Scrap Gold

Pretty or funny? Women don’t have to choose

I once overheard a conversation between a teenage guy and girl. She was making a (admittedly, mediocre) joke, he didn’t laugh, she immediately apologised for it not being that funny and he replied “Don’t worry, you’re so pretty, you don’t have to be funny.” Well. This statement, although maybe meant as a riff on that […]

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A Book for March(ing)

Just in time I finished reading this book that was worth a few sleep-deprived days and that deals with, if not all, then a lot of the issues: trust, support, betrayal, power, money (and how entangled those two are, of course), relationships and how to navigate them (and also, again, the power theme here), altruism […]

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