Clarissa
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common feedback loops that women live with involves anger caused by discrimination that, if denied, intensifies, increasing stress and its effects.
Like when, in one week I received a mansplaining lecture from 4 men on a topic I was well-educated about but not welcome to speak on. When venting to the men in my life, they all denied it, just because I know decent men who don't, and at east one insufferable woman who does. (Insuffrable. why is ny standard different for her? I almost expect men to mansplain, leading to frustrationand disappointment, rather than distain
Which raltes to the idea, "we don't hate rapists enough," we dont condemn mansplainers enough. -NYTimes Article).
I need the men in my life to recognize that a majority doesn't have to be 100% of population.
I feel frustrated annd unsupported when Alex does this.
“As he walked back to the neighbor’s he realized that the magic tricks he’d taught himself were childish foolishness. What mattered was the blood that ran through him, the same blood that had flowed through Maria Owens. Once, when he’d cut himself in a tangle of brambles on the way to the lake, drops of his blood had burned through the fabric of his shirt. This was what bloodline magic was. It was inside him.”
― The Rules of Magic
― The Rules of Magic
“In doing so, he understood who he was. In that moment, in his aunt’s greenhouse, he felt more alone than ever.”
― The Rules of Magic
― The Rules of Magic
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