Years and years ago, I used to publish music reviews on this blog. They were usually my most engaged-with posts, albeit before "engagement" was as much of a buzzword as it is now. But the reason I posted those reviews was not for engagement purposes. I was at an important moment in my life, passing … Continue reading Review: Norman F-cking Rockwell
Tag: misogyny
(TRIGGER WARNING) On rape and sexual assault
I don't care who reads my blog. I have a lot of family who reads this, many friends from back home and here and other places, many relatives whom I don't know very well, and complete strangers too. I don't care about social sensitivities at the moment - because this is something that needs to … Continue reading (TRIGGER WARNING) On rape and sexual assault
Not all things are meant to be forgiven and forgotten
Do we honestly find it so easy, as a society, to forgive people like Chris Brown simply because he's a celebrity? Or is there something deeper, a misogynistic tendency embedded deep within a society that has grown to deem it acceptable? Let me answer that: it's both. We live in the kind of mass culture … Continue reading Not all things are meant to be forgiven and forgotten