Monday, April 6

LIFESTYLE

Love In The Time Of Algorithms: Would You Let Artificial Intelligence Choose Your Partner?
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DATING

Love In The Time Of Algorithms: Would You Let Artificial Intelligence Choose Your Partner?

It could be argued artificial intelligence (AI) is already the indispensable tool of the 21st century. From helping doctors diagnose and treat patients to rapidly advancing new drug discoveries, it’s our trusted partner in so many ways. Now it has found its way into the once exclusively-human domain of love and relationships. With AI-systems as matchmakers, in the coming decades it may become common to date a personalised avatar. This was explored in the 2014 movie “Her”, in which a writer living in near-future Los Angeles develops affection for an AI system. The sci-fi film won an Academy Award for depicting what seemed like a highly unconventional love story. In reality, we’ve already started down this road. Delving into the human psyche The online dating industrty is worth more tha...
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Get A Boyfriend – 5 Tell-Tale Signs You’re More Than Friends
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ATTRACTION

Get A Boyfriend – 5 Tell-Tale Signs You’re More Than Friends

Are you tired of being single and wish you could get a boyfriend? Is there someone you like but can't tell if you're more than friends? Most relationships are built on friendship, which entails trust and respect. You may be buddies now but somewhere along the way, your friendship develops into something more-something deeper and more romantic. Here are signs that will show you are more than friends: Obvious comments Suddenly your girlfriends start making obvious comments. Whenever you're with him there would be comments about how cute you look as a couple. They would say how compatible you seem to be and how much you are into each other. It makes sense: sometimes friends see romance blossoming before you do. Pet names All of a sudden you developed pet names for each other. It was un...
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“Autofellatio” What Does Such A Bizarre And Convoluted Word Actually Mean?
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FOR THE M

“Autofellatio” What Does Such A Bizarre And Convoluted Word Actually Mean?

Why do doctors use such unfamiliar words? Really, why do they use words that the majority of us can't understand and are unfamiliar with? Why are such professions, such as Medicine and Law, filled with words that are derived from Greek and Latin origins? Using such words makes it difficult for normal, every-day people - such as you and me - to understand what people in these types of fields are actually talking about. For instance, in medicine do you know what an "acute, inner-inflammatory reaction of the greater auricular fold" is? This means that you have an ear ache. You have to love it. We just can't call it an "ear ache." No, that would be too easy and would give us away. We have to call it something that no one has a clue as to what it means. This cryptic nonsense exists for a r...
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What We Don’t Understand About Young People’s Motivations
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PARENTING, VIDEO REELS

What We Don’t Understand About Young People’s Motivations

Young people are demanding change. In the last few days, young Indigenous activists and their supporters blocked parliamentarians in Victoria, B.C., from accessing the provincial legislature and led waves of protest across the country. For some young people, climate change is urgent. For others, gun violence is a crisis. From truth and reconciliation to inclusion and diversity and mental health, young people are bringing awareness to societal crises and making headlines along the way. Historically, this is really nothing new. Young people have long been leaders and catalysts of important movements. Unfortunately, these change-makers are often thought to be outside of what is considered typical of this age group. Young people are often labelled problematic, selfish or not yet ready to le...
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Want A Satisfying Relationship? Don’t Present Yourself As A Sex Object
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RELATIONSHIPS

Want A Satisfying Relationship? Don’t Present Yourself As A Sex Object

When Joan Holloway – the bombshell office worker on the show “Mad Men” – enters a room, she knows she looks good and is going to turn heads. Every morning, Joan meticulously does her makeup and hair and puts on a skintight dress. The men in her office take notice and are quick with the catcalls and sexual comments. Rather than becoming embarrassed or angry, for the most part Joan finds the attention invigorating. Her hourglass figure is a source of power that she wields intentionally. Male attention is welcome and men’s reactions seem largely innocuous. But her male co-workers’ reactions are objectifying and ultimately may not produce the empowerment Joan desires. Objectification occurs when one person treats another like a thing or commodity, ignoring his or her humanity and dignity. Ob...
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A Rational Checklist Is No Match For Emotions In Matters Of The Heart
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LOVE

