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  Male Vulnerability: Bromance Hope
    Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Male Vulnerability: Bromance Hope

    August 27, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I read a really lovely book, featuring a club of men in traditionally macho professions (sports jocks, nightclub owners) getting together to learn about women and relationships by reading romance novels. The premise tickled me and its chicklit style carried me through well. Most of all, I found myself feeling…

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  Threadwork Therapy: Crochet Needle Healing
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Threadwork Therapy: Crochet Needle Healing

    August 18, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I picked up the crochet needle today. I began crocheting in 2002 after I heard it was calming. My impatient younger self had been bored by the labor but in 2002 I found something else. I was struggling through something I did not understand, had no support or idea how…

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Sin Addiction

    August 11, 2020August 14, 2023
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    Don’t I look like all the sins you’re going to commit tonight? Feeling flows through me the way water runs through the planet. What is sin but another you rippling along?

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    A Thousand Apologies

    August 5, 2020March 22, 2023
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    After I asked women to share instances when men apologized to them, I realised something stood in the way of men and the word SORRY. I want to believe men are as rational & feeling as women and can see the damage done by not taking responsibility for their actions….

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  Recuperate
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Recuperate

    August 4, 2020February 25, 2025
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    For the ones dealing with long-buried memories and healing from old wounds. It’s time to recuperate.

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  • ramya in black top looking under her hair to her left - sorry
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

    July 28, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I asked women to tell me about when a man apologised to them. A genuine, responsible, heartfelt sorry.

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  Asocial Eater
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Asocial Eater

    July 28, 2020July 16, 2023
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    I have an unusual relationship with food & people. Namely, I don’t like to be around both at the same time. Am I an asocial eater?

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  Men With Dark Pasts – Indian Matrimony’s Vyasar
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    Men With Dark Pasts – Indian Matrimony’s Vyasar

    July 26, 2020February 25, 2025
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    We glorify the dude with the dark past. The slightest chink in the brick wall facade that he calls a personality, is celebrated. But does he deserve us?

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  Is This Feminism? – Hair Removal
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Is This Feminism? – Hair Removal

    July 18, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I made my first big purchase in this COVID-19 year. I bought an epilator. Actually, I replaced my old one that finally gave way in May, in the style of all essential devices going kaput right under lockdown. I felt really guilty about missing my epilator so much these past…

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  Life Finding A Way
    City | Map Of Emotion

    Life Finding A Way

    July 14, 2020February 25, 2025
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    There is a rage in cities that disturbs me. But there is room in a garden for the delicate blooms, sturdy shrubs, pungent herbs & resilient weeds.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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