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Christopher Brunet's avatar

we could all stand to be a little more charitable to our political enemies

of course I am one of the worst examples to follow re: this advice

but i am working on it

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Georgia McGraw's avatar

Pregnancy brain and exhaustion brain are very real. When my toddler only wakes me up twice in a night, I'm fairly bright. When I'm up 3-6 times in the night, I trip over common words, am clumsy, and struggle with arithmetic much more.

The other big, not-progressive-approved thing preventing outcome equality amongst the sexes is choice. I understand when the Professional Feminist types who prefer a career to motherhood/looking after their own children get confused by other women preferring the opposite, but I've also known women who opted to go part-time to be with the kids act shocked that they didn't progress in their careers. But then the progressive argument jumped ahead of "remove barriers" to "rebuild the system in my preferred image". If you can't be a part-time home-working CEO and make it to the PTA meetings, it must be an unfair world still in need of change.

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