Rebecca Traister
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Thing about early-hetero-married-parental model isn't that it is inherently bad or good; that depends on individuals & circumstances. It's that over centuries it has functioned both as an oppressive norm
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As someone who is a) worried about vaccine hesitancy & impact this news might have b) worried about impact instances of clotting might have on same c) aware that Black
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In the actual moment, it turns out that I am just completely and totally gobsmacked that for the first time in American history the United States has elected a woman
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Remarkable interview w Collins, full of self-pity & view of herself as victim of Gideon & Schumer (whom she loves to bring up; can only be natural self-restraint that kept
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Women’s anger at male power abuse regularly presented as path to self-advancement for the women. Voicing fury at systemic degradation is read as opportunistic. Whereas men’s abusive behavior rarely understood
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Thinking a lot about the person who could have been governing Georgia through this pandemic, & who perhaps would have been were it not for systemic voter suppression enabled by
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