Swart Donkey

How do you start? Building Capital so that you can gradually become less dependent on your earning ability, seems like a game reserved for t...

Life preparation was very gendered in the bubble I grew up in. One example of this was that Mathematics was compulsory in High School for ...

[The following is a fictional conversation between me and other guys] Trev: I am part of a Men's Group that meets on the first and ...

Trev: Competence and Confidence are guys' version of Make-Up and Fashion. Trying to understand why men struggle expressing vulnerabili...

I went to co-ed schools up till the age of twelve. All my schooling (in the 80s and 90s) was in Westville, which is about 14km away from th...

Rachel: I don't really understand the fuss that was made about the Gillette advert. It simply says we shouldn't treat each other ...

It is normal in South Africa to talk of democracy starting in 1994. Switzerland is famous for its federal democracy, which balances ...

Initially colonialism in most of Africa was colonies - not control. More forcing your way into a bedroom than taking over the house ...

My bubble has an underlying guilt motivator . A cultural wiring of hard work and earning what you get in life. There will often be conversa...

One of the most interesting bits of long distance running is how much of a gender equaliser it is. Ann Trason  won one of the most hard cor...

16 year old Trev was a staunch Feminist. Before terms like ally  or HeForShe  so I can't get in trouble for claiming a word I shouldn...

Daniel Dennett tells the story of Mitochondrial Eve . In a fun feminist twist on the western habit of taking the guy's surname , our g...

There is a cost to Free Speech. A few years back I wrote a post about how the digital world was saving the first thing we would normally g...

Putting the cacophony in our heads into words is hard. Reading a recording of what you have said can make anyone seem like they struggle to ...

The last century has seen tremendous progress in all sorts of ways. In the same way we struggle to balance how we choose to spend our time b...

It is interesting that the term `Going Dutch' is used for Men and Women who are dating splitting the bill. Why I say that, is that it is...

I don’t know who else finds this kind of thing a relic of the past. I would doubt the two would ever get introduced as Mrs. and Mr. Hillary...