Day 41: The Shit-Show – Single Woman’s Diary

It was really lovely what V said last night: “get them to do a blood test on your 3rd date”! After I told her about how “helicobacter pylori” spreads! And Daniel: “wow you got lucky. You dodged a bullet!” Tinder dates. What can I say? What can I say. You think as a woman abiding […]

Day 24: Bitch please – The Single Woman’s Diary

My little snowball got her bi-weekly bath. Now she’s freshly groomed and looks like a ball of fluff. Though she’s a 10-year-old Maltese, she’s pretty much like a friendly kitty. So just like a cat, she perched on my chest wanting cuddles. Of late, I’ve realised that most people who hate bitches are either (a) […]

The problematic discourse of a “bitch” and how “love” allows her to be tamed (Part 1)

Here I will mildly highlight (the very complex idea of) gender dichotomy (through my cis-gendered heterosexual position), established by the word “bitch” and how visual linguistics of mainstream media keep this structured phenomenon of “the bitch” within the rituals of break-ups, friend zones, and “love”.
(Unedited First-Script)