Here’s how to do scary things without having a whole breakdown first 🫠
(not saying you can’t still have that breakdown afterwards tho hehe 🤫)
Today on stoicism but make it cute, we’re talking about how courage isn’t heroic acts most of the time, but found in quiet, ordinary... See more
As Bates shows, moreover, sexism and anti-immigrant rhetoric often go hand in hand, via the conspiracy theory that foreigners challenge the rightful supremacy of the white male.
Sexism and Anti Immigrant Rhetoric go hand in hand
They are a breeding ground for what she rightly calls the “radicalisation” of young men online. Many incels worship the mass murderer Elliot Rodger, whom they call “the perfect gentleman” for going on a woman-killing spree in revenge for sexual rejection in 2014. Memes such as “feminism is cancer” have become edgy currency among teenage boys Bates... See more
As one activist put it: “Our enemy isn’t women – it’s the role we are forced to play.” Nearly 50 years later, this still sounds like it might be worth a try, especially in a modern culture formed around such ossified, regressive stereotypes that it can seem society has become much more sexist even since the 1990s.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation