So a little over 1.5 years ago I received an email from a young lady with a proposal to translate my debut children's novel into IsiNdebele
I could not pay her for the job so we concluded a writer/translator agreement where she will receive royalties out of the net sales proceeds
@UMngomezulu_ Grootman, The Beach, introduced me to your sound. Kodwa after @Fatso_Mpyatona and @UMngomezulu_ I thought I was a [made men] until..... 🫢 I will listen and let you know when I tap out of this #DeepHouse
So I have been playing game for a while. Never thought about playing online. And when I did, it was short lived. It was today when I tried to play in a competition, did I learn that WIFI sucks and LAN is king 😭😭
This is how White people do documentaries about Africa. They intentionally only show the underdeveloped parts, to perpetuate the 'psychological defeatism' they want the collective global Black people to feel.
The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings.
The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy.
Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain.
We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.