21st January 2024
What Dinner With A Friend Society Tells Us About Friendships… And Dating This academic year, we welcomed the Dinner With a Stranger (DWAS) Society to campus, and I took immediate interest. For those unaware, the gist of it is: friendship blind dating. Members, like myself, complete a monthly questionnaire, and are matched up with one ...
7th January 2023
Are there little issues with your situationship niggling away at you? You may be ignoring the less obvious warning signs. Oh, to always feel the way you do in the first few weeks and months of a new relationship. Nothing compares to the magical warmth and elated buzz that accompanies seeing their face, the butterflies ...
7th January 2023
Is social media dictating our relationship problems? Today, in the digital age, social media platforms seem to be taking over our lives. They are our main form of communication, sharing information, and creating content. But is this starting to get in the way of our face-to-face relationships with loved ones? Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok are ...
7th January 2023
A look at man-hating humour and whether it has any consequences, other than the obvious positive ones. If you are a young woman, it’s possible, even likely, that you hear some variation of the exclamation “I hate men!” on an almost-daily basis. Even more likely, arguably, that this exclamation emerges from the mouth of someone ...
25th October 2022
Is it time to rethink the “leagues” framework of dating culture? The world of dating gets progressively messier by the minute. Whether your type is the classic James Dean-esque brunette bad boy, the approachable blonde girl next door, the glasses-wearing geek or even all of the above, we’ve all got our preferences. A framework that ...
18th September 2022
Writer Lorelai Patnaik shares the experience of her foray into the dating world, and discusses the priorities inherent to her standards for romantic attraction as a trans woman of colour. A while ago I wrote about what valentine’s day meant to me, as a trans woman of colour navigating the dating app Grindr. My experience ...
14th March 2022
Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn speaks to Glasgow’s Dr Chris Hand about issues of identity and catfishing in the era of online dating. Over the winter break, I became an avid listener of an investigative podcast series, Sweet Bobby, that examined the murky mistruths of the online dating scene. In the lead-up to Valentine’s Day, I was ...
23rd November 2021
Ishani Mukherjee discusses why age isn’t the most important factor in a relationship. I remember people in my halls obsessing over the relationship that Emmanuel Macron shared with his partner, gasping at the 25-year age difference. I couldn’t help but wonder – does an age gap really matter in a relationship? As long as we ...
25th September 2021
Ishani shares her do’s and don’ts of online dating. There is debate regarding what is an appropriate way to date or casually meet someone. As a fresher, there were whispers through the halls about Tinder’s reputation: it carries the benefits of meeting new people, especially during a time when you want to connect with people ...
30th August 2021
Despite the toxicity, the ITV2 dating show lured us in once again To quote the ever-eloquent Billie Joe Armstrong, “summer has come and passed”; the nights are getting longer, students are returning to their outrageously priced tenements, and Iain Stirling’s shite patter no longer soundtracks my evenings. Love Island series seven has somewhat successfully completed ...
