In 2015, my heart started bleeding for the boychild and men because what I was seeing around was not good at all. As the heads of families, men were failing and there were more initiatives towards women who were their helpers and none for the ones in the driver’s seat. I cried out to God and said please help us, we are losing our future as the leaders are failing to do what is required of them and thus women are taking up the positions which were never meant to be theirs. Seven years later I have witnessed God’s responses to my prayer. He has lifted men to take on…
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Is Masculinity a Socially Constructed Identity?
As socially constructed identities, boys and men learn “appropriate” gender roles in accordance with the masculine expectations of their given society. This means that from very early on boys get messages on what it means to be a boy. Recently I developed a deeper passion for my husband’s work – if you don’t know already, he is into mentorship for young men. This passion has driven my curiosity in doing research and reading up any book, article I can find about masculinity, males, men, and boys. In my search for knowledge, I have affirmed that a society to be masculine it has traits that are categorized as male, such as strength, dominance,…
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Far From the Madding Crowd
‘Will you marry me? I can provide for you, I have sheep that can pay off the land and you can settle here in this beautiful country. You can get a piano in the house. I can make you happy.’ – Mr. Gabriel Oak, Far from the Madding Crowd. I was watching this movie(Far from the Madding Crowd) a few days ago, after failing to find the book and something in it struck me. Men, in a time long gone as shown in the movie, used to marry women because they could provide for them, the men were hard workers. A man with work was looked at as a responsible…
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Men Look For Business & Love While Women Seek Games & Knowledge On #SocialMedia
A new infographic has been published by Finances Online regarding the things we look for on social media and segmented them between genders. We all know why we are on social, why we engage with it the way we do, but do you know that we differ in the way we use it and what we look for when we are there. Alex Hillsberg and David Adelman say that men are more likely to use social media for business and dating, while women look for relationships, sharing, entertainment, and self-help. Also you remember my blog about Mobile adverts, this infographic says that women ignore paid advertising more often than men, but this topic I will…
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Types of men you shouldn't be dating.
Am re-posting this but edited, from my Facebook notes after i promised a friend of mine, a one @Jwaninda that am to post it on Monday after @beewol had taken over the morning. I had forgotten and he sent me a tweet to remind me; I thought I would wake up to @pkahill ‘s blog mbu of 25 types of men you shouldn’t date, but narra or did I just miss it — Joseph Waninda (@JWaninda) September 16, 2013 But i don’t have 25, i only have 18 types and here there are; 1) Mammy’s boys He probably stays with his mother who does most of his things. She cooks for…
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For Ladies; Lies are lies, stop sugarcoating them
“When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him. Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:…
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Type of women, men should be dating
There are several women in the world, that the options are possibly limitless for dating; now this is going to sound crazy for a lady to write about her fellow woman in this manner but i had to… So here we go: 1.) The Older Woman. Now, when I say this, I’m not saying you have to date someone’s grandmother. I’m saying that a woman who is about 3-5 years older than you, who has most likely gone through the era of your life that you are experiencing right now. They know more, and are more…experienced in several matters. Fredrick said when I was 17, I dated a 23 year…
