Is ‘mankeeping’ a common dynamic straining straight relationships?
Researchers have finally named the phenomenon experienced by heterosexual women who’ve been told at least once in their lives, ‘You’re not his therapist.’ Angelica Ferrara and Dylan Vergara from Stanford University published an article on ‘mankeeping,’ which theorizes heterosexual men’s growing dependency on their partners for their emotional needs. According...
Current in Offbeat
Are Gen Z ageing faster than their parents?
Gen Z are known for tempering harmful habits like drinking or smoking, but are they destined to age poorly anyway? If you’re chronically online, you’ll have seen self-deprecating videos from Gen Zers talking about how they’re ageing worse than millennials, but is there any genuine credibility behind the jokes about...
Opinion – the earthquake magnitude scale shouldn’t be logarithmic
Full disclaimer: I’m no scientist. I’m a journalist trying to understand the logic behind measuring earthquakes logarithmically – meaning each whole number increase represents a quake that is 10x stronger – when this isn’t intuitive to the public. Shouldn’t we measure them out of 100 instead? In the early hours...
Are small plates a scam?
I can’t help but wonder whether London’s most fashionable way to eat is leaving us full of regret and not much else. In London’s ever-expanding constellation of small plates restaurants, you’re not really here to eat. You’re here to experience. To share. To marvel at the micro greens. To spend...
Why are we conflating our jobs with our identities?
All work leaves no room for self. So how do we separate our careers from our lives? If you took away your Slack status, your email signature, or your LinkedIn profile, how would you define yourself? In other words, do you know who you are without your career? Whenever I meet...
The fatalism of the ‘lucky girl syndrome’ trend
The autonomous-less fatalism of the 'lucky girl syndrome' trope joins the long list of individualising and infantilising trends adopted by privileged women who present themselves as too incompetent and irrational to engage critically with intellectualism, politics, or financial responsibility. Whether you’re willing to admit it, or (like me) you’re not,...
The average adult reportedly spends 88 days a year on their phone
A new global report from Heineken has concluded that the average adult spends an estimated 88 days a year on their phone. Fancy some terrifying tech news to jolt you out of your seat? Of course you do! New global research by Heineken has found that the average adult spends 88 days a year on their phone. 88 days. If that’s not enough to get you to throw your device...
Opinion – Elon Musk’s vision of fatherhood is unsettling
In a world where wealth shapes everything, even the human gene pool isn’t safe from billionaire influence. I’m approaching this topic with apprehension, because in all honesty I don’t want to give Elon Musk more air time. The billionaire has infiltrated almost every aspect of our daily lives, sitting head of the table across the trifecta; capitalism, patriarchy, and politics. This new breed of the ultra rich, seemingly insatiable for power and...
America ranks lowest ever for global happiness in new report
According to the World Happiness Report 2025, the US is now outside of the top twenty happiest countries in the world. Finland remains at the top once again. Are you happy with where you live? Content with the way your life is going? Slightly suspicious of your government? These types of questions were asked to participants in the World Happiness Report 2025, a yearly study on global wellbeing. Over 140...
The adult wrestling cult
‘you’re breaking the fourth wall!’ Wrestling is massive again, and I’m not quite sure how that happened. Every casual conversation I have with a group of lads seems to inevitably turn to how John Cena recently turned heel. Having not tuned in at 5 in the morning, my immense powers of deduction tell me that his character arc has probably gone from good to bad. I’m 30, my daughter is up at...
