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No, no one is fully ok with it. This entire thread is like the emperor's new clothes or something.

And yet every other comment on this post is "just have confidence; change how you act and look and you'll stop being rejected."

It's so silly to keep acting like attractiveness has zero to do with dating and likeability. Especially when there are permanent issues that are genetic or medical or whatever that go beyond "get a haircut and buy new clothes." American society is super judgemental in general when it comes to appearance and aging (especially toward women), and identity. It gets much worse in the dating scene, especially now that it's so frequently based on swiping left or right on a single photo and you're competing with filters. Yes, there's always the possibility of finding a group of people or a person that you fit in with, and you should always put work into finding that (if that's something you want - not everyone wants to be paired off) but let's stop throwing realism completely out the window ffs.

-- a woman

Is there some part of this that you think doesn't fit into free market capitalism?

This might be the most passive aggressive comment I've ever read.

The answer of course would be "not working for someone else."

I'm also witnessing their workload and demands on them being smaller than what it used to be (already at school), and their work conditions being greatly improved compared to previous times

This is exactly the kind of "back in my day" invalidating, subordinating bs that many workers, not just gen z, are sick of putting up with. No one wants to be talked down to, or to have to put up with constant boomer finger wagging. On the other hand, it's obvious when people talk like this that they're unable to accept how much things change, and regardless of age, shows how out of touch they are with what the average worker puts up with.

I'm sure the people (and children) working in factories in the industrial revolution probably had it easier than those who came before them too. Maybe they were spoiled for fighting for an eight hour workday and safety regulations /s

Millennials are some of the first to have to be "always on" with constant emails, and Slack, and companies monitoring their every move on their phones and laptops, and hiring managers scouring their social media before agreeing to hire them, people getting fired for having OF pages, and having to constantly post bs all over LinkedIn just to stay relevant since there's no way they'll be able to keep the same job for more than a few years. And that's just at their main job, nevermind the two other app-based "hustles" they're forced to have that pay less than minimum wage. Just because the demands are different doesn't mean they're any lower, nor any better.

Would expect nothing less from an MA program.

I was of voting age in 2008. Banning or heavily regulating certain types of guns is not the same as sending the national guard into every home in the US to search for and confiscate them, which is exactly what conservatives have been saying will happen for at least a decade now. Iirc trump banned some kind of bump-stock-adjacent device, but I don't recall any gangs of roving feds going door to door to round up all the ones that have already been purchased.

Except you know they'll just turn around and go "ThIs HaPPeNeD uNdEr BiDeN!"

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Or it's just the only identifying information the media had at the time? Not everything is "missing white woman syndrome." This is the second article I've seen recently with one of these comments.

Here is one great example, of many.

and then on the “Day of Desperation” when ACT UP protested against the first Gulf war by occupying Grand Central Station and interrupting television news programmes, chanting: “Fight Aids, not Arabs.”

We would then do non-violent creative direct action, to communicate through the media (not to the media) to pressure the institutions to change.

Although you don't really have to look any farther than MLK Jr. and the civil rights movement. It's really sad how quickly Americans forget history, often willingly.

Sometimes I think a requisite period of severe poverty and/or homelessness should be requisite for every American. Like Hunger Games: Marginalization Edition.

judgments of attractiveness.

facial asymmetry

As someone with a wonky eye I don't need a study to tell me there's causality there.