving and innocent I was, thinking that all these […]
The Artful Shredder Strikes At Sotheby’s
Reading Time: 5 minutes If we now have to distinguish between true and fake art, in the same way as fake news, life is really beginning to feel like a lottery. It’s one thing having doubts about the validity of news items appearing on Facebook, but if you cannot trust Sotheby’s, then who can you trust? One thing’s for […]
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Death In The Family – Falling Into The Abyss Of Love, Distress, And Freedom
Reading Time: 5 minutes Following my father’s death, in 2012, I felt no grief because I had thought about his passing away for years, analysing the feelings I would have and coping with them. Was it anticipatory grief, without the symptoms? Was it a sense of detachment from my parents? Was I challenging moral standards, where grieving death is the […]
Brett Kavanaugh – Carry On… Lying In America
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s an impossible position for sexually abused women to be in. Either they keep quiet about something that happened years ago because men won’t believe them, or they report the abuse straight away so that men have the opportunity not to believe them, at the time of the attack. Not forgetting the fact that many […]
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One “D” Or Two? – Bilingualism And “Le Brain”
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bilingualism isn’t all fun, I’m afraid. There are certain words in English that I loathe, and there are certain words in French that I hate, when I’m forced to spell them. I still haven’t found a way of remembering that the French word “adresse” and English word “address” are spelt differently whilst, apparently, meaning the same thing. […]
José Mourinho’s Constant Wrath Lands Him In Dante’s Inferno
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a Manchester City supporter, I won’t cry too loud about the troubles José Mourinho finds himself in, at Manchester United. I’m referring to laughing until I cry, of course, and the fact that we must always show respect for the opposition, no matter who they are. Showing respect is a quality that Mourinho doesn’t […]
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La Fortuna Del Sorteggio – The Luck Of The Draw
Reading Time: 4 minutes The catastrophe that has occurred in Genoa, with the collapse of 200m of motorway, makes me realise what a lottery life is. I, like others, have been several times on that part of the A10 motorway, that connects Italy to France. It could have been others, it could have been you, it could have been […]
Between Good And God
Reading Time: 8 minutes The biggest problem that causes such a violent opposition between secularism and religion is, not so much in the moral values of the Holy Scripture – which, if not distorted, are much closer to our moral values than you might feel it safe to think – but the interpretation of their meaning, their politicisation by […]