Rachel Edwards
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Fan of economic growth, theatre, spreadsheets, beautiful places, & parties 🪻 Ops/events for @StripePress & @WorksInProgMag 📚
C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:
"A Child Was Born", 1977. Photograph: Sergey Vasilyev
men who date women: would you prefer a partner who A. tries too hard (plastic surgery and lip filler, makeup, etc), or B. not hard enough (pajamas, unbrushed hair)?
Most women underrate how much men care about looks. And when they do try to get more attractive they waste time and effort on tanning, contouring their face, getting their nails done. Instead, almost everyone could be considered attractive if they lost weight, grew their hair long, and cleared up their skin. All these things are within your control. There's other basic advice that should be obvious. Wear makeup everyday and go for a youthful, dewy look. Remove your body hair. Ditch your glasses. For the extreme looksmaxxers, focus on your body. Your face is probably fine and hard to change. Get a boob job, precisely control your weight, and do hourglass-enhancing exercises. You are no longer stuck with the looks God gave you. ariababu.co.uk/p/get-sexier
Most women underrate how much men care about looks. And when they do try to get more attractive they waste time and effort on tanning, contouring their face, getting their nails done. Instead, almost everyone could be considered attractive if they lost weight, grew their hair long, and cleared up their skin. All these things are within your control. There's other basic advice that should be obvious. Wear makeup everyday and go for a youthful, dewy look. Remove your body hair. Ditch your glasses. For the extreme looksmaxxers, focus on your body. Your face is probably fine and hard to change. Get a boob job, precisely control your weight, and do hourglass-enhancing exercises. You are no longer stuck with the looks God gave you. ariababu.co.uk/p/get-sexier
People hate the tone of this piece, but my view is you don't need a journalist to tell you wrong things are wrong. (She does also call her thieving friends nihilists.) It's weird to be surrounded by thieves though -- if people I know steal from Whole Foods, they don't admit it.
British wildlife will replace historical figures on the next series of Bank of England banknotes - and the public will get their say on which animals and birds will appear. On #BBCBreakfast Peter Ruddick explained why it's the end people such as Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and Alan Turing on new £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Excl: Ministers are facing a rebellion over plans to curb degrading pornography after the government announced it would ban incest porn but allow material depicting “step-incest” relationships to remain legal. Senior Labour women told The Times they felt “betrayed” by the government and would not vote down an amendment which forced ministers to go further. The government confirmed the policy during debates on the Crime and Policing Bill in the House of Lords, where ministers introduced amendments to criminalise the possession or publication of pornographic images depicting sexual activity between close family members. Ministers said the move implemented one of the key recommendations from the independent review of pornography led by Baroness Bertin. However, the government confirmed that the offence would not apply to material depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives, and were then defeated with peers backing Bertin's amendment which went further. Multiple senior women in the party said the government would face a rebellion when the Bill returned to the Commons if they attempted to remove Bertin’s amendment. One told The Times: “I feel quite betrayed by it, how they pretended they were pushing ahead and accepting all of Gabby [Bertin’s] recommendations, only to whip us to back step-incest. I’ve never heard of anything like it.” A senior MP added: “If they think women who have been campaigning for years are going to toddle through the lobbies to say ‘yes actually step-incest porn is okay’ then they’re even less connected from reality than I thought.” An MoJ spokesman said: “We will reflect on the debates so far, and continue our work until we have fulfilled our promise to halve violence against women and girls.”
there's something so chic about a telephone seat
Dating and ‘professional contexts’ takes. 1. Most conferences do drinks and social things. In fact, the point of conferences isn’t to exchange information, it’s to get the people to know each other in a more vivid and personal way. 2. There’s a lot of space between ‘booking a 1-2-1’ to all someone out (cringe and bad) and flirting at the coffee station. 3. You’re a freak if your professional and personal lives are totally separate. I’m friends with my colleagues and I always have been everywhere I’ve worked. You’re also a bad networker. 4. This is especially true for Effective Altruism, politics, progress, art etc. Anywhere where your work is a calling and hobby as well as just a job. 5. The goal shouldn’t be 0 discomfort for anyone ever. Not to give Haidt any credit, but it’s not the worst thing in the world to reject an unwanted advance and we’re coddling young people. There are more precious and important things in the world than this form of safety. It’s cowardly for institutions to be so risk averse that they try to ban love. If people meet romantically at work/conferences they take on some of the downside risk of people being uncomfortable and get none of the upside of people being happier and more fulfilled. CEA doesn’t care if you struggle to connect with people on the apps. They do care if you do a mean comment about them on the forum.
