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Deal With It: On Men Accepting Rejection

My intention this was week was to follow up on last weeks post about emotional labor. But I decided to talk about something more timely. And that is the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, and specifically, how the shooters first target was a girl who he was interested in but rejected him, and, according to her mother, had publicly embarrassed him. This is not a piece about gun control (though we need much more of it and far fewer guns). Nor is it really a piece about misogyny specifically; in the context of what Im trying to do with this series, it goes without saying, in the hopes and attempts of being a better man, all misogynistic behavior is...

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