There is, unfairly, a social stigma that goes with baldness and which is tied to shallow judgment of people that’s based on appearances. It’s far worse for women. It can open them up to ridicule, whispered or otherwise. People think there’s something wrong with them. Being bald is only “justified” for a woman if she has cancer, which becomes an excuse to feel sorry for her, rather than affirm her intrinsic beauty — hair or no hair.
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Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election being “stolen” is about as big as they come, but it’s still not the biggest or even the most dangerous one he’s told. If his followers hadn’t fallen for this other lie, the election so-called “big lie” wouldn’t even have been possible.
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From the moment she walked down the aisle and saw her groom’s slightly crooked teeth, Alyssa Ellman has been all-out of her marriage to Chris Collette. The question is, why did the so-called experts pair these two people in the first place? Is their judgment really that poor? Or is the show simply looking to maximize its ratings by providing as much drama and conflict as possible?
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Poll questions are supposed to measure opinions. They’re not supposed to have clear right or wrong answers. No pollster would ask a question like: “Do you believe the sun rises in the east all the time, sometimes, or never?” Or “Do you believe A is the first letter of the English alphabet all the time, sometimes, or never?”
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We as a society don’t pay attention to the people receiving apologies. Our attention is so laser-focused on the person doing the apologizing, we don’t realize that it takes two to tango. We demand humility in the person who’s apologizing. But we never stop to think that accepting an apology should be done with humility too. It shouldn’t be used as an excuse to criticize someone else or lord it over them.
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Shame renders apologies meaningless because it transforms actions into identity. You didn’t offend me; you are offensive. You didn’t make a mistake; you are a mistake. And if apologies are meaningless, why bother to apologize? If there’s no hope for forgiveness, why bother to change? Those are the questions Trump’s followers have been asking for a long time, and he gave them an answer: Don’t.
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