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If It Was Your Daughter

A Tiny Life Moment About Choosing Empathy — The moment The pandemic was worsening and things were getting hectic at the store. The girl at the checkout was new and had done something wrong with the till, holding up the queue. People were starting to get impatient, muttering, shuffling. The girl said “I’m sorry” in a tentative, worried voice to…

Tinylifemoments

2 min read

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

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Authoritarians are Forcing Jordan Peterson To Look At Women He Doesn’t Find Attractive

Is Misogyny a Personality Disorder? — Jordan Peterson Decides a Woman Doesn’t Meet His Princely Standards. Reaction Does Not Go To Plan.

Shitgibbon

11 min read

Authoritarians are Forcing Jordan Peterson To Look At Women He Doesn’t Find Attractive

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

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In These Silences

On Sundays, she will chop vegetables alone now. 60 years of preparing Sunday lunch together in companionable harmony is done.

Grief

3 min read

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

·18 hours ago

Material Alterations in the Brains of Those Who Experience Abuse

ACE Scores, Trauma, PTSD and Rehabilitation — Revised and updated from original article: There’s something few people know, a fact so simple and life-altering that we should be shouting it from the rooftops. Abuse in childhood materially changes your brain. Actual damage is done to the structure of the brain of a child who is chronically maltreated. …

Abuse

9 min read

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

·May 13

Why Is That Fuckwit Wearing a Flower Crown?

Greetings from Covid Country: Day 5 — You’ve probably already noticed there’s a selfie in this post. Two, in fact. You may be asking yourself two questions: Why are you posting selfies? You’re a grown woman for fuck sake. Why is that fuckwit wearing a flower crown? Particularly considering my own somewhat blunt approach to people who…

Crack Whore

5 min read

Why Is That Fuckwit Wearing a Flower Crown?

Published in Blow Your Stack

·May 11

Respond As We Initiate

Putting the Service Back in Customer Service — Dear Organisation, Business or Agency, I don’t want a phone call in response to a text. I don’t want a phone call in response to an email. In fact I don’t want a phone call ever. This is not 1980. Phone Wars It’s not an age thing, it’s a me thingmedium.com It’s just this simple: If I text you, text me…

Wankers

1 min read

he Authentic Eclectic

Respond As We Initiate

Putting the Service Back in Customer Service

Dear Organisation, Business or Agency,

I don’t want a phone call in response to a text.

I don’t want a phone call in response to an email.

In fact I don’t want a phone call ever. This is not 1980.

Phone Wars

It’s not an age thing, it’s a me thing

medium.com

It’s just this simple:

If I text you, text me…

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

·May 6

In The Clamour, A Captivating Hush

How To Make This Voice Rise Over The Cacophony? — I write SEO content and commissioned articles filled with phrases I don’t mean on subjects I don’t care about. I read furlongs of copy, articles, blog posts. And oh sometimes the written word is filled with dreary repetition. So many sentences; so few truly worth reading. And so few truly…

Spotlight

3 min read

May 4

Two Reasons I Haven’t Made Audio for All My Recent Stories

And A Question — Time Constraints. I’ve been really busy with freelance work. I do intend to go back and make audio for all my best-ofs and more popular articles, and I’ll write a short article compiling everything that has audio to date soon. 2. I have a feeling that the interest in…

Audio

1 min read

The Authentic Eclectic

Two Reasons I Haven’t Made Audio for All My Recent Stories

And A Question

Time Constraints. I’ve been really busy with freelance work. I do intend to go back and make audio for all my best-ofs and more popular articles, and I’ll write a short article compiling everything that has audio to date soon.

2. I have a feeling that the interest in…

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

·May 3

In Testerical Times, A Little Logic can Be Helpful

Roe V Wade and The Current American Abortion Debate — Some time ago I wrote this piece on abortion, and why it’s simply illogical to be anti abortion. Rather than rewriting the whole thing — because I’m too lazy and pretty happy with the finished product tbh — I’ll just leave it here and hope you read it. There’s No Logical Argument Against Abortion Applying Rationality To A Wilfully Inflamed Topicmedium.com

Roe V Wade

1 min read

In Testerical Times, A Little Logic can Be Helpful

The Authentic Eclectic

In Testerical Times, A Little Logic can Be Helpful

Roe V Wade and The Current American Abortion Debate

Some time ago I wrote this piece on abortion, and why it’s simply illogical to be anti abortion. Rather than rewriting the whole thing — because I’m too lazy and pretty happy with the finished product tbh — I’ll just leave it here and hope you read it.

There’s No Logical Argument Against Abortion

Applying Rationality To A Wilfully Inflamed Topic

medium.com

And if…

Published in The Authentic Eclectic

·May 3

Got Myself a Walking, Stalking, Burbling, Snivelling Living Troll

Wherein I Apologise To My Stalker — I’ve got myself a fan. A querulous cockwomble of uncertain pedigree has opened three accounts (that I know of) so far to try to troll me. Medium’s fine with that, obviously. Our latest exchange — well I say latest but he wrote this a month ago, while I only noticed…

Cockwomble

3 min read

Got Myself a Walking, Stalking, Burbling, Snivelling Living Troll

If It Was Your Daughter

Authoritarians are Forcing Jordan Peterson To Look At Women He Doesn’t Find Attractive

In These Silences

Material Alterations in the Brains of Those Who Experience Abuse

Why Is That Fuckwit Wearing a Flower Crown?

Respond As We Initiate

he Authentic Eclectic

Respond As We Initiate

Putting the Service Back in Customer Service

Phone Wars

It’s not an age thing, it’s a me thing

In The Clamour, A Captivating Hush

Two Reasons I Haven’t Made Audio for All My Recent Stories

The Authentic Eclectic

Two Reasons I Haven’t Made Audio for All My Recent Stories

And A Question

In Testerical Times, A Little Logic can Be Helpful

The Authentic Eclectic

In Testerical Times, A Little Logic can Be Helpful

Roe V Wade and The Current American Abortion Debate

There’s No Logical Argument Against Abortion

Applying Rationality To A Wilfully Inflamed Topic

Got Myself a Walking, Stalking, Burbling, Snivelling Living Troll

The Garrulous Glaswegian