community college challenges every classist notion of education and academia and having access to it has changed my life. it should be preserved, supported, and destigmatized with everything we have. hard to name a more precious educational resource for those over 18.
"Women are trained to not recognize the reality of our subjection. For reasons Andrea Dworkin famously put perfectly, "Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships." I'd add another reason women resist this understanding is because it directly threatens the commonly held goal of having a happy and healthy heterosexual romantic relationship. If you understand the extent to which men hate you, how will you ever find your dream guy?"
Americans keep over 100 million small animals as pets, most of them wild and forced to live their entire life in a tiny cage or tank. It's rife with disturbing welfare problems, so I wrote The Big Case Against Owning Small Pets:
Commercial surrogacy is banned in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, China, Turkey, Japan, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Greece, Canada, and Australia - just to name a few.
We should think about why.
The phenomenon of how egregiously bad the average mom-and-pop hardware store is really is not remarked upon enough. One of those things where I walk in wanting to support a small business and walk out hoping they get destroyed by amazon.
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
— Franz Kafka