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Elizabeth Kantor
@ElizabethKantor
Freelance book editor and writer. Author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to English Lit and and the Jane Austen Guide. Follows don't constitute endorsements.
Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@TPCarney I 100% agree with @Noahpinion on this one. We cut pizza with kitchen scissors.
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This is like the "nobody has sex on their wedding night" take.
It's a completely confident assertion that is totally at odds with normal experience.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
The "pizza cutter" is the most useless invention of all time. It does not actually cut pizza -- the single task for which it was designed. Nor is it useful for any other task.
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Too many people don’t see the problem with the constant blaming and shaming of men in society. It’s so normalized, they shrug. It’s a cultural disease. When you see it, you can’t unsee it, and you realize how it’s fueling so many of our problems today.
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Polling shows a clear gap in how each sex views the other:
72% of men have a positive view of women.
Only 50% of women have a positive view of men.
That means half of women hold a neutral or negative view.
21% of women have an actively negative view of men.
Only 7% of men say the same about women.
That’s a 3x difference.
If women view men more negatively than the reverse... who’s really driving the gender divide?
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@Defensofidei "If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
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An honest question: Why do many people have a strong dislike for the Catholic Church?
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Misandry goes viral constantly. A steady drumbeat of shaming and blaming men framed as female empowerment. This isn’t on the fringes. It’s everywhere, poisoning the minds of women every day. It needs to stop.
Libriscent@libriscent
I just heard someone on TikTok say "this is the first time in history women are dating men for their character. And that's why no one is dating." and she was right.
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I’ve never met anyone far-right who wasn’t EXTREMELY stupid. Grandiose and well-read, that exists, but even press lightly against the surface and you get sweeping category error, poor comprehension, and poor source analysis.
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Both sides are right, because both of the principles below are true:
1) If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
2) I a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
anna💐@anniee_0216
I didn’t know the context before I saw this photo, and I think the heart matters the most here? They went to mass to start the marathon with Jesus, yes you could say some people could’ve brought anything to cover up slightly. But imagine this, you’re going to run with your friend, the friend is not catholic but decides to go to mass with you. The friend converts after experiencing the catholic mass for the first time. I think we need to be a little less judgmental.
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I have to say, tho, as the wife of a teacher, he works virtually every waking minute during the school year. I was a salaried employee for years and managed salaried employees, I freelance now. I work a lot, but schoolteaching is honestly above and beyond.
Ruth Joy@RuthJoy96960173
Not sure why teachers assume that they are the only ones who work outside contract hours. It's the difference between being a salaried and hourly employee. Everyone who goes into teaching knows - - or should know - - that they will have to take care of things outside school hours. It's a choice freely made.
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Not sure why teachers assume that they are the only ones who work outside contract hours. It's the difference between being a salaried and hourly employee. Everyone who goes into teaching knows - - or should know - - that they will have to take care of things outside school hours. It's a choice freely made.
Jen@jlpoober
Everyone loves to remind teachers about summer. Fine. Let's do the math. This week I worked nearly 60 hours. 6:30 arrival. Unpaid lunch with kids in my room. Covered PE — I teach Spanish. Graded vocab tests Friday night. Graded a children's book project on Saturday. Turned one into a movie and posted it for the class. Five hours of lesson planning today. The standard work week is 40 hours. The extra 20? Unpaid. Some weeks, the grading is lighter. Some weeks it's worse. This is not the worst week I've had. But yes. I get summers off.
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@SarahIronside6 I take it that by "brilliant," you mean obnoxiously disingenuous?
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"Oh, do you think he was referring to you?" will go down in history as one of the most brilliant interview questions ever asked.
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Fact check: Toxic femininity. Do you really not notice that men gain pleasure from protecting women and children and inventing things that benefit the whole human race?
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The particulars of the division of labor in my marriage are different, but--as was normal in a traditional marriage--my husband turns over his whole paycheck to me, and I pay all the bills and buy everything for the household. I work now, but I stayed home when our son was little. That's my real life, and it has worked pretty well.
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@ElizabethKantor Sounds very nice on paper, very sketch in real life.
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I can’t be convinced that women being stripped of financial independence is worth whatever this is.
Kevin Dahlstrom@Camp4
When we got engaged, my wife had lots of credit card debt. She took a second job, moved in with her parents, and made her last payment the month we got married. Then she promptly quit her jobs and hasn’t seen a bill in 28 years. She swipes the card, and it just works. Likewise, I’ve never had to think about the kids’ basic needs or what’s for dinner. That stuff (and a lot more) just happens. This division of duties has made for a great life… but here’s the best part: 🤝 We both think we got the better end of the deal.
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The 11 world wars:
1. Greece (250 BC). Alexander the Great. Owned that planet for a bit.
2. Rome (0 AD) did the same but more biblical. Many statues remain.
3. Middle Ages (800 - 1899 AD). The europoors basically never stopped fighting.
4. Napoleon and Russia (unknown). I haven’t looked at this closely but that’s at least two continents, so.
5. American Revolution (1776 AD). Not just two countries! All the Brits were German hires. The French helped the Americans. That’s a good chunk of the world.
6. The Great War (1914ish). The whole “World War 1” was more of a branding thing for merch than anything else.
7. WW 11, also sometimes called WW II (1939-46 AD). Involved several important nations and also Canada.
8. Cold War (1946 - present). Spilled into Nam, Cambodia, Korea, China, Cuba. Perhaps also Canada I don’t know.
9. Ongoing Middle East F**kery (4000 BC - present).
10. China Pissing Me Off (1953 - present).
11. AI Destroys Humanity Setting Off Every Nuke Simultaneously and Everyone Dies and the Only People Who Survive Are Alexandria Daddario and Me and We Must Repopulate the World (May 2026 - 2085).
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