I don’t need feminism because: • I don’t view all men as ‘inherently misogynistic.’ Men are not bad, women are not wonderful, there are just good people and bad people and good and bad in all of us. (Important note: the current feminist movement is very divided and plenty of […]
Continue ReadingA few years ago I heard a couple of teachers say to me; ‘education right now feels like a factory. You take em in, churn em up, then spit em out.’ (Along those lines anyway). In other words, students come to school, memorise a bunch of facts and exam papers, […]
Continue ReadingI’ll be honest, I’ve never really understood people’s problems with immigration. Immigrants, migrants, expats, whatever. I just don’t see what’s wrong with it. My logic is that this world is full of land, and humans should be allowed to go wherever, but we’ve just created all these laws and divisions […]
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If you’re black and you have white friends who greet you as ‘my nigger’ or ‘ma nigga’, then whether that bothers you or not is between you and your friends. I can understand people wanting to avoid using this word even as a form of endearment, due to its historically […]
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In no particular order, here are my 10 favourite musical artists with honourable mentions at the bottom. I mostly like funk, soul, soft rock, pop and R&B; hence most of the artists I enjoy come under this musical category. Prince. One of the most incredibly gifted musicians of the 20th […]
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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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