and that people who are doing important hard work (like you) aren’t on the brink of needing help yourself constantly.
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As someone who has worked with survivors of domestic violence and as someone who is below the poverty line (because I chose a career that works with survivors of domestic violence), these articles feel like such a heavy “should” that so many can't accomplish. I appreciate your acknowledgment that this is a pipe dream…
Even beyond what they know or don’t know or have been told, there’s often far more overriding concerns that make their decision for them. He played football because his parents wanted him to. They thought he’d get an education. They thought health issues would be multiple decades down the road (instead of just over…
I was a hockey player, wrestler, & BJJer only through high school (had to stop from this) I had countless concussions before we really knew to handle them right. I’m just 29 & have PCS, short term memory problems, confusion & focus problems in cognition, among lots of other issues. I have to write myself notes to…
Baseball is not so innocent. One of the fallouts of CTE is ALS. Someone did some research into Lou Gehrig’s career and uncovered all the injures he had and all the concussions he had from sliding into a base or home, getting beaned in the head, etc... ALS has 2 types, one related to CTE and the other is heridetary.…
Stories like this are really important for people who wave away concerns about concussions with “they knew what they were getting into when they chose football.” They really, really didn’t. When most of today’s pro players started out in the game, they knew about the possibility of physical damage but the neurological…
If Colbert really cares about examining his white privilege he could try diversifying his all-white, mostly male writing staff.
I kept telling the same jokes about why I wasn’t having kids because people kept asking me why I wasn’t having kids. Maybe the interviews she’s doing this year keep bringing up her ‘outsider’ status in Hollywood. Maybe she looks around at awards shows and notices no one is eating. Who knows.
I think it’s all of the above. I guarantee her weight has always been an “issue” if she were to go to acting exclusively. Case in point, Ron Howard’s daughter having one size 6 option gown sent to her for the Golden Globes, hence she bought off the rack. It’s not subtle...every actress famous r is the same size with…
It is frustrating. I think of conservatives as more feelers than thinkers. Instead of using their brain to think about an issue, they just react. They think they are thinking, but it’s just like, “I feel in my heart conservative politics work, therefore this is a fact, therefore if conservatism has failed, we must not…
Direct cash payments to the poor are—by far—the most effective method of fighting endemic poverty. Not only do they build on local systems of knowledge, but moreover they are far more cost efficient and much easier to manage. All with added benefit of stripping out the disdainful paternalism to permeates so many other…
This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.
Two years ago, I was hired as a campaign coordinator for a community initiative in South L.A. I got the job because…
Computer Science isn’t about computers.
Really? I was also a comp-sci major (BS only, though) and wound up using a variety of different machines during my career, but it’s not like there’s a class where they sit you down and say “here’s how to put a CD in a drive.” If you know how to write software, they assume you can figure it out.
Oh, I’m not saying I’d be fired enough to write, I’m just saying I can understand the frustration. I’m sure people watching #RichKidsofBeverlyHills wouldn’t exactly be pumped to get an update about ISIS from Lakshmi Singh either.
Right, I mean...how would people feel about Terry Gross showing up in the middle of their E! show to talk about quinoa farmers or something?
I consider myself blessed that I have never actually heard her voice, and if it snuck up on me in a context where I had actually felt safe, I have to admit that I would not be very happy about it. I would have turned the show off. (And I love Wait, Wait.)
This all seems whiney on the one hand, yes, but that person who said “I listen to NPR to avoid stuff like the Kardashians”...I get that person’s feel.