
Consider what it takes to become an NBA player. Most of them have been honing their skills on the basketball court practically since infancy. Years of countless practices, camps, and games have helped each player develop a skill set based around shooting, ball-handling, passing, defense, and anything else that brings one success in basketball.
…t being passed explicitly, but there is a clear message (it’s right there in the headline), that AOC is a hypocrite. Here, the fact that she would spend the equivalent of a month’s worth of groceries on a haircut apparently disqualifies her from being the socialist champion she claims to be (and actually is, tbh).
…we can’t proclaim that women should be equal without men angrily lashing back and feeling that their entitlement is being challenged, shows just how ingrained these ideas are, how much they permeate the entirety of our social and economic systems, and how deeply fused into the substrate of our respective societies they are. There’s no question that women have had it bad since the inception of civilization — there is only the denial of this very real fact. Some anthropologists consider the advent of agriculture to be humankind’s worst blunder and I tend to agree in some respects; it’s all been downhill from there and women — f…