Philinomics

Gender has always been debated as an issue and as a term . The UN defines it as “ the social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships between women and men and girls and boys, as well as the relations between women and those between men”. It isn’t clear, right? I don’t understand it fully but I get the gist that gender is like a spectrum, one in which people can freely choose to associate themselves with whatever they feel most comfortable. It isn’t, however, the 72 options that Facebook insists of confining it to because it holds within those options “sub- spectrums”. There has been a debacle as of late as to the roles and definitions of such genders. Does one who identifies as a male go to a male restroom or to a female one if that individual has female genetalia? I understand why this may be an issue for some because it may be evasive to the privacy of those people in the restrooms. Men who don’t want to be seen by someone who they ...

The education system is buggered and we all know it. I was recently watching a series online called “Orange is the new black”, now whilst I’m by no means going to act as if I watched this on my own accord to begin with, I must concede that the series was eye opening. The format of the show follows the character called Piper Chapman and her journey in prison for a year. Now without going in to too much detail, the series shows the journeys of every inmate she encounters into prison and shows the variety of stories and sentences that inmates are subject to. If you’ve read this far and haven’t thought I’ve gone completely mad I thank you and assure you I am coming to my point. One such character on the show is a girl called Janae Watson, she is around twenty years old and her story is by far the one that resonated with me the most. Now, without advertising the show too much if, when you read this, you feel like you need to go and watch the show I would recommend it and urge you to watc...