Matters of a Superficial Nature
BY ARCHER It’s a fact, humans are superficial beings, the degree of superficiality varying from individual to individual. When choosing someone to date, sometimes we’re too focused on the physical...
View ArticleWhat is it?
Is it a headdesk? Is it a facepalm? Is it a handcheek? No, it’s just the sourest of grapes. Apparently. Namaste. So when, for some reason, I am feeling rather uninspired and I can’t think of anything...
View Article“What Is It?” Part 2
Is it a headdesk?—is it a facepalm?—is it a handcheek? Heck, I don’t know what it is this time. You decide. – [Read Part 1] I should have just walked out. Except I couldn’t. I was going crazy wondering...
View ArticleYou Are Not ‘Marriage Material’
As a kid, I had a mild crush on a certain girl that I lived next door to. And by ‘mild crush’ I mean ‘severe obsessive infatuation’. I’d sit on the porch and watch for her when she came home and sit...
View ArticleOn Having Our Cake & Failing To Eat It
The protagonist that returns after an incredibly astonishing and enlightening stint in some outside country to find that many of his ways and means are irreconcilable with those in his homeland is a...
View ArticleThe Gospel Of My Delusion
Feminism. Bemused. Insomnia. In that particular order, the three words with which I have suffered the longest love-hate relationships. Today I’ll focus on the first, and I’ll get right into it by...
View ArticleThat Ain’t Yo Man, Woman!
Every few months I come across this exact scenario. A gorgeous, brilliant, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping woman will walk her weepy self into a group of “close friends” and share her woes. It’s always...
View Article#RaphLove: The Definition of Trespass
Credit: #KOT I’m sure by now, you’ve all heard the nasty stories about this blog’s good friend Rapho aka Tuju aka Raph Lover. The short version of it is that Ogunda(this guy who got booted from the...
View ArticleThey Rape You Because They Fear You
A teenage girl is jogging in her neighbourhood. A car starts following her. The car is full of boys. This is not the beginning of some day-time movie. This is something that happened just a few days...
View Article#MyDressMyChoice: Of Life Choices & Those that Question Them
How is this still a discussion? I’m genuinely curious and would like to get an answer about this. The basic argument here is that nothing, I repeat NOTHING, ever justifies violent acts that are not in...
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