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Hot take but I think as a genre the “highly erotic personal essay by a straight woman about desire as an exercise in abjection and self-abandonment” has kind of been exhausted.
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Women are expected to prevent male violence, anticipate male violence, survive male violence, explain male violence, and then comfort men about male violence.
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This one goes out to all of the tumblr kids reblogging that “I’ll take care of you / it’s rotten work / not to me, not if it’s you” exchange from her Euripides translation
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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it has truly never been clearer that news cycles are driven by way too online journalists who see three tiktoks in a trenchcoat and decide its a society-wide issue
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?
We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: wapo.st/3Thcjg9
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Sometimes people start dressing like you were dressing two years ago and for some reason this makes you angry and you feel the need to tell people about it. That is the devil speaking. He is trying to make you sound like a loser who is also insane.
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You’re expelling 21 Afghan students from an all girls university, knowing full well what Afghanistan is like for women. Imagine how hard these girls worked to get here, only to have their futures taken away. What are they supposed to do now?
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That the Pakistani state is cruel is hardly surprising, but nothing has made me more pessmistic and doomerist than seeing the widespread attitude towards Afghans, ranging from callous apathy to active hostility, among the vast majority of Pakistanis across class and ethnic lines.






























