Tag: sexism
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what you made me feel
the fortune teller On high school graduation day a teacher asked me to stay after class. He sat me down, and took my hand, and said, “I want to tell you your fortune.” I looked at him expectantly. “So high school is over, and you didn’t go to prom, and you weren’t a popular girl.…
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How Phyllis Schlafly Made Me a Feminist
During my very brief stint just out of high school as an evangelical Christian, I tried with the committed desperation of the newly converted to coax my parents to church so they too could receive the Good News Of Jesus Christ. My father was immovable. My mother, who for years had attended seven a.m. Mass…
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GTA and Witcher and Women
There’s been a lot of thievery and magicky swordplay going on about what we lovingly refer to as Casa de Pepe the last few weeks as my husband and I immerse ourselves in GTA and The Witcher, respectively. We bought swanky new video cards just for the event and, unusually for us, hide under headphones…
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