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Recovering snob, snark enthusiast, once and future writer. In my offline life, I run a small farm and listen to multiple audiobooks a week. She/her
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The “who gets hurt if I’m wrong” feels particularly helpful and also scary, tbh.
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Her point was that when you make a choice you want, regardless of what other people might expect of you, you invite other people to do the same. When you mix up tradition and obligation, you shake things up for people and give give them an opportunity to grow.
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You’re not asking for advice, but as someone who is incredibly picky about both a) swim bottoms and b) literally anything I buy new, I feel compelled to recommend these bottoms www.belasolclothing.com/products/sun.... Pricey but literally the best bathing suit I’ve ever owned.
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All of this, plus the script is unusually good. Someone else mentioned Luthen’s monologue, and whew.
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Right! And this becomes a catch-22 where protesters are incentivized to become more provocative (accumulate arrests) for coverage— or where their frustration at not being heard or seen becomes a tinder box that can easily lead to rioting— and this escalation is then used to discredit the movement.
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But do you ever notice how much NPR covers, like, the March for Life, and other right-leaning protests? Full 15 minute segments interviewing the attendees! Took them 2 months to pick up the DAPL protest. I have as many NPR coffee mugs as the next liberal arts grad, but 🙄
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Sure, I didn’t just wake up to this reality. But it doesn’t stop being hard or personally painful to understand this about the person who raised you.
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You don’t understand half of what’s wrong with the books until you see what really intelligent and thoughtful writers can do with those characters.
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Turns out the “Don’t tread on ME” actually doesn’t mean they’ll get up in arms when the state treads on YOU.
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Right, like forest for the trees, people!
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I'm not being pedantic here. For the last 40 years we've been pushed to define productivity as one thing - makes the most money for the "economy" but that isn't what a government is supposed to do. The whole point of the government is to provide for it's citizens.
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I feel fine about a trans woman coming into a female change room. I honestly doubt I would realise they were trans in most cases. I don’t feel threatened by trans women. I do by men. I hate the thought of trans women being abused in men’s change rooms. Seems a cruel idea to force this on them.
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I’ve been adding “Reddit” to any query (mostly using duck duck go, but sometimes google with along with “-ai”), because if I can find a Reddit thread on a topic, I can at least be more confident that an actual human expert was involved in writing the reply 🤷🏻♀️ (2011 Tabby would be appalled)