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Bibliophile & Language Lover. I live with one foot in 🇺🇸 and the other in 🇮🇹, but I must confess I left my heart in 🇪🇸 Read my stories here: https://authoroliverella.substack.com/
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In the meantime, feel free to read chapters 1-15 available on my Substack. I guess I'll go back to S1E1 of "The Handmaid's Tale" to occupy my mind... I can justify feeling anxious and tearing up about those fictional women. If I think about us, real women in the real world, I'll have a breakdown 😢
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His father would have *loved* this picture... Wasn't that his brother's dream, to be a pilot? 🧐
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Everything they do is just for show because they're little, insecure, and petty.
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...and that's exactly what we're witnessing when lawmakers use binary conventions and take away the rights of trans people.
Simply put, one's right to their identity ends when it interferes with someone else's right to their identity. [7/7]
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...especially in detriment to a third party's right to access such service. In short, trans people just want to have the same rights as cis people―not more, not less. The same is not true when someone uses their identity to *take away* the rights of people who are of a different identity... [6/7]
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I can understand their excusing themselves from that duty if a co-worker can perform it in their stead; however, were they the only professional available in that capacity, they cannot put their identity (i.e. religious belief) ahead of the service they were hired to provide... [5/7]
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A clear distinction should be made that, for example, a Christian who works as a county clerk and is personally against same-sex marriage should not ban same-sex marriages in their county by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [4/7]
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"It's against my religion," they say when trying to justify their prejudice, lack of understanding, and their inaction/action in a professional capacity. Because they identify as XYZ, they use such identity to impose their beliefs on others and justify proposed bans, actions, or inactions. [3/7]
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One thing stood out to me in this article because, potentially, it could be abused by those with ill intentions. “If we’re not applying our identity to our work, we’re going to get it wrong.” This is exactly the same argument that religious zealots weaponize against whatever they wish to ban. [2/7]
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Or pass a citizenship test (after paying a fee that's very steep for common folk... Is it $700 per person now?)
Or get good grades in English (their 1st language...)
These are two things they'd accuse immigrants of failing to do in order to "assimilate," right? Who's making America great again? 🧐
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Glad to contribute to your English vocabulary quest!
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Downfall for downfall, Depp's is rather innocuous 🤷♀️
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That's unfair. This A.I. generated kid is actually cute. With enough love from his family, he wouldn't grow up to be the waste-of space narcissist that has created such a dangerous mess in the world 🤮
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"bUt hEr EmAiLs!"
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"bUt hEr EmAiLs!"
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"bUt hEr EmAiLs!"
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"bUt hEr EmAiLs!"
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"bUt hEr EmAiLs!"
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Wow! I had no idea and I just had some as a treat after lunch 😁
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This fine portrait seems to be exactly why Sebastian Stan was told to eat cheap instant noodles (i.e. loads of sodium) to get the puffy-face look for his portrayal of this man-child in "The Apprentice" 🧐
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They accuse others of doing exactly what they're doing just to shift focus from their own actions.
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He has his grandpa's ears.
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Slapping tariffs all over is only bad when someone else is doing it, right? 🧐 Canadian tariffs? Bad. U.S. tariffs? Good. Okay, got it!