THE WORD“demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are some 800,000 posts on TikTok with the tag #demure. Youngsters today are using the word with lashings of irony, invoking it to describe everything from Saturn to sun...
What started off as a slang word used amongst urban youth to describe food that is super yummy has been usurped by the masses. It is often misused and the word has definitely been abused. Let’s ban anybody over age 17 from saying the word bussin....
Lidia is a sharp, gutsy, tenacious young woman who doesn’t waste time explaining why she isn’t what society says she is. She just gets on with her work, catching things her arrogant male peers don’t and quickly seizing upon opportunities to find clues. One episode features a lesbian r...
That’s because “use the can” is vulgar; the only people in Canada who you’d probably hear saying it would be teenage boys, if that. I’m not saying Canadians can’t be vulgar or crude, but Canada doesn’t quite have that raunch culture element that America does (and I’m glad...
Literally, this expression means “honey fun.” When you describe something enjoyable, interesting or awesome, you say it was꿀잼. It can refer to the date you went on last night, or a movie you saw with a friend. But what about when your date was about as fun as going to the ...
I have wondered how the ‘universe’, or however you would like to describe the forces beyond ourselves, collates the sequences of life events. I’m not talking about the larger and meaningful events in life, but the smaller arrangements of information and experiences that we come across. ...
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Like many activists who oppose inclusion, Gaines consistently refers to trans girls and women as “males” and “biological males,” a nonsense term coined in the 2016 “bathroom bill battle” to describe transgender women who were briefly outlawed from using public restrooms in North Carolina. Wh...
but when we remove him from our lives through disappointment, we too feel an emptiness, a void. Only when we return to him in total trust and faith beyond reason, will we believe again and experience the joy he brought us through the Christ child of Christmas. Reach out in childlike fait...
“defining deviancy down,” to describe a process in which we change the meaning of moral to fit what we are doing anyway. I wish to add a third voice to the mix, that of the late historian Arnold Toynbee, who would find our recent history no mystery at all: We are witnessing the ...