Expected? Shocking? The decision handed down on Tuesday by the California Supreme Court on upholding the same-sex marriage ban takes away rights of homosexual citizens in this country. Don’t they pay taxes? Don’t they follow laws of the land? Aren’t they outstanding citizens? So why was it hard to give them their well earned fundamental [...]
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Archive for May, 2009
Online Dating: To tell the whole truth or not
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Most men largely prefer young, thin women. Most women prefer tall, successful men. And when it comes to online dating, the odds of being contacted if you don’t ‘fit the cut’ are much slimmer. Is it really in your best interests to tell the truth if more than 75% of the online daters will dismiss [...]
Wooing any woman any time
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009What is the best course of seduction from the first impression to the morning after? Here are some stages of seduction according to 1000 women. Asking her out: Being quirky but cute wont cut it. Only 7% of the women interviewed wanted to be asked out by way of a note or mix CD. The [...]
Are we such a color aroused lot?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009According to Ronald E. Hall, co-author of the book “Racism in the 21st Century”, overt discrimination based on one’s race is declining. It is now more about colorism and the basis of prejudice is in one’s actual skin pigmentation. The book argues that lighter-skinned minorities receive preferential treatment over their darker counterparts when it comes [...]
The crazies we do for love
Friday, May 15th, 2009A 29-year-old mother strangled her 7-year-old daughter in 2004 and threw her body in the river so she can win the love of her husband who would not accept the child because she was not his biologically. Unlucky for her she got arrested after committing the crime and the man she sacrificed her daughter for [...]
More rumination on interracial relationships
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009I was hanging out at my female friend’s place some time back and I couldn’t help but notice that every woman I met there (starting from her mum and aunt (who are Black) to my pal and her cousins (who are mixed race) were either in a relationship with or married to a White man. [...]
Immigrants dating more within their ethnicities?
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009According to recent studies began by scholars on, how children of immigrants into the U.S. in recent years will date and marry, the results seem to beat the conventional wisdom of the open-minded Americanized generation. Apparently, this generation of immigrants (Hispanics and Asians) is leaning more towards getting spouses from their own ethnicities. Looking at [...]
