Just a little (link) love: Positivity edition
February 7, 2019
Matt has been a welcome vocal feminist ally on Twitter and talks about how that’s impacted his own life here. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t ruined his life and it HAS generated respect for him, in contrast to what the misogynists claim.
Done by 40 also talks about the wage gap.
A Dying Mother’s Letter to Her Daughters: “While I would have chosen to stay with you for much longer had the choice been mine, if you can learn from my death, if you accepted my challenge to be better people because of my death, then that would bring my spirit inordinate joy and peace.”
As a daughter who lost her mother too early, twice, first to dementia, and then later in truth, this letter broke me a bit. I wish over and over to know what she would have wanted to tell me, as an adult. We had just begun to get to know each other in my adulthood, and see each other as fully people outside of our relationship as mother and daughter, when her grip on her self slipped out of her hands.
The Spy Who Became England’s First Successful Female Writer
Accidental hug at work – I have a fun anecdote of my own on this. Someone reached over to open the door for me but did it in an awkward way that triggered that “he’s coming in for a hug” recognition in my brain the same way it did for the OP and it was NOT accurate. I blurted out: what are you doing?? Because I don’t believe in keeping silent awkward to myself I guess. He was pretty confused.
On Liam Neeson’s recent confession: “For what it’s worth, I’m glad that Neeson was so forthcoming about this story that he “never admitted” to anyone else. Because it has shed light on a phenomenon that too few understand and that we need to talk about.
Although the actor believes that he learnt a lesson from the ordeal after he eventually thought, “What the fuck are you doing?” I’d argue that there’s something even bigger to glean from all of this. Whether we like to admit it or not, racism has and will continue to have a far deeper psychological impact on society than many of us realise.”
