Word: maling
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...realizing that it would be considered cruelty to animals to force him to listen to any more speeches. As I stood there, feeling all sensation leave my extremities, I began to wonder: Would I—or President Faust—be having a better time if I were male...
Other recent studies have found that today’s women, on average, enjoy themselves three percent less than their male counterparts. To use a real-life example, if 100 men and 100 women are at the same party, three more men than women are having a good time. I like to think that these men are talking to the women, ruining their evenings. Yet why is there this enjoyment gap? One theory posits that today’s women—especially high-achieving young women—combine all the pressures of their male counterparts with an imperative...
...what creates this drive? Is it still an unspoken rule of our traditionally male-dominated society that women must combine talent with beauty if they hope to succeed? Few people would go so far as to claim that attractiveness is more important than intelligence and competence in determining success. But this does not prevent them from encouraging you to gussy up and don that cute skirt before your interview...
...women may enjoy getting dressed up and claim that we try to look beautiful “for ourselves.” But this enjoyment has an unpleasant corollary. Bad hair or a flawed outfit can poison our delight at any given moment in a way that our male friends never have to fear. Perhaps it is not, in fact, a solid hour and a half of displeasure, but 90 individual minutes of self-doubt that prevent us from enjoying ourselves fully...
...appearing in New York, Houston and Los Angeles: Santa Muerte. The personage is Mexico's idolatrous form of the Grim Reaper: a skeleton - sometimes male, sometimes female - covered in a white, black or red cape, carrying a scythe, or a globe. For decades, thousands in some of Mexico's poorest neighborhoods have prayed to Santa Muerte for life-saving miracles. Or death to enemies. Mexican authorities have linked Santa Muerte's devotees to prostitution, drugs, kidnappings and homicides. The country's Catholic church has deemed Santa Muerte's followers devil-worshiping cultists. Now Santa Muerte has followed the thousands...