This poem is addressed to All those patriarchal pigs and crackbrained clerics Who use the whip of male power to punish dissenting women. You keep asking women to stop …
Tag: morality
Morality, Opinion and Our Way of Life
With the focus shifting from the improvement of man, the need of the hour is to deliberate on these vital aspects of human life — morality, virtue and ethics.
Homosexuality and Africa: A Philosopher’s Perspective
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: The Enduring Appeal of the Defiant Femme Fatale
It may have had a plot full of holes and some excruciating dialogue, but 'Basic Instinct' persists thanks to the sheer charisma and star power of Sharon Stone.
The Idea of a Lovable God
God has been humanised, the idea of a fallible formless entity inundated and the search for the truth lost somewhere in between.
With ‘The Right to Sex’, Amia Srinivasan Wants to Revitalise Feminism
Amia Srinivasan’s new essay collection is less a manifesto than an attempt to think through the concerns of contemporary feminism.
‘Hellbound’: An Introspection of Faith, Fear and Fanaticism
The show, based on the moral free fall of society in the face of the unknown, critiques the hypocrisy of human nature.
Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man’ 150 Years on – Sex, Race and Our ‘Lowly’ Ape Ancestry
Published 150 years ago, this work is shaped by Victorian-era sexual and racial stereotypes. But at a time when other evolutionists stressed humanity’s uniqueness, Darwin emphasised our 'lowly nature'.
The Problem with Balance: My Issue with Centrism
Balance is not a weighing scale where the good levels out the bad. An approach such as this leads to false equivalence, which underplays the wrong and overestimates the …