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Apologies aren't only about admitting you were wrong, but serve as an implicit promise that you're going to try to correct your behavior and way of thinking in the future. I have a theory that boys just aren't taught to apologize in the same way girls are so, in an effort to right this societal wrong, here's a guide for men on how to apologize.
How to Apologize, a Guide for Men - VICE
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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own. Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children’s faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
Far From the Tree
Andrew Solomon
"Eugenics is “often framed as part of a past that is over,” Nair said. “I think the pandemic has demonstrated that that’s not entirely the case.”"
Will halt in Deutschland niemand hören. 🙈🙉🙊
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