Emily Bazelon gave a brilliant TED Talk about how an empathy deficit affects autistic women/girls significantly more than men/boys. A lot of it is based on the inability to live up to cultural expectations. Girls are expected to understand how other people think and feel and are socially punished for failing to have…
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[...] and at best you have zero social awareness [...]
Still is declared valedictorian because the only other options were women.
if anyone needs me, i’ll be at the gym.
It’s even worse in a world where social media is more encompassing than ever. At least when I was in Elementary/Middle school (I’m 24), I was able to run home and get away from those who hurt me and not have to face those people again until the next day. Nowadays, even kids have a Facebook, so the hate can follow you…
My sympathies. Making this transition must be difficult enough; the last thing you need is some jamoke deciding that he needs to “perteckt” his delicate lady friends or his manly self and getting in your face.
Replying to get you out of the gray. ♥ (And have a Follow too!)
This sudden regression to the vilification of transgender people must be a nightmare come true for the many who’ve found the courage (and what they thought was support) to come out over the last few years. They’ve gone from out and open to dangerously exposed within just a few months. Yet another reason to fear the…
I’m going to agree, but also go with giving credit where credit is due. She objected and that’s like a bazillion times more than I expected from her in the first place.
trump is a moron who made a deal with russia because he thought he would get rich quick. Dummy trump didnt realize he was a pawn in a much bigger and more dangerous political game. Dummy trump is fucking up so bad that he’s ruining both his own plan and putins plan. We may get out of this alive.
You just KNOW it was more about “letting people at Mar-A-Lago see how cool and important he is” than it was about actual national security. “Ooh looky me I’m president doing president stuff!” (Meanwhile Bannon pulls out a literal camera to hold over classified docs while Toddler In Charge smug mugs for the camera).
yeah but how else was Putin supposed to make a decision about all this? leaders need to be informed.
until parents and county residents began complaining to the school board
They really are the same, Trump and Hillary. I was assured of this fact all last year. So I’m sure that if we want to know what it would have been like with her as president, just take a red pen to your monitor and replace his name with hers.
Yes, but they were in AMERICA. In America, we clamp down on your hand like a vice, stare directly into your eyes as a display of dominance and shake until a little bit of poop falls out.
Like you said, you’re not American.