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If you want to love a wild woman, ____________

If you want to love a wild woman, it cannot be with the goal to domesticate her, with the idea that she just needs comfort and to be told she’s beautiful, with the same intent men use to excuse attraction to virginity. If you love a wild woman, it cannot…

Feminism

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If you want to love a wild woman, ____________
If you want to love a wild woman, ____________
Feminism

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You live here because

You live here because you bought it, and now you’re in limbo. It’s not the dream you thought it would be, but untangling the knot would be too complicated, and staying, well, staying is not that bad, but it’s not what you want, what you thought, what you dreamed. You…

Fiction

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You live here because
You live here because
Fiction

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Here is how I release cords when exes want my energy.

Here is how I cut cords when exes want my energy — First, I remind myself not to feel bad for them, that they chose their lives, and that I cannot and should not fix another human being. Then I wipe the soul molasses slime off my arms. It’s filled…

Mental Health

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Here is how I release cords when exes want my energy.
Here is how I release cords when exes want my energy.
Mental Health

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You Can’t Good Girl Your Way To Respect

Do you remember Esther Crawford of Twitter? She was the product head of Twitter Blue, and a photo of her sleeping on the floor of Musk’s Twitter made the rounds with the tag #sleepwhereyouwork. Some people lauded her as a woman who “knew what it meant” to work hard. …

Equality

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You Can’t Good Girl Your Way To Respect
You Can’t Good Girl Your Way To Respect
Equality

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Three Phone Calls With Mom

“Hello?” “Hi, mom.” “Tay?” “No, it’s Jessie.” “You’re calling from Tay’s phone, though.” “I’m not, mom. You need to get your eyes checked.” “They still say I can drive.” “Yeah, that says more about the DMV than your vision.” “Don’t be fresh with me.” “I actually have a question. …

Fiction

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Three Phone Calls With Mom
Three Phone Calls With Mom
Fiction

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Published in “Are you okay?”

·9 hours ago

Why Resorts Are Racist Garbage

I know an American woman who wanted to come to Costa Rica and stay at a resort. Since she has three kids, it made sense: No cooking, no cleaning, no taxis. Just beach and sunshine. She’s also Latina, and after a night there, she started to notice something. White guests…

Travel

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Why Resorts Are Racist Garbage
Why Resorts Are Racist Garbage
Travel

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·21 hours ago

you seem to like sad stories about women

you seem to like sad stories about women. you seem to like stories and hypothetical situations where they are abused, tortured, prevented from learning, forced into marriages. you seem to like sad stories about women. you never really say you like it, but you get to act real smug, maybe…

Women

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you seem to like sad stories about women
you seem to like sad stories about women
Women

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·1 day ago

Here’s Why I Can’t Date You.

I would have to put on pants and leave the house. I don’t really want you to know where I live, and I don’t want to go to your place in case you’re a murderer, so that just leaves hotels, and do you know how much bacteria is in a…

Humor

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Here’s Why I Can’t Date You.
Here’s Why I Can’t Date You.
Humor

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·2 days ago

And here’s how the internet pushes people out like mustard.

AI finds a list of jobs, of agents, so managers bury their application process deep in lingo, colors of the day, directions only a desperate human would care to read. AI asks the questions and answers them, finds the LinkedIn profiles, sends the cordial notes, then reads the notes and…

Humor

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And here’s how the internet pushes people out like mustard.
And here’s how the internet pushes people out like mustard.
Humor

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Published in “Are you okay?”

·3 days ago

Here’s Why I’m Smarter Than You.

I’m not going to that protest; it’s a scam. See, here’s why I’m smarter than you. Those are just bots, and I know the truth. That’s why I’m smarter than you. I left a nasty comment, and you reacted: So I’m more rational than you. I insulted you and called…

Conspiracy

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Here’s Why I’m Smarter Than You.
Here’s Why I’m Smarter Than You.
Conspiracy

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Lisa Martens

Lisa Martens

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