Maybe relationships aren’t meant to complete us - maybe they’re just meant to show us who we are when we stop pretending. The real question is: are we brave enough to be seen, and curious enough to keep looking?

I suddenly realized that unless something changed soon, I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine.

In the last 10 or so years, the approach to sex (speaking specifically to Gen Z and millennials in the West) has changed drastically. I wonder: what is this new-age approach to dating for both the involved and the celibate?

That being said, while deep in thought this morning about the political connotations of female archetypes, I couldn’t help but wonder (see what I did there?): why do these independent feminist characters always end up with a scumbag?

Tradwife lifestyle fails to account for the systematic discrimination and abuse that women faced in the household. The idea of a tradwife is essentially conformity bound in a glorified misunderstanding of tradition.

Molly Malone has become a metaphor for how society treats women’s bodies: always on display, always available to be consumed, touched, and commented on. Reduced to a pair of breasts.

Several individuals have criticized Booktok for romanticizing and marketing books that include problematic and adult themes, including abuse.