‘Gamer Culture’

Why am I inclined to believe the worst about #Gamergate? Because I am a gamer, primarily playing MMOs. Maybe this is unfair of me, and there is no doubt whatsoever that I am predisposed to think the worst of them because of my own experience online. Play a few games...

“Deer Diary…”

So it’s that time again; time for a lovely walk in the autumn woods that I might spoil by shooting a deer.  So this morning I rose at 3:30 AM, showered, had a cup of coffee and hit the road. Just after 6:30 AM I pulled up at the Happy Hunting Grounds, enjoyed...

Feminism is not a dirty word.

These days the word feminism is strangely unpopular.  It’s opponents have assigned it a connotation of ‘man-hating’ and masculinization of women, and many women have accepted this to the extent that they are loathe to identify as a...

Researching in the new era

In the nineteen-eighties when I first had a go at writing technology didn’t play much of a role. Yes, I had a state-of-the-art writing tool – an electric typewriter that was about the size of a laptop (though about four times as thick) and was designed to...