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Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

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I Found the Garden Lady Ennobling

I found the garden lady annoying. I didn't get the sense that she was living a life of luxury though and it didn't make sense that it would be. So interesting that we need some kind of ennobling language as a kind of surrogate for like, Oh my God, don't you want to slap us. There's a theory about this that this is part and parcel of the way that we now attach such a negative valence to bullying. We've really come down hard on the idea that bullying is bad. Bullying is in a moral act.

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