A Rational Checklist Is No Match For Emotions In Matters Of The Heart

For many people, there are few things more rewarding than crossing an item off a checklist. But what if the checklist is about your dream partner? And what if the checklist is wrong? Your cold, hard list is no match for hot emotions. Glenn Carstens-Peters/Unsplash, CC BY “Relationshopping” is when you hunt for the perfect partner as if people were products. Online dating, now used by almost 40 percent of Americans who are “single and looking,” might be normalizing this tendency. Often aided by search filters, potential daters seek the perfect combination of attributes rather than focusing on the experience of being with a person. Relationshopping might work if people knew themselves well, but research indicates the contrary. In recent years, psychologists, economists and neuroscientists ...
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Have You Found ‘The One’? How Mindsets About Destiny Affect Our Romantic Relationships
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RELATIONSHIPS

Have You Found ‘The One’? How Mindsets About Destiny Affect Our Romantic Relationships

If you listen to any number of love songs, dating “experts”, or plunge head first into a romance novel, you’re likely to think it’s in our destiny to find that special someone – your soul-mate. But how do you know if you’ve found “the one”? Will the birds sing? Will you see fireworks or a shooting star? And for those who are yet to find “the one”, should you keep searching, or is it a misguided quest? Research into the science of relationships spanning the last two decades shows maintaining a “destiny” mindset – that we are all meant to find that ideal person who completes us in every way – can be problematic for our love lives. Destiny mindsets affect how we evaluate romantic partners, as well as how we maintain lasting relationships. For some, this mindset can even include a mental ...
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MUST READ: Knowing When To End A Relationship
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BREAK UP

MUST READ: Knowing When To End A Relationship

Relationships can enrich our lives, but they can also cause damage. Whether it's a friend, family member, or significant other, any relationship comes with its share of challenges. And more often than not, putting in the effort to resolve relational issues can and does result in a healthier bond. But there are those relationships that, no matter the amount of work and goodwill put into them, will never bring a return on your time or heart investment. These relationships are toxic, and they need to be ended in order for you to heal and move on. 3 Signs the Relationship Needs to End For Example, Are there are More Negative Interactions Than Positive Ones? Every relationship has its good interactions and its not-so-good ones. But there are those relationships that seem like every interact...
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Love In The Time Of Millennials And Generation Z: Hook-Ups, Pansexuals And Holy Connection
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ATTRACTION

Love In The Time Of Millennials And Generation Z: Hook-Ups, Pansexuals And Holy Connection

“That Love is all there is,” wrote Emily Dickinson, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove. Does what we know of love still apply to Australian relationships today – particularly among millennials and Generation Z, whose partnerships and dating behaviours are charting new territories? Review: Heartland: What is the future of modern love? by Jennifer Pinkerton (Allen & Unwin). Online dating, hook-ups, increased access to porn. Chastity movements. Romantic partners across (or regardless of) gender orientations. Polyamory and a still-prevalent belief in monogamy. It’s all part of the modern landscape. Many committed relationships strain and break under the burden of meeting the hopes and dreams of what we imagine to be love. Are th...
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Terrible Love Life – Don’t Blame Dating Apps
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DATING

Terrible Love Life – Don’t Blame Dating Apps

Dating apps are killing dating, or so some people would have you believe. Some journalists have argued that Tinder, Grindr and all the rest have not only “ushered in a new era in the history of romance” but that they are even leading to a “dating apocalypse” by making dating an unpleasant competition for mates instead of a fun search for a partner. You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, narrated by Noa, here. But we can’t solely blame dating apps for the way people use them. Technology has always played a role in courtship rituals, from lonely hearts ads in newspapers to the cars and cinemas that helped shape the romantic trope of taking a date to see a movie. From the emergence of the telephone through to social media, dating culture is bound up and has always coex...
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