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Most importantly, reclaim your time, emotional en-ergy, and self-worth from the reductive logic of capitalism.
You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization.

"Cultural theorist Mark Fisher has argued that the deteriorating quality of mental health in the West can be attributed to the precariousness of the capitalist economic system. Like climate change and environmental degradation, the skyrocketing incidence of depression and anxiety are the negative externalities of a system that reduces human worth to its exchange value"

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Discrimination against women in leadership has little basis in differential skill sets and more to do with social attitudes about women in power. (...)
We don't associate women with positions of authority because we've seen so few of them. And because there are so few women in positions of authority, both men and women continue to associate leadership with male bodies, a vicious cycle that is hard to break out of.

well yes men having more disdain for prostitution than homosexuality amongst men isn’t surprising because gay men are men, and prostitution (regardless of the gender identity of said prostitute) is typically associated with ~women~

well yes men having more disdain more for prostitution than homosexuality amongst men isn’t surprising because gay men are men, and prostitution (regardless of the gender identity of said prostitute) is typically associated with ~women~

reminds me of paris is burning when venus said, “i’m sure she’d have to go to bed with him to give him something he wants, to get what she wants.” in relation to how being a housewife vs a prostitute is not all that different.