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THE FRENCH????????????????????

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this obliterated me

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^this

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whoever created 5+1 things fanfics can have my firstborn child

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People are scornful when a guy appears to not realize Women Are People until he gets married or has a daughter, but I think this is worth examining a little more closely.

when I read A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, I was really struck by his observations about gender. i wish I could remember the quote but he says something like, "do you really have a good relationship with your wife if you aren't almost inclined to call her Brother?" a lot of the things he said seemed like a contrast with the more "gender essentialist" ideas he espouses in for example Mere Christianity

And that's the thing, Mere Christianity and most of his well known fictional works were written before he was married, and the thing about a lot of writers we view today as sexist is that they hardly ever interacted with women as peers.

and like, of course someone would have these ideas about the Nature of Women in contrast to men when in their experience, women inhabit different and in many ways mutually unintelligible social worlds than men.

and of course even today many people make friends and acquaintances primarily among their own gender, and are in environments dominated by one gender or the other, and people insist that this is natural or better or more proper, and this allows people to make observations about the "opposite" gender as an outsider that hasn't had many equal-standing "peer" interactions with that gender

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Anyway, no-fault divorce, easy access to birth control, and abortion on demand all serve to make families stronger, healthier, happier, and more robust, because they allow family to be a matter of choice rather than a means of social control and violence.

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is there any humiliation greater than going out to the mailbox & there's nothing inside so now you've got to make the hero's journey back with no spoils

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I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

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There's apparently a serial killer/string of serial shootings in my mom's hometown. Most of the victims are hispanic males. Weird, as I was recently saying there aren't any serial killers anymore.

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I’m losing my mind at the implications that this show was so gay that two men kissing wasn’t going to add to it’s gayness 

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unpopular opinion maybe but waking up to rain on a quiet weekend is quite literally the most magical thing in the world

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literally why are we still making men shave their chests for movies and tv shows. grow up

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king arthur, if you’re out there, there will never be a funnier time to wake up

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