Wide wales make you appear thinner. /s
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Depends on how they’re oriented.
I saw your /s, but that’s a thing.
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This piece made me think of discussions we’ve had about the role of higher education (she pursued major accomplishments because she was curious, which ended up helping her in an industry she DIDN’T get her education for), how men in tech have usually made the industry particularly hostile to women, etc.
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This might not be the right thread for this, so @ChickieD please feel free to move it if you think it’s not in the right place… but it does touch on a feminist issue, with regards to body image and eating disorders, but it’s about Christopher Eccleston (and my argument for it being a feminist issue would be how toxic masculinity can hurt men as well as women):
It’s heartbreaking, and hopefully him revealing this can help others (men and women) to get help.
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I would say definitely the right thread. He said it himself: the toxic masculinity treats it like a “woman’s problem”. In that context, it’s treating women as weaker and harming men who don’t dare appear to be feminine in any way, even as performative masculinity literally kills them.
This is why though I still believe women are sexually assaulted more than men, I do not believe that the gap is as great as it appears. Why? Because being sexually assaulted is “a woman’s problem”. If women, who are granted the space (however limited) to be victims don’t report for a myriad of valid reasons, imagine how many men don’t report. Look at all the organizations where we’re finally seeing patterns of abuse against boys and men going back decades – kept extra secret by the extra pressure to just “cowboy up” and “be a man”. To the point where they deny even to themselves what happened.
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And that’s so common for anyone who’s been a victim. It’s so mind-bending.
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Whoa.
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This is, unfortunately, very relatable.
But there really are some good hints in here.
https://narratively.com/the-women-in-my-family-had-to-be-good-with-money/
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My husband had an eating disorder and it was just brutal to deal with because there was no way to get a “real man” to even admit what he was doing to himself.
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Isn’t that just another case of some white dudes cribbing from oppressed groups for their own agenda? Or corporation cooption of radical ideas?
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I don’t it was even that conscious, but yes.
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It took me decades to say something.
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Now, I’m sure you pay your employees handsomely, Atlanta (and that you’ve made very sure that there’s no pay gap between your male and female staffers), so it’s probably true that paying 25 cents a tampon is not cost-prohibitive for any of them. It is also true that the realization that you don’t have a quarter and your period has come a day early is among the worst feelings in the world.
Your well-compensated employees also could surely afford their own snacks, but you have made the wise decision that offering some options is a cheap and easy way to make people more satisfied at work. Now you want to undo all that good will by telling a significant portion of those people that you can’t “justify” the cost of products they need for their physical health. A box of 96 tampons will run you 15 bucks at Costco, which is a small price to pay to not look like a total jerk.
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Choose the fabric to suit the occasion.
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Jockeys used to, and for all I know still do, vomit before weigh-in. Ever see “Seabiscuit”, with Tobey Maguire?
(and for some reason, I almost typed “seent”, lol)
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Even though it’s about a woman in an abusive marriage, still about being kept down by a man.
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How did I not know that was an Alice Cooper song?
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