You Secret.ly Hate Women
The Secret app has brought out an ugly side to people I know.
Politics & Feminism
Commentary on current social affairs. Intersectional feminism examining questions of gender, sex, sexuality, caste, class, race, religion & other discriminators.
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20 Steps: A Digital Love Story
1. He sends her a carefully worded to sound casual-but-smart message. 2. She replies with the digital equivalent of a laugh. 3. Encouraged, he does some more of that. 4. She chuckles (digitally, of course). He notices that her smile is crooked and that her teeth don’t quite line up. He wonders whether to…
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Three’s Company
I love him. I love her. He loves her. She loves him. They both adore me. We’re three people who know each other from different times and places.
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The Human Resources Princess
I wrote about several Human Resources professionals I’d known. A friend in the space shared it on his network which brought up some angry reactions.
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An Older Man
I went out with an older man recently. Age, steadily creeping up on me, doesn’t seem as scary if it looks the way he does, a few years from now.
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I Want To Be A Modern, Female Superman…
No, this is serious. I am friend, businesswoman, creative thinker, socially aware voice, family woman, hot single girl, gal pal and a host of other things.
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A Woman’s Right To Say No, Just No
*Image (without text) via Ambro on FreeDigitalPhotos.net Here’s the latest accusation that falls on me – RUDE. Also, inconsiderate, unkind, impolite. Hang on, who is calling me all these names? Yes, men. But what kind of men? Men I’ve said NO to. These are NO to sexual advances. NO to…
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V is for Victoria Terminus
On 26 Nov’08, a young man walked into a train station and changed the lives of millions of people forever. I am one of those people, because I am a Mumbaiker.
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A Professional Woman
A fortnight ago, a friend and I parted ways. He came to me, looking for comforting, for sympathy. I gave him instead, honesty. Words were exchanged and the friendship is now a thing of the past. The thing is, I never offered comfort or sympathy, only outright, unvarnished honesty. We’ve…
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When Douchey Men Have Daughters
All that noise and gunfire and the sound of grown men weeping? That’s just the sound of someone getting his just desserts.
