Another thing I wrote for The Guardian, about Men’s Health‘s new feminist blogger here, for your ease and my ego. You love it. (Right?)
Category Archives: Society
All’s Fair In Love and Internships
Last night, I caught Who Gets The Best Jobs? on BBC2. The epg on my cheapo Freeview box gave the following synopsis: “Richard Bilton investigates how class continues to restrict access to professions and well-paid careers to a small exclusive pool of the well-connected in modern Britain.” I couldn’t not watch this.
Also posted in Career, Education, London, Magazines, Review, Television, Work Tagged Getting started, Journalism, London, School, Telly, The Opposite of Joy 3 Comments
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Last week, I clicked a link on The Hairpin, which led me to a 1,000-man survey from the American magazine, Glamour (except they called it the ‘Extra-Hot, Extra-Juicy Guy Survey, obvs). So I went through the 50-page slideshow, stopping and extracting the most interesting answers to me. Below is a small selection of those:
Also posted in America, Magazines Tagged Feminism, Glamour, Men and Women, Relationships, Stereotypes, Survey, WTF 10 Comments
Radiobim
No doubt you’re a little bit fatigued by the demands I’ve made on your ears and eyes in recent times. Apologies, but there’s more. I was interviewed for The World Today on the BBC World Service (yeah, baby!) last Wednesday following my piece about Nigeria being the happiest place in the world. You can, if [...]
Pretty Is As Pretty Does
As seems to be the custom nowadays, I find myself watching telly with Twitter by my side. Last Wednesday, I settled in to watch Ugly Betty – which totes re-hit its stride just as they cancelled it – and watched as Betty met and eventually dated a very handsome playwright, Zachary Boule (Aaron Tveit). After [...]
Also posted in Identity, Television Tagged Beautiful People, Comedy, Feminism, Men and Women, Telly, Women 4 Comments
Badass Women: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks
Today, 55 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It was an incident that would spark one of the biggest and most well-known chapters in the Civil Rghts Movement. The resulting bus boycott gave us several of the iconic images of the CRM and Rosa Parks [...]
Also posted in America, Love, Politics Tagged Black Girls Rock, Black People, Civil Rights Movement, Claudette Colvin, Feminism, Joy, Race, Rosa Parks, Women Leave a comment
Friends of Exes: Would You? Could You?
A couple of days ago on Twitter, I clicked a link which took me to the Daily Mail site – boo! hiss! – and specifically a ‘showbiz’ story about professional Pretty Person™ Kelly Brook and her newest beau (only the Mail uses the word ‘beau’, much like The Sun uses ‘love rat’). This guy’s name’s [...]
Also posted in Sport Tagged Beautiful People, Break Ups, How Heteronormative!, Men and Women, Relationships, WTF 5 Comments
Virgin Territory
After a lifetime of taking my life lessons from the big screen, I’ve learned that losing your virginity is fun. On the metaphorical journey of losing one’s innocence, you get to bond with your friends, perhaps even go on a road trip. A lot of the time ‘crazy’ misunderstandings happen, leaving you in embarrassing situations, [...]
Also posted in America, Identity, Movies Tagged 'Lady Things', Film, Men and Women, Movies, Sex, Virginity on Film 5 Comments
A Quick Thought on The Royal Engagement
In the run up to and even after the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson, my sister and I would put white pillowcases on our heads and pretend to walk down the aisle, taking turns to be each other’s bridesmaid. It was 1986, and we lived in unenlightened times. Amidst the frenzy that overtook [...]
Black Girls Rock!
On Saturday night(!), I watched Black Girls Rock. I have my issues with BET – this network consistently commissions/buys/broadcasts ig’nant ish, and for that alone, I cannot fully get behind them. But with this, BET did good. Black Girls Rock is a non-profit organisation set up by former model and celebrity DJ Beverly Bond, to [...]
Also posted in America, Identity, Love, Review, Television Tagged Black Girls Rock, Black People, Feminism, Race, Telly, Women 4 Comments
Meet The (Nigerian) Family
Returning tonight on Channel 4 is the third series of their documentary, The Family. This one follows the adventures of the Adesinas from Hackney (insert postcode whoop here). I’ve only seen a few episodes of previous series (series 1 had a white British family, season 2 a British Asian one), but I really enjoyed what [...]
Also posted in Family, Humour, Identity, London, Nigeria, Television Tagged Best Of British, Black People, Family, London, Nigeria, Telly 2 Comments
The H-Factor
One word in the name of this blog flummoxes many non-Nigerians. What does Yoruba mean? I’ll tell you. It’s the name of a tribe in Nigeria (which presents the highest dizygotic twinning rate in the world, FYI) and it also a language. To my ears, the comedy ‘Nigerian accent’ so many non-Nigerian comics aim for [...]
Hit It Or Quit It?
A couple of weeks back, singer P!nk came out firmly on the side on spanking during an interview with Access Hollywood. She said: “I think parents need to beat the crap outta their kids… I think the whole spanking thing and how it’s gotten all PC is for the birds. (My dad) put me through [...]
Also posted in America, Family, Home, Identity Tagged Black People, Childhood, Discipline?, Smacking, Spanking, The African Experience 10 Comments
A plug…
… I did a piece on race and online dating for the UK Guardian, which you can read here. There’s a photo and everything.
