Daenerys exemplified the double standards we have in “Noble” traits in male and female characters.

I'd like to apologise to people who do not watch Game Of Thrones, I know it's irritating how the whole world continues to rant and rave about it and I thank you for reading this anyway - if you are. Through articles like this one, and this one (all quotes are from them), I've encountered time …

Male influence on mainstream moral thought: why it’s okay to punch nazis.

As a radical feminist living and learning from an online radfem community, I'm always aiming to uncover male-influence on our societal and psychological structures so that they can be questioned. One such area that I believe has been influenced by a domination of men in philosophy is our general moral thinking and approach to ethical …

‘Post-Truth Politics’ and Emotion

'Post-Truth' has been declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, and lavishly applied to the world of politics in the forms of 'post-truth politics' and 'post-truth politicians'. The dictionary defines the adjective as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal …

The Poppy is Political, because Morality is.

I have found the outcry over FIFA banning the poppy due to their ban on all political (as well as religious and commercial) messages, strange to listen to. I thought, 'wow, what a privilege'. To have a highly emotional deeply held moral belief be defended as a sort of fundamental human kindness, deeper than politics, deeper …

Philosophical soundbites which I think are helping horrible ideology win.

We can write about the elements which have come together to get Trump elected 45th President of the US for years - and we will. I suspect a lot of them will be political, sociological and psychological. So here are a few philosophical ones I see, and which irritate me. It's all subjective. I don't …

Is voting for Clinton still too racist?

We have a situation where an awful lot of democrats who supported Bernie Sanders, now have to decide whether to redirect their support to Clinton in order to secure the contender who isn't Donald Trump. I am not disputing for a second that voting for Trump is racist. But given the everything, is it still …