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      10 Favourite Episodes of Community

      Discussing the Awful Ending of Dexter

      Rating TV Show Endings

      Reviewing Troubled Blood

      Cuties and the Sexualization of Children

      Maleficent vs Sleeping Beauty

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      What A Real Women’s Movement Could Be

      Feminist Fragility

      Maleficent vs Sleeping Beauty

      Proof That Feminism is Anti-Female

      How Feminism Has Lied to Women and Men

      It’s Perfectly Okay Not to Be a Feminist

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      Daenerys and Walter White: Same Characters, Different Shows

      Why Game of Thrones Ended Perfectly

      The Genius of Game of Thrones Characterization

      Jon Snow: The Prince Who Was Promised

      Sansa Stark: Girl Becomes Woman

      Why People Love Game of Thrones

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      How To Be Less Self-Absorbed

      A Culture of Self-Deprecation

      A Lesson in Empathy

      The Freedom of Adulthood

      Good vs Toxic People

      Us vs Them

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      What’s My Political Compass?

      Why you SHOULD NOT vote Tory in the UK election

      Weed Should Be legal

      Abortion doesn’t care about your feelings

      Conservative Snowflakes

      Is Conservatism the New Counter-Culture?

  • Psychology

      On Being Sensitive

      Understanding Mental Illness

      How to Spot a Psychopath

      In Which My Situation Feels Ridiculous

      Alcoholics Anonymous vs Smart Recovery

      Are Personality Disorders Real?

  • Writing

      Interview with Petrina Binney

      So, here we are.

      THIRD NOVEL COMING SOON! (5th published work)

      Plot vs Character-Driven Stories

      Review of Anne by Robert Fanshawe

      Changing the Way I Blog

  • Young People

      Advice to would-be artists

      University wasn’t for me.

      Generation Y Me

      Facebook’s False Friendship

      Same-Sex Schools?

      Can young people be in love?

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Counter Culture vs SJWs

By zarinamacha February 27, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Politics

In the 1960s, better known as the Swinging Sixties, change was sweeping the Western world. The rise of the Hippie Movement. The contraceptive pill. Free love. Don’t trust anyone over 30. The counter culture represented the young people opposed to their parent’s conservative views of the world. They were against […]

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Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life?

By zarinamacha February 24, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Politics

Personally, I don’t think this should be a debate. I don’t even think this should be a thing. The very term ‘pro-life’ is ridiculous to me. But let’s look at both. Pro-choice means you agree with the mother’s right to have an abortion if she doesn’t want to have a […]

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Sexual Objectification?

By zarinamacha February 19, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

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 […]

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Why I don’t agree with #BlackLivesMatter

By zarinamacha February 16, 2017April 17, 2023
2017 / Racial Issues

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 […]

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Free Will vs Determinism

By zarinamacha February 13, 2017April 19, 2023
2017 / Philosophy

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 […]

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Top 10 Favourite TV shows

By zarinamacha February 10, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Books Films Music TV / My Favourite...

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 […]

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Zarina Macha

Zarina started this blog in 2017 to document her general opinions and thoughts on life. Originally on Blogger, she moved it to Wordpress in 2020, and hasn't posted any content since 2021. She is currently updating the blog and plans to resume posting content by the end of 2023.
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    The Struggles of Being an Anti-Woke Person of Colour

  • March 28, 2021

    Diversity in Fiction

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    What A Real Women’s Movement Could Be

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    10 Favourite Episodes of Community

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    Discussing the Awful Ending of Dexter

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