JUDAS: A Modern Journal

Born in Singapore in 1981, 'Tila Tequila' is an American TV Personality, and, get this, Bisexual! Her 2007 'bisexuality-themed' MTV show, (very creatively) entitled 'A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila' was MTV's  second highest-rated series premiere of that year. She's kind of an icon, and she'd be my new Gemma Collins had she not posted a photo of herself in a 'scantily clad SS uniform' in front of Auschwitz, and posted an article she'd written entitled 'Why I Sympathise with Hitler: Part I,' but we'll get to that another time. My main enquiry, of course, is to ask: why was there more than one part? Why wasn't one part enough, Tila? So, the show, why we're all here. MTV's ' A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila' (2007) is both one of the most distressing and entertaining pieces of reality TV I have ever consumed - and I've been through two seasons of 'My Unorthodox Life,' and fifteen seasons of 'R...

Hatred isn't a feeling I'm often attracted to, but when reading the disgusting, transphobic, hateful rhetoric of J.K. Rowling, Helen Joyce, and Germaine Greer it's hard not to reflect a little of the hate they radiate.  I was watching a clip from the British TV show Good Morning Britain , ironically this evening, in which the presenters (Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid) are discussing J.K. Rowling's (at the time) new, allegedly transphobic, tweet, which read: 'People who menstruate.' I'm sure there used to be a word foor those people. Somebody help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woodmud? Isn't that a jolly little thing to laugh about! J.K. has observed that the woke left is using accurate terminology for, literally, people who menstruate, and she's decided that's bad because she's a transphobe. Anyways they've invited fellow bigot, Professor Kathleen Stock to speak on the issue, captioned as an 'Author and philosopher, University of Sussex....

Yesterday, on my regular post-school depressing Twitter scroll, I came across a repost of an article entitled "Mormons Aren't Nice People: a bitter victims [sic] deep dive into very old theology." Firstly - brushing past the fact that victims is misspelled because I'm not an educational classist - I'd like to point out how incredibly generalised this statement is, just in the title. This author, that's 'Sadie Lee' on Medium, isn't looking for a resolution, and place to unload, a resolution, or even an apology. She's looking for conflict. As a rather devoted agnostic, I'm not known for running to the rescue of horribly oppressed theists, but I will argue against the public slander of a really quite legitimate belief system.  Ignoring the inflammatory title, and proceeding to the main body of the article, I found out that Lee is actually a survivor of a lot of shame, trauma, and hard times at the hands of people who just happened to be member...

Bimbos were a staple of 2000s tabloid gossip, with publications across the globe using the word to degrade and put down women like Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton. In fact, a New York Post cover from the time has a picture of the three women as a backdrop to the text "Bimbo Summit." Yeah, real mature. Since then, the word fell out of fashion, along with the noun bimbofication but it was defined loosely as something along the lines of: Bimbo: an attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman (frivolous here meaning not having any purpose or value.) Bimbofication: used by social media users to describe when somebody becomes more attractive, has a 'glow up' or becomes more sexualised. In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts and in literature, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Even ...

Barbie is almost always criticized by feminists, who claim that Barbie exemplifies the kind of compulsory heterosexuality, white imperialism, and oppressive patriarchy that feminists so hate. These claims aren't just based on suppositions, but more so on the heap of ethnographic research conducted amongst Mattel's consumers.  Barbie is a household name, having been a computer engineer, astronaut, rockstar, doctor, and even a presidential candidate. Over the last few years, Mattel has given Barbie a woke new makeover fit for the 21st century. I don't doubt for even a second that Mattel's re-invigoration of Barbie is motivated by anything but a consumerist need for more profit, but that doesn't mean that she isn't a feminist. One can have skewed motivations for their feminism, whilst still existing in a space that benefits and benefits and uplifts women. One of their latest adverts really does exemplify Mattel's newfound liberalism - and pulls on my heartstrin...

For years, single-sex education has been hailed as a bastion of reason, with parents across incomes scrambling to send their little one to The X School for Boys  or The X School for Girls . For years, the public image of single-sex schools has gone pretty untarnished, with little thought (by parents) on the effects of segregatory, sexist, and exclusionary education.  Firstly, single-sex schools promote gender stereotyping. In 'the west' (a concept I generally dislike) we live in a very gendered society - dictating how boys and girls should act. You've heard it all before, it's nothing new: girls play with dolls and like pink, and boys wrestle in the mud and like cars. Now just imagine how easy it must be to fall into gendered stereotypes surrounded only by others following the same set of societal rules. Even if, as a girl, you don't like dolls and hate pink, the appearance that everyone else likes it (even if they don't) lets you paint yourself as an outsider, ...