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Why are men taught how to treat women… but women rarely get taught how to treat men? 🤔

In modern relationship talk, there’s a very common pattern: 👨 Men get a whole “how to be a good partner” curriculum: ✅ respect her ✅ communicate better ✅ emotional intelligence ✅ consent ✅ plan dates / be thoughtful / “do better” But 👩 women rarely get an equivalent “how to treat a man well”... read more

Pretty, Proud, and Trans

Breaking Norms, Serving Beauty

You've heard it said before.

You've heard it said before that everyone is a little narcissistic. It doesn't have to be that way, while true it is more so a social and cultural problem as social and cultural norms can normalize aspects of it. External validation functions like a market place, people aren't reaching deep within... read more

The Patriarchal societal norms rattle my mind when it comes for looking for love when you're the type of person to always over think and not give yourself life credit. In my head I'm the trad wife that takes care of their man while rejecting obligations put on "women", but how does this work?

Things I've noticed about modern dating as a woman in a healthy relationship.

Hi, woman in a happy relationship here. I want to share a couple of things I’ve noticed about modern dating, especially in heterosexual contexts. 1. Modern dating is unforgiving because it overvalues looks and short-term benefits. Western society puts a huge emphasis on youth, beauty, and what... read more

Being vegan in a nonvegan world

In about a year, I will have been vegan for exactly 10 years, for about a third of my life, and so, I've been trying to think about how the whole experience felt. I've been thinking of the concept of Vystopia, a term coined by the psychologist Clare Mann, and referring to the anguish of living as... read more