Thanks for sharing your story. I’m so glad that you got the right message at the right time that allowed you to keep on living!

May I ask what it took for you to come to terms with balding?

those are definitely two different things! :D

Yes. There are lots of dynamics at play, too though.

Yes. I went into entrepreneurship — it wasn’t the easiest road, but it ultimately was the best for me. It isn’t “in my field” but what I studied helped. I followed my passion. I worked hard — i had two part time day jobs and a side-hustle (baby sitting, dog walking, elder care — all ad hoc). I worked my business and…

good for you! :D

We went to the market today, too — here in NZ - and the feijoas are MASSIVE (like, bigger than my fist?) and aromatic as! and only $3/kilo! Happiness!

Awesome cake!

I think this is real. I worry for my sister and my sister in law since our parents provide a lot for them (cars, home repairs/renovations, medical bills). And it’s strange to me. My sister and her husband earn nearly double what we do — and live in a place with lower cost of living, but have no emergency savings and…

This is rough! I hope you find a job soon, that your partner does also, that everything builds back up, and that you can have your child(ren) soon!

I want to reflect what everyone has already said, and also tell you that you are OK.

congratulations!

I am sending all the good thoughts to you and your baby — that everyone does very well and keeps on thriving!

This is basically it. Each of you are using a different use of “ideology.” Your use is the wider, more general use, while the other poster is looking at the more specific use of ‘ideology’ which is essentially the notion of political ideas without evidence-based foundation.

As ever, I consider your opinion (that this or other statements are ageist) important. So, I went back and read this thread, as well as a couple of others.

The thing that I run into a fair bit among women older than me is that they have no idea about the basics of benevolent/ambivalent misogyny and how they interact with it all day long. They also don’t really get things like “equity.”

Yeah, there were lots of adults reading them.

India is included in the ‘orientalist’ process (i.e, “eastern”). I know for most people it means “far east” instead of “south east” or “middle east” but when orientalism was first practiced during the colonial-victorian eras, all of the “easts” were “oriental.”

I agree with that entirely.

I think the tough thing is that for a lot of teachers, there’s a lot more going on than what the students may realise. Or, maybe that’s for some teachers — because I know a lot of vapid teachers!