Given that racism and misogyny are often co-morbid, he’s probably racist.

Can’t unsee that moose knuckle

He looks like one of those MRAs who likes to call women “fat” and feels he deserves a tall, thin, blonde no matter how little effort he puts into his own looks.

Christ on a bike, what the hell am I looking at here!?!?!?!!??! Is this a hazing of some sort? Wha...? Context, Noble!!!!

No but I do believe in assholes who comment online from their parents’ dank basements. They’re much worse, anyways.

“Unlike someone with a genuine interest in the practice/discipline, it’s a commodification and appropriation of another culture.”

I too have done this. A former therapist (licensed, certified, diplomas on the wall) of mine used past life regression therapy on some patients with phobias.

Wtf? Madeline very specifically states that she wasn’t led, other than requests to look around and describe. How does this mesh with the idea that the information about social anxiety directed the course of events? You seem *pressed* to turn this into snake oil salesman territory but aside from offering a possibly…

Just to add re the “morning pages”: when trying this, in my experience it’s most effective to minimize the time and distractions after waking and dive right in when you are still in that brief zone when you still remember at least a hint of dreams and have not yet clicked into the practical mode of planning tasks for…

I am not someone who believes in...anything, really. But I think everyone has that one thing that makes them wonder. I have two. Both happened when I was a small child (so beginning when I was maybe 3 or 4), and both were ongoing.

Some people read more thoroughly than others.

I did this once with many of the same reservations and was astonished at how physically and emotionally intense it was. I have a pretty good imagination, but this was nothing like a day dream — everything felt much more tangible and vivid than even regular dreams, starting with the intense physical feeling of my…

Thank you for posting this interesting piece. I don’t believe in an afterlife or a god, but I do believe our brain is multilayered and that finding ways to carefully enhance communication with the layers under the loud surface one can be helpful in solving problems and gaining insights. The lower layers seem to…

“The dead outnumber the living, in a ratio that could be as high as 20 to 1,” a demographer, Nathan Keyfitz, wrote in a 1991 letter to the historian Justin Kaplan. “Credible estimates of the number of people who have ever lived on the earth run from 70 billion to 100 billion.” Averaging those figures puts the total…

Great piece, Madeleine! Very interesting to hear your thoughts on it.

It took me decades to even learned that I had learned it.

“Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”

My recollection of US history is strangely vague on this - but why would there be a confederate monument in Arizona?

Gorka is what happenes when Stephen Segal’s pony tail and Herman Goering have a baby with fetal alcohol syndrome. I could not agree with you more.

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.