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For Thought: Why Religious Tools Don’t Work For Women
Why Religious Tools Don't Work For Women
2024 Election: The true anti-hero is never the average American.
Despite American fantasies about the anti-hero — characters who are morally ambiguous, flawed, or complex, who don't fit the traditional mold of a "hero" and have no delusions of the hero complex — and how this fascination spans across all forms of media in its exploration of conflicting moral themes and cultural skepticism, most Americans …
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Men work for access to women. Women work to be free of men.
"Wu suggests that young men may be bowing out of the job market altogether rather than continuing in the proverbial dead-end job because they see it as potentially sullying their social status and marriage prospects, especially among younger workers." https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2022/12/14/labor-shortage-crisis-its-not-just-low-wages-men-are-sick-of-low-status-jobs-too/?sh=7121dfd82656
The Self-Inflicted Tragedy of Not Recognizing Our Desires Realized
Years ago, when I was in my late 20s, I had a throwaway conversation with a misogynistic man who was trying to see me. The exchange was about three sentences each. I knew I was uninterested in him the minute he opened his mouth. But what I took away from the encounter is simple, humorous, …
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We can only hope to have faith as strong as the Palestinians.
The Purpose of Sin
I've been asking myself why we sin. Not the technicality, like free will or the ability to choose. I mean what purpose does sin serve? What's the point? On some level, the fact that the All-Forgiving forgives makes sin seem... redundant. Why allow it only to forgive it? And when is it punished, rather than …