Sam de Brito's first Fairfax column: All men are liars, why won't you believe me?
Sam de Brito was found dead in his Sydney home on Monday morning. In a writing career spanning more than two decades, the 46-year-old regularly wrote columns for Fairfax Media. This was his first, published on August 1, 2006.
- by Sam de Brito
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Why parents should share a bed with their children
Childbirth, breastfeeding, co-sleeping - it's difficult for a male to voice an opinion on these subjects without coming off as telling women what to do with their bodies, so you won't find this caveman going there … except.
- by Sam de Brito
Johnathan Thurston's daughter's dark-skinned doll shouldn't be a big deal
Viewers were "moved" when they saw Frankie Thurston cuddling her black doll, but it shouldn't have been remarkable .
- by Sam de Brito
Earthlings, we already have a red planet
It'll be a shame if we have to find 'nature' on Mars to make us understand 'nature' gets on just fine without humans - in fact, it might get on just fine without our planet altogether.
- by Sam de Brito
A bicycle for our minds, or a bullet?
Love it or loathe it, modern technology should not be ignored.
- by Sam de Brito
Great expectations = 24-hour FOMO
Social media and mobile phones allow kids to compare themselves to the most gorgeous, gifted, privileged, airbrushed, staged people in the world – all the time – thanks to the little resentment machine in their pockets.
- by Sam de Brito
No, you may not have sex with our robot
Put this in the basket of ideas Apple, Hewlett-Packard and IBM computers never had; the creators of the new Pepper social robot have banned buyers from having sex with it.
- by Sam de Brito
Killing pain: Humanity's obsession
If there's a subject guaranteed to get the hypocrites, moralisers and concerned onlookers out in force, it's other people's pleasure, particularly when that pleasure comes in the form of a pill.
- by Sam de Brito
Mansplaining must happen daily in Parliament House - but this wasn't it
Accusations of mansplaining are now so prevalent they've become the female equivalent of men dismissing women's criticism or questions as "nagging". It's snap-my-fingers, shut-up-I-win censorship.
- by Sam de Brito
Fiction, the fact that makes us human
Storytelling is so fundamental in human affairs we often see straight through its significance, much like a fish does the water in which it swims.
- by Sam de Brito
Jarryd Hayne drops the ball: where were you, God?
Jarryd Hayne might be a true believer - but when it comes to religion in the NFL, his competition for the Lord's attention is even tougher than that for a roster spot.
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