In all its live-action glory… — Disney added colour to my childhood in so many ways. I listened to my cassette soundtrack of ‘Pocahontas’ so much it broke. I still listen to it on YouTube now. I used to pine for October when the next Disney feature was scheduled to come out. As an adult, I…

So why do they push it so hard on women? — If you haven’t heard of the pop culture podcast Sentimental Garbage, then you are missing out on a good thing, indeed! The latest episode of the show was one of the best. It discussed music legend Kylie Minogue. Kylie has always been one of my favourite pop stars, ever since…

Over the past two days, I’ve experienced one of the most unusual exchanges I’ve ever encountered on social media. Whilst engaging with another user, an individual named Danica Priest started to respond to my tweets. Ms. Priest is a prominent anti-housing activist in the southwest of England. She appears to…

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…