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A neutral assessment of the differences between your own and others’ possessions, experiences or accomplishments could help you explore what those differences mean to you and what, if anything, you’d like to do about them. But reacting to perceived differences with self-defeating thoughts about your own worth can have destructive effects.
The stronger unions become, the greater workers’ ability to demand better. As the San Francisco chapter of the Wages for Housework campaign put it in 1977:
Prostitution is one way of getting our wages…. We are forced to sell our bodies… in marriage, in the street, in typing pools or in factories. And as we win wages for all the work we do, we develop the power to refuse prostitution—in any of its forms.
Coalition of social workers gathers in Albany.
The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and anti-anxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to researchers. Their study examined diagnoses of these disorders in adolescents and young adults between 2001 to 2019.
Above all else, a man reading is silent. In short, and even though it won’t solve everything, my advice to my fellow American men is to shut the fuck up and read a novel.