Ten Pieces Of Advice To Protect Women Going Into Marriage — These ten pieces of advice would have changed my life immeasurably for the better, had I heard them. And had I been able to heed them. Try, for a moment, to ignore your love tinted view of the world and consider that if you follow this advice you’re harming absolutely…

For the AE writers — I am sorry I haven’t been publishing. I do need a couple more days to get back to it. However, I did do a quick run through today and saw that there were about eight stories in the queue, so I have quickly published them…

Why The Concept of Hate Speech is Hateful — Hi all, I’m still away for a few more days. Here’s one I prepared earlier. Here’s what the UN has to say on the fiction of “hate speech”. “In common language “hate speech” refers to offensive discourse targeting a group or an individual based on inherent characteristics (such as race…

Why are some women so wretchedly pathetic? Wait, let me back the bus up a bit. I never bought the fiction that the two sexes have distinctly separate personality traits, and I do know that environment shapes a great many of our behaviours and preferences. …

Let’s make something very clear, right at the outset. It’s not rationally possible to claim that Elon Musk has made Twitter worse — unless you consider rampant sexual exploitation of children unimportant, or even desirable. I’m genuinely gobsmacked that so few people seem to know or care that until very…

When you search online for the psychology of people who share ugly photos, articles pop up willy nilly explaining that you hate your own photographs for various reasons — from low self esteem to the mirror effect, to cognitive bias. But that’s not what I want to talk about. Let’s…

Spotlight on Tony, P.J., Paula S, Patricia, Jody, Ellen, Steff, Maria, Rhiannon, Catherine, Lisa — and me — Buried inside every precious and perilous breath of love is the seed of grief. I’ve collected a few stories from the Authentic Eclectic (and a couple from outside the publication) which I hope will help us all to remember we are not alone. There are as many ways to grieve…

Dear Medium please, please oh please give us a way to hide the Staff Picks. Day in day out they squat there — irritating and completely unappealing. Like last night’s leftovers. And not the good, cold pizza leftovers. The cabbage soup kind that your mum made you eat. It’s hard…