When I was a teenage girl who wasn’t shy about pointing out the advantages I didn’t have, I was surrounded by teenage boys who weren’t shy about telling me, “Stop whining and just do something about it.” I took their advice. I studied the people who had the social standing I wanted, which in my [...]
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January 2008
This is a must read thread. It’s unfortunately closed down now, but the comments alone gave me immense amounts of ideas to think about.
You go to a doctor, and she or he treats you like you’re a disgusting waste of time because you should’ve known that rash you have that looks exactly like eczema was actually some obscure parasite from the Bolivian jungle (where you’ve never been). Your car’s broken into, and even though you locked it and [...]
“Won’t somebody please think of the children???” – The preacher’s wife on the Simpsons I recently made the mistake of engaging in a business transaction with a Christian who believes that, because s/he is a Christian everything s/he does is unquestionably the Lord’s work, s/he cannot possibly have done me wrong. It’s not the first [...]
