This is amazing. For men, addiction tends to exist on a spectrum - they use more and more and more until they have a real problem. For women that’s often not the case; the majority go from 0 to addicted with the differentiation being (in more than 80% of women with addiction) emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. But…

I was in the Midwest and moved to the East Coast. On the coast everyone I know who owns got the downpayment from their parents. In the Midwest it’s around 60% got help from parents. 

“...they want to police speech that might draw attention to what utter intellectual frauds they are—relying on perceived superiority to maintain the truly privileged and comfortable position that they know, deep down, they’re not working hard enough to deserve.”

This is just...the most breathtakingly concise and true…

Hoo boy, Rich really got triggered over The Man and the presumption that rich, successful women might still receive more blowback and criticism than men in similar positions. “The Biebs gets criticized too!” is not a hill to die on.

I (a female POC) learned, through my last job in tech, to not trust HR with a complaint. My male boss made inappropriate comments to me during a one-on-one. I reported it to HR (a female POC). The next week MY performance was called into question as, in the interim, my boss had gone to 6 of my female (possibly 1 male) …