Cringey Posts With Obnoxious ‘Pick Me’ Energy

Confession time: Back when I was in college, I was proud that all my friends were dudes. It sort of felt like I’d won their acceptance, and they liked me more than the other women who lived in our co-ed dorm. The reality is that we just became friends because I had developed a nasty …
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Cringey Posts With ‘Pick Me’ Energy

Confession time: Back when I was in college, I was proud that all my friends were dudes. It sort of felt like I’d won their acceptance, and they liked me more than the other women who lived in our co-ed dorm. The reality is that we just became friends because I had developed a nasty …
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Cringey Posts From Women Who Are «Not Like Other Girls’

As a woman, it can feel like I am not supposed to scrutinize the behavior of other women. Some people feel like calling each other out isn’t feminist – that we should reserve our judgments instead of taking others down a peg. But there’s some behavior that is so universally gross that I can’t be …
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Criminally Cringey Posts From Women Who Are ‘Not Like Other Girls’

Back in college I thought it was cool that all my friends were dudes. It was like I had won some kind of «acceptance» award and was different than some of the women living at the dorm. Really, we just became friends because I had a nasty habit of chain smoking and had social anxiety …
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