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“You still look good,” is not meant in a good way
You can always call a woman beautiful “But I don’t know how to say it!” Complained a guy who I scolded after he told me I looked good for my age. I find myself objecting to the addition “for your age ” about once a month. Can’t a woman just be beautiful? Why do people…
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Winona, age 60ish, aging streetwalker, Talks about her Thanksgiving
Streetwalkers like Winona, an oldtimer in her 60’s remember holidays from childhood as she speaks of today’s street priorities.
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I felt acne ruined me. Now…See Link to The Guardian
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/28/how-i-found-light-at-the-end-of-the-very-dark-tunnel-that-acne-plunged-me-into I understood this article , although my difficulties were reversed. The author had extreme acne and (apparently) parental support. I suppose I had moderate acne but no social support. The people who adopted me lived that the beauty people remarked about when I was a child, was marred. The acne messages were repeated often…
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The link to a story about the experiment ordering people to deliver electric shocks: Rethinking One of Psychology’s Most Infamous Experiments – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous-experiments/384913/ Situationism A fancy way of saying people pretty much follow the crowd, good or bad. Character is more determined by what’s going on around us than what’s going on within us. I believe that is mostly true. But less true for people like me who struggle to connect to the group. People like me…