Privilege

How many times have you heard an old man yell: "back in the day, we never had the things you young folk have today, life was so much harder..."? The truth is most people, especially teenagers, would brush them off as senile fools who've lost grip of the world. It takes a lot sometimes to sit back and reflect on how much privilege we really have, something reading a lot of sociology blogs has compelled me to do (particularly those on feminism).

Father's Day

It's been a day since father's day, well two technically as i write this well after midnight but i would just like to say a big thank you to all fathers out there because let's face it, without them, some of us would not be able to drive, play sports, attempt to fix things and pretend to know things. Also we would not know what it's like not to be embarrassed around friends or awkwardly have "the talk".