Category: feminism
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Bullying Followup #1
The trouble with writing constantly about teenagers as though they are people is that they inevitably talk back, also as if they are people, and then you have to have yourself a think. I got an amazing letter from a kid this week about the bullying stuff, heavily excerpted below, and apparently my response to…
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How It Gets Better
I’ve gotten a lot of heat over the years for the things I say about bullying, because there’s not really an open entree to say everything I think at once, and it’s kind of a large subject. So when I was writing about this week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars, which is a pretty amazing…
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The 5 TV Characters You Are Way Too Close To
I was going to do another pretentious religious post today but I had a great conversation with a friend tonight about the move from identifying with characters to identifying with story, which is a major topic that you can’t attack all at once. So I will ask you, to start with: What or who are…
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Stopping At The Revelation
I think it says something that most of these posts have begun with some variation on, “Here’s where I fucked up” or “What people don’t seem to get is…” What I think it says is that I am still learning how to have an opinion without being convinced that the world would work a lot…
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What Is & What Should Be
The hardest-won and most important lessons you learn tend to be the ones that become part of your firmware: You can come to posit or impute them so easily that you forget to show your work. I’m not talking about the things that ossify to the point that you should be examining them here —…