Did Women’s Liberation Kill Chivalry?
When was the last time a man held the door open for you, not out of necessity but out of old-fashioned courtesy? I am 20, and when I look around, the rituals of chivalry my mother and grandmother speak of seem to be fading. Men pulling out chairs, standing when a woman enters a room, offering jackets when we are cold. These gestures belong more to black-and-white movies than to daily life. Some people call this progress while others mourn its los
Divorce in Sri Lanka The Stigma and Why It Sounds Like a ‘Dirty’ Word
I never really understood why “divorce” carried the weight of a whisper in Sri Lankan society until I found myself in awkward conversations, where nobody says it outright, but everyone knows it. The idea that
Exploring the Phrase:Men Never Change Truth or Fallacy?
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time asking myself the same question: Why do men never change? Not just boyfriends. I mean fathers, brothers, exes, even guys you spoke to for two weeks who somehow still left emotional shrapnel behind. They all seem to come with the same default settings. You’ll hear the promises like prayers:
Limerence A Crush on Steroids
If love is an old glass of wine, limerence is downing three Red Bulls and forgetting to breathe. The term limerence was coined in 1979 by psychologist Dorothy Tennov to describe the dizzying rush of intense infatuation, the kind where your brain suddenly decides one person is the main character in your life, and you can’t stop imagining every “what if” scenario with them. Unlike a regular crush, limerence thrives on uncertainty.
The Enemy in the Bottle Alcohol and Methanol Poisoning
There is something almost ritualistic about pouring a drink. The clink of the ice in the glass. The amber swirl of the liquid catching the light. The laughter around the table as wine glasses meet in a toast. Alcohol sells itself as liquid celebration, a shortcut to connection. It sells the promise of loosened shoulders, easy conversation, and a good night’s sleep. Yet the truth is, sometimes the same glasses lifted with trust and swallowed with
AI Is Draining Our Planet
AI, or artificial intelligence, refers to the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
A Sky Full of Lies The Coldplay Concert Cheating Scandal
What was supposed to be a magical evening under the stars, a Coldplay concert filled with dreamy lights and emotion, ended up exposing a real-life drama that no one saw coming. Except 60,000 fans... and millions of people on TikTok. At a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, the Jumbotron zoomed in on what seemed like a couple cuddling mid-set. A woman, cozily nestled in the arms of a man, both wrapped up in each other like they were wat
Contact: A Peaceful Hellscape Why walking away can feel more like heartbreak Than healing
They say “no contact” is how you heal. That cutting someone off is how you get your power back. That silence is strength. But let’s be honest, half the time, it doesn’t feel like empowerment. It feels like suffocation dressed up as discipline. The truth is, you don’t go no contact because you’ve stopped caring. You go no contact because if you didn’t, you’d never stop reaching out.
The Rise of Foreign Influencers in Sri Lanka
Welcome to the tropically ironic world of foreign influencers in Sri Lanka, a genre of content that sits somewhere between an off-brand travel documentary and a TikTok fever dream. If you’ve ever opened Instagram or TikTok and seen a white woman aggressively lip-syncing to a Sinhala or Tamil song, complete with wide eyes, awkward hip thrusts, and a questionable saree drape, congrats, you’ve seen the phenomenon in the wild. Now, before we get accu
How Shows Like ‘Love Island’ Ruined Romance (But We’re Still Watching)
Somewhere between “I’ve got a text” and “I just feel like our connection is different,” a generation lost its grip on what real romance looks like. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why you expect a man to write you poetry and have a six-pack, or why a slight lull in conversation makes you feel like someone’s about to yell, “I’m not here to make friends” - congratulations.
How Social Conditioning Slowly Shrinks The Girl
Imagine a vibrant garden, where each flower is unique; some tall and bright, others small and delicate, each radiating its own wild beauty. Now imagine a gardener who only waters the quietest, smallest flowers, pruning away the ones that grow too tall or too bold. Over time, the garden loses its diversity. The tallest flowers wither, and the blooms shrink into uniformity. This is what social conditioning does to girls. From a young age, society a
Gossip How to Correctly
Gossip. Something Gen Z, and every other generation, is all too familiar with. Let’s get one thing straight: gossip isn’t always evil. Sometimes, it’s cultural currency. Sometimes it’s bonding. And sometimes, let’s be honest, it’s just really fun. Gossip is the social equivalent of seasoning. Used sparingly and with taste? It brings flavour. Used recklessly? You’ll burn your mouth, lose friends, and maybe get used. So, if you’re going to gossip,
When Bruises Wear Blazers Abuse in the Workplace
Some wounds wear lipstick. Others hold coffee cups in trembling hands. Not all bruises are purple; some appear as silence in morning meetings, nervous laughter over missed deadlines, or the weight behind a smile that doesn’t quite reach the eyes. Domestic abuse is often believed to belong behind closed doors, confined to bedrooms and kitchens, but it doesn’t stop there. It wears a uniform, carries a work badge, and answers phone calls under press
Why Everyone Is Starting to Look Alike
Scroll through Instagram, TikTok, or any major social media platform today, and one thing stands out: many faces look eerily similar. From top influencers to everyday users, a strikingly uniform aesthetic dominates.
The Invisible Architecture of Love: Fate, Destiny, Soul Ties, and Karmic Bonds
Some moments in life feel too precise, too poetic, to be accidental. A stranger becomes your whole world in a heartbeat. A goodbye feels more like a death than a departure. Sometimes, the right person arrives at the wrong time; yet leaves you forever changed. We name these experiences: fate, destiny, soul ties, karmic relationships, not to understand them, but to survive them. These concepts offer a spiritual structure to the chaos of human conne
The Brotherhood Complex
In nearly every corner of male behaviour, from gym culture to group chats, from the boardroom to bar banter, there’s one silent but powerful influence at play: the validation of other men. Often unconscious, always potent, this need for male approval quietly governs the way men dress, speak, date, and even process morality. Despite the public declarations of being “unbothered,” “alpha,” or “self-made,” many men are driven not by independence, but
The Fetish for Purity Desire, Domination, and the Projection of Power
There is a fantasy men cling to; quietly, sometimes unconsciously, that the ideal woman in untouched. Not just sexually inexperienced, but emotionally blank, unformed, easy to impress, and easy to mold. She is attractive because she has not yet become. Her purity is her offering, and her inexperience is her gift. It is a disturbing desire cloaked in romance and mistaken for love and make no mistake, it is a fetish, not a preference. This fetish f
The Male Gaze in Film
Somewhere in the universe, a man with a camera still thinks he’s doing women a favor by filming them eating strawberries in slow motion. Welcome, dear reader, to the phenomenon known as the male gaze; cinema’s laziest trick and patriarchy’s longest running franchise. Coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, ‘visual pleasure and narrative cinema,’ the male gaze describes the way film (and honestly, most of popular culture) frames women as decorat
Brains, Beauty and Internalized Misogyny
Their legacy reminds me daily that bias against pretty girls isn’t about glitter; it’s about the threat they pose by refusing to shrink themselves
The Bittersweet Life of Almost
There’s a quiet sorrow that comes from living a life of almost. Not quite the top. Not quite the favorite. Not quite the one people talk about in glowing terms at dinners or award shows or over
