How dawn happens
I write this having received hopeful news of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, while cities in Russia are being hit by drones, just a few days after a famous Russian warlord was killed by his own...
Category: Mental health
Male loneliness can’t be cured by “being better”
The go-to solution for male loneliness, usually expressed in sarcastic tweets (which I am guilty of, I’ll admit), is that men simply be better human beings. It’s true that as women in the Western...
Looking skyward, looking inward
This week, Northrop Grumman's nineteenth commercial resupply services mission for NASA blasted off from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It was the end of an era. The first stage of the...
“The outfit is never what matters”: why groping doesn’t make you a real man
When I read about this sentencing scandal in Italy, I asked myself how many times I’ve been groped in my life. I turn 40 next year and the truth is, at this point, I don’t even remember —...
The Huw Edwards scandal has been unedifying all round
Considering nobody is entirely sure what precisely has happened, the BBC presenter scandal has left nobody covered in glory. Starting with The Sun, a Murdoch paper that has never hidden its disdain...
My sexy, tempestuous, dark America
On July 4th this year, I made up a random list of what I treasure about the United States of America, my beautiful adopted motherland. Nobody noticed the list that much — there’s a lot happening...
Bluesky thinking on social media and mental health
Out of all the potential Twitter replacements that have been popularized since Elon Musk took over, Bluesky is my favorite. It is decentralized and currently invite-only, which obviously means that...
You are not my savior
This week, I wrote a Facebook post about how unpleasant it is when smelly men hit on me in discourteous ways. A man immediately messaged me to explain what I was doing wrong and how I could prevent...
The luxury of not giving a fuck
I never asked to be a woman. The more spiritual people I know will probably disagree. “Oh, we all agree on the life we lead before we get to this world.” Maybe, there’s something to it. Still,...
How does George Santos continue to surprise us?
One of my favorite, so to speak, people in Washington D.C. is finally facing criminal charges. That’s right, congressman George Santos stands accused of violating campaign finance laws and other...