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Don’t Rape

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 by GrayMatters
Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.

Tell your boys, “Don’t rape.” Wait, that can’t be right. I started this whole line of thinking awhile back. Well, it’s been a vein in a lot of my writing as I struggle to unlearn much of my upbringing as a woman in the United States. For the sake of getting to a point rather quickly, …

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Mirror, Mirror

September 16, 2017September 16, 2017 by GrayMatters
If we're honest with ourselves, what do we really see when we look in the mirror?

A frightening thing happened in the United States last week: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested that ESPN should fire Jemele Hill, a sportscaster, because she tweeted that the president is a white supremacist. Then Sanders said in her own defense, “I’m not the one making outrageous comments” as if reminding people that the …

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Thought Leader

September 7, 2017September 8, 2017 by GrayMatters

I hate that all this Bizarro World shit is becoming “normal.” I hate that the lessons I was taught aren’t common sense anymore. What happened to “question everything” and “check facts?” What happened to scientific theory and civics and digging for truth? What happened to being able to trust the news, for the most part? …

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Slippery Slope: Told You So

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 by GrayMatters

We started down the slippery slope of ignorance ages ago, but this one should be fresh in our minds. Remember that con where the grifter sells you, the mark, an afterlife you pay for with “tithe” money your entire life? the one where you don’t find out that it was a con until you die …

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