Karen Wu, California State University, Los Angeles For many people, there are few things more rewarding than crossing an item off a checklist. But what if the checklist is about your dream partner? And what if the checklist is wrong? “Relationshopping” is when you hunt for the perfect partner as if people were products. Online dating, now used by almost 40 percent of Americans who are “single and looking,” might be normalizing this tendency. Often aided by search filters, potential daters seek the perfect combination of attributes rather than focusing on the experience of being with a person. Relationshopping might…
Author: Pride Team
Our Woman Crush Wednesday is a popular Nigerian actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeind (or Omosexy as she’s popularly called). She is a leading Nollywood actress who has appeared in over 200 movies. In addition to her on-screen success, she has received numerous high-profile awards, launched a music career, and amassed an enviable fan base. The proud mother of four has also been applauded for her remarkable humanitarian efforts and has successfully become the most-watched actress in Africa. Appearing on the TIME 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013, she has used her undeniable influence to speak out against bad…
My Dear Daughter, As you go through life, you may find yourself working at a job you can’t stand. You may want to quit, but are afraid you’ll attract more of the same. My dear, we only have one life to live so do not waste it stuck in a situation you don’t like. However, while you are actively on the lookout for a better position, the best way to handle the position you find yourself in is to focus on all the positives you can. If you can find something to appreciate, even if it’s appreciating a regular paycheck,…
Pathik Pathak, University of Southampton If you were thinking that a librarian’s life was the one for you, you might want to think again. Secretaries and personal assistants, I’d look over your shoulder too. The robots are coming for your job. According to a recent report from consultancy firm Deloitte, these are among a number of occupations categorised as being at high risk of automation. According to an estimate in the Deloitte report, such jobs – which also include manufacturing – are on a collision course with obsolescence. In the UK, 10.8m jobs – or a third of the adult…
I scream to my wings, bud. Out of passivity that kept you tied down in coma. Out of your fallow expedition. Of the sedentary relax. Of the hollow whose superstructures are hard to climb. Build your body and bud. Out of the cemetery of your dead, and grow. I scream to my wings, flap in consistency and fly. In rapidity. In rain. From torpidity. With tenacity. Beleaguer your crawling days with fascinating skills in flight. Fly away from the land. For your core has grown. You are meant to fly. I scream to my wings, soar. With…
Holy Humour Bible Study Richard, my friend’s little grandson came home from Sunday School and I asked him what they had studied. His reply was, ‘Nothing.’ So I asked him, ‘Didn’t you study Jesus?’ Richard’s reply was, ‘No, he wasn’t even there.’ Sunday Quote With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg Sunday Joke Landlord A large, well-built man visited the vicarage and asked to see the vicar’s wife, who was well known for her charity.…
Reading 1 Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation; even at night his mind is not at rest. This also is vanity. Reading 2 Col 3:1-5, 9-11 Brothers…
Stephanie Liu, University of Alberta; Erin Manchuk, University of Alberta, and Shannon Ruzycki, University of Calgary Is it safe to drink alcohol and breastfeed? As physicians, we have always cautioned patients not to. As mothers, we look forward to the occasional glass of wine. We also know that drinking while breastfeeding remains a controversial and very personal choice, one for which many mothers find themselves judged by friends and family. Does beer increase milk supply? Historically, beer was made very differently than it is today. Beer companies marketed low alcohol beers to women to stimulate appetite, increase their strength and…
Sharon Adetutu Omotoso, University of Ibadan When computer technology made electronic communication possible, the “new media” emerged: email, chat rooms, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and so much more. It looked, perhaps, like a fresh new public space in which to represent women in new ways. But it has turned out to be just like old, conventional media. It emphasises gender norms and portrays women as sex objects, morally deficient, and vulnerable. The question this raises is: do we even need new media in African countries? Any country would be left aside if it tried to ignore the global force of…
Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford The peerless novelist and cultural commentator Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, never accepted the received wisdom about anything. In a writing career that spanned half a century – from the appearance of the first of her 11 novels, The Bluest Eye, in 1970, to that of her last essay collection, Mouth Full of Blood, in February 2019 – she unfailingly cast in new light both aspects of human experience and moments in American history that, in our complacency, we thought we already knew. Morrison was born (as Chloe Wofford) in the depressed Rustbelt…