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To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

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Sandra Tsing Loh

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

Character, Ethnicity, Flawed, Nice, Surgeons
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Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

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Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

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All autobiography is fiction.

Autobiography, Crafts, Fiction

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

Book, Reading, Rain, Eager, Century, Ozone

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

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