Here’s how to deal with a few of the most common ones. Table of contents: The Fabulous Bestie The Know It All and Tell It All The Druggie The Heartthrob The Misogynist The Conundrum The Party Animal Quiz: Discover Your School Dude Personality 1/5 How do you spend your free time?
Like the Roman General Pompey said, “Don’t quote laws to men with swords.” When you’re dealing with a hater, you can either 1) Completely ignore them, or 2) Attack them back. This is doubly true on social media. When someone calls you a misogynist, for example, if your reaction...
It strikes me that this sequence is pretty much the way we learn lots of things that have theoretical and practical components. For instance, driving a car. Typically, you begin with a bit of theory, during which an instructor, or a book, tells you the things that it is proper to “de...
In 2022, Robert Sarver, the owner of the Phoenix Suns, was fined and banned from the NBA for a year due to racist and misogynist behavior that took place over the course of 18 years. 3 COVID-19 and the NBA Bubble On March 11th, 2020, the NBA shut down all games in response to ...
What you said about GamerGate is interesting. Similar to the misogynist response to the 2016Ghostbustersmovie, do you think some perpetually online bros will get upset about the Warriors’ gender swap? Miranda: Maybe. Probably. I know none of those people have seen this movie more than...
“I don’t want to be condescended to with strong, independent female characters who don’t have any flaws and are just kinda perfect and sane and never make bad relationship choices,” she said. “For me, the freedom Harley’s been given to be a fuck-up is much less misogynist than...
areoffensivemoves employed by the covert-aggressive to either maintain a position of power, gain power, or remove an obstacle from getting what he wants. You’ll be better equipped to deal with manipulators if you are familiar with this list of tactics, and can identify them when you ...
But Marilyn was a male-identified woman, a product of a virulently misogynist culture that was erotically stimulated by the pairing of beauty and brains -- but only as long as women did the beauty while men got to direct movies, write plays and run the country. That Marilyn played this ...
areoffensivemoves employed by the covert-aggressive to either maintain a position of power, gain power, or remove an obstacle from getting what he wants. You’ll be better equipped to deal with manipulators if you are familiar with this list of tactics, and can identify them when you ...
There was a mixture of outside referrals and in-patient crises to deal with. One night before my colleague had left for the Addams Family Mansion I got a phone call from switchboard. I had a call waiting. A weary-voiced woman informed me that she thought she’d killed her baby. She ...