The Social Thinker

I've been thinking lately and I'm wondering why it is that whenever there is an issue involving a man and a woman and something goes wrong, it's always the woman who gets the blame? I'm not trying to come across as a strict feminist, and I understand that there are women out there who do wrong, but when we look at issues in the public eye for instance, it's always the woman that everyone has a go at.

For example Charles and Diana. He cheats on Diana with Camilla and Camilla gets called horseface and a whole lot of other names for years. Julia Roberts has an affair with a married man, and even though they've been married for two decades everyone still calls her a homewrecker. What about her husband? He's the one who wrecked his home. Will Smith hits Chris Rock and it's all Jada's fault. Jade Goody…

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Claudia Connell says that it is now common for people to use community groups and social media to ask for freebies and favours including lifts to places and appliances including spare fridges.

So I came across the above article today and it really got me thinking. I for one have never used these community sites that they're talking about where people see if they can get free items or favours or whatever it is they are in need of. But I have come across plenty of people from colleagues to neighbours to so-called friends who try their luck in seeing what they can get out of you. I really can't stand insincere behaviour so I avoid these kinds of people like the plague.

A lot of people talk about the good old days when there was community spirit and everyone looked out for each other and so forth. But these days we've become so cynical that despite wanting to feel part of a community and give each other a helping hand, we shy away from people the moment they ask for something…

Well I think everyone knows, wherever in the world that you are, that the last few days the news has been consumed by what is happening in Ukraine. It's absolutely devastating and my heart really does go out to all the people who have been affected by it. I'm not from Ukraine but my mom's family originate from Hungary so we're very close to the region, and I don't know if this is the reason why I feel it all the more strongly. What I've been seeing in the news is awful. I find it so hard to believe that we are more than a fifth of the way into a new century and still these barbaric acts continue.

What are everyone's thoughts on the crisis?