It’s hard to feel sorry for people who don’t put in the effort — The age I am means I am currently witnessing the women in my cohort get married and have children. On two occasions, I have seen female friends strong-arm their long-term boyfriends into marrying them in almost identical circumstances. The first occurred when I was living in Washington, D.C., when a…

Why there was never any room on that door… — Ah, ‘Titanic’! James Cameron’s 1997 visual masterpiece. A beautiful, artistic, flower-child boy-man meets a high-spirited, intellectually curious, privileged, but trapped young woman. The romance the couple embarks upon changes them both forever. Rose overthrows the shackles of the oppressive class system that has stifled her self-actualisation and corralled her into…

An unholy guide to the strange world of performative piety… — I recently wrote a user-guide for those of us who like to tweet in good faith under our own names. It was some of my best work, if I may say so myself. Nearly every Catholic public figure or journalist has come in contact with a strange phenomenon: a plethora…

Romanticising ditching women for the priesthood is a tasteless, hurtful, and spiritually abusive part of Catholic culture — Imagine your college sweetheart breaks up with you. Imagine the hurt that would inevitably cause. You move on with your life. Fifteen years or so later, you realise your ex has become famous. Not only that, but he talks about your relationship and the subsequent break-up frequently and — publicly…

It has become popular in some darker corners of the internet — especially the so-called ‘manosphere’ — to rage against feminism and how it is allegedly responsible for societal decline. On further examination, however, people who decry feminism or call themselves anti-feminist aren’t objecting to every facet of feminism at…

Former kickboxer Andrew Tate has recently been banned off multiple social media platforms for creating violent, misogynistic content. His Tiktok videos contained troubling assertions such as that rape victims are to blame for their own assaults and that women are the property of men alongside discussions about beating and choking…

Before my interest in theology, I was an occasional dabbler in the thoughts and practices of the ‘New Age’ as well as a keen user of Instagram. Like many other women of my generation, I was oft swept up in fashionable but vague trends concerning my ‘wellness’, an umbrella term…

Transcript: The following video essay contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones TV show and the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. Valar morghulis, dear friends! Game of Thrones premiered in April 2011. The show was created by David Benioff and DB Weiss for HBO. It was…

What is dating you really like for them? — Do you know what it’s like to be in a relationship with you? Have you ever even thought about it? Do you have any idea what dating you is like for the other person? None of us can read minds, of course, but do you know — in your heart…