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POPSQuestioning Someone Else's Debt I almost wish dulios had not told me about the snarky comments on Clipmarks related to my indebtedness. It's called student loans. Since when are they supposed to be embarrassing? Just because my parents could not pay for me to go to college, I am supposed to be ashamed? And of course, without child support or any contributions, I raised my two youngest siblings for seven years. Sometimes I had to borrow more money in student loans to support them. I was 25 and in graduate school with custody of my 13 year old sister, and the next year getting custody of my 12 year old brother. Where else was I supposed to get money? My story is in the clipped book as Chapter 7.
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POPSTrig's Breakfhrough An interesting article about Downs Syndrome and how people view life's imperfections. I would hope that my moral compass would dominate the fear, stigma, and total life commitment that would surround the foreknowledge of what was coming. Good article.
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POPSteenagers this is why we need to talk to our kids, and why we need to talk about mental illness and educate everyone from 10 years and up. Weird behavior, withdrawal, needing constant reassurance of love, anxiety, need good medical care, understanding, and not stigma.
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POPSA pit bull with lipstick is a good thing? Why would anyone want to refer to themselves as a pit bull with lipstick? Is that some kind of endearing quality? Is that some kind of characteristic we want in our leadership? I just don't get it. Pit bulls are notorious for attacking innocent bystanders (often children) with fierce vengeance - that's certainly their stigma at least. So why in the world is it something that a potential President of the United States would be proud of comparing herself to? Personally, i find it very scary that she would say that and i honestly find it scary that a room full of people would stand up and cheer the idea.
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POPSself- fulfilling perception "This shows that a person's level of sensitivity to being stereotyped -- their expectation that a person will behave prejudicially towards them -- may distort their perception of reality." Zooming out from the specification of the article, i think it points to the inevitability of seeing what one is "programmed" to see. where is the way out? :)
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POPSMyths and Realities "We have seen here that bisexuality is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, and that many types of bisexuality exist in women." Lordy, I have psychoanalyzed my little selfy to deathy, and I must say it's so tough being a variant, opps, deviant. I must say I was happier making the perfect jam. :D Kidding aside, it's sometimes tough to be bi. There are stigma's and ppl wanting to put you in boxes and brain freezes *LOL* For those on the right, I have to say, I KNEW from early on that I liked both sexes romantically and erotically. It depends on the person, and I've lived and loved hard and I don't regret a damn thing.
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POPSMegacorps on the rise Sad. Just sad. I hate piss water beer, but the idea that a American born and raised company being sold to foreign conglomerate is just upsetting. The Busch family survived two world wars with the stigma of being German-American, and was the first beer company to deliver beer to the White House after prohibition. Just as with oil, American dollars will be sent to line the coffers of the foreign rich. Its bad enough that the American rich screw us now, but we will eventually have to bow to our megacorp masters, regardless of their nationality. Welcome to the future of things.
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POPSDoctor Suicide and Future Doctors Fixing symptoms with pharma is not for the soul of the healer. The Doctor of today is becoming like a preprogrammed vending machine. Again, this can't be good for the heart of a healer. Thomas Edison said, "The doctors of the future will give no medicine but will interest their clients in the care of the human frame and in the cause and prevention of disease." Those times are coming. Go to http://www.mynetimpact.com Login and enter Visitor ID 1302785 and look for the audio of the Doctors panel on the left. These doctors are alive with the hope of helping those who depend on them, to regain health and vitality. The future doctors are arriving.
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POPSThe Wellsian not-so-new idea "When analyzing the ideas and philosophies of liberalism today, if in comparison we look back at Wells’s concept of liberal fascism, we have a very close match. Yes, Wells’s liberal fascism is still alive, but that is not what it is called - It is called “progressive.” "Wells would become more of an activist concentrating his efforts on affecting global change by offering a collection of essays, books, and novels, which often began with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realize a better way of living. It is not surprising then to know that it was Wells who penned the slogan “The war to end all war” and that he was a member of the Research Committee for the League of Nations believing it was a beginning step to fulfillment of this vision."
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POPSBeing A Slut I'm not ashamed for being sensual, sexual, uninhibited... that part of me is just as valid as every other part of me. I am free to revel in exactly who and what I am
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POPSOn Promiscuity, Shame, Stigma, and STDS
"Oh wait, yes I have, I have heard it applied to gay men and that is why they were visited by the “gay plague” which they deserved because all gay men fuck each other randomly as often as they can without protection. Because gay men are sexual deviants, right? Now, on the one hand, we have this heterosexual culture that is telling women to lighten up about sex. That we shouldn’t ask that our partners remain faithful, that we should be fine with them having multiple lovers. (How many arguments have I had over that one?) That real women are empowered by their sexuality, that we can fuck as good and as hard as the boys. That we can express ourselves through our sexuality. That we can define ourselves through our sexuality. This is what it means now to be a real, modern, heterosexual or bi-curious for the boys woman. So why is having an STD / STI such a big deal? Why does the topic make people so uncomfortable? Why is it that I could tell someone I have viral meningitis" (cont)
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