Category: Shower Thoughts
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A Conversation About Women, and Violence.
A few weeks ago, my dad and I were discussing some politics over a breakfast at Bob Evans, as you do. I don’t recall the exact topic we were discussing, only that it had to do with women, and that I was trying to express some of the dangers women face when it comes to…
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Presumption of Nonprogression
Allow me to begin with a brief but poignant anecdote. When I was in high school, I was not particularly brilliant in gym class. I loved to run, but I had almost no upper body strength, no dexterity, and a potentially a slightly-below-average hand-eye coordination. That meant, when it came to sports, I was usually…
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Taking Flight
It’s been a month since I wrote “The Last Pages of my College Chapter” and let me tell you: these past few weeks have gone by quickly. So although this isn’t generally the content I’d cover in the last week of the month, I wanted to spend some time talking about what it’s been like…
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The Confined Magic of Disney
Fairy tales are a complicated beast. We tell the stories because they are filled with magic, and Disney has long given its female viewers some characters to look up to. If there’s no magic, there’s no tale. If we are not in awe of flying carpets or talking lions or biscuits that make you suddenly…
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Let’s Talk About the Robots, Shall We?
Allow me to kick this off with a little anecdote. A year ago, I took a business class, trying to use my time in college to learn things not just English-related. I immediately disliked the professor, for a variety of reasons, but that’s hardly the point. He made it clear time and time again that…
Katie Bachelder 