Spanx, onions, people who bring dogs into supermarkets, and those $60 vials of anti aging snake oil Read more
This was great, so please don’t ban themed weeks. Read more
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Welcome to Ban Week, in which Splinter writers build a case for burning it all down.
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It’s a simple platitude for simple minds. If they don’t put the world together like that, it overwhelms them. If they think for a moment that they don’t have simple answers for everything, then their entire identity as a responsible, logical person comes crashing down. They will thrash and piss and moan about being… Read more
I’m with you 100% man. The hyper masculinity that has metastasized in America needs to go.
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I really appreciated this article; particularly the idea that maleness as an imperative—as a gloss for our worst impulses and behaviors—needs to be torn down.
I said it in an article on The Root, but I am absolutely certain that as a cis-het dude, I have said something at some point that has made a woman uncomfortable.… Read more
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But not all....ah fuck it. Read more
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Yes! Police should come from the community they are policing. The police in the United States are military organizations that seek conflict. This has established a culture of police violence and intimidation. An easy thing to do is to get rid of tactical military gear for officers. I think cops should look like this...
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It always confuses me when “toddler in America shoots someone”. I mean, don’t you people have gun safes (mandatory over here) or even common sense (uncommon over here, but still present)? Read more
This is really weird but i had a girl do this to me. Halfway through she really wanted me to take the condom off...well, more like removed it for me and then got on top of me. I just let it happen and i was uncomfotable about it, but i dudnt stop her either. Read more
YUP. Also, most banks process deposits Monday-Friday, but process debits Sunday-Saturday. So if you are a worker, living paycheck to paycheck, who gets their check on Friday and brings it to the bank right after work, you’d better hope they process it before they close, or good luck trying to buy groceries to feed… Read more
I actually had to argue with my credit union once about the order in which charges came out causing overdraft fees. If you took them out in the order in which I purchased them, I would have only had perhaps one fee. Instead, I got hit with like 4! I managed to convince them to reverse the other overdrafts, because I… Read more
I find this is one of those poverty things where a lot of people who have never been there are “why did you use the card?” or “didn’t you know?” as my entire paycheck would be eaten by a variety of fees...because sometimes you pay the car, the lights, and the rent when they are due to keep the things you immediately… Read more