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tumblr post c 2300: fake nails were actually super convenient for women! it saved them the cost of having to go to the nail salon every two weeks to get their nails done, which was often $40 or $50 every one or two weeks. and high heels were important to women too! they let women be at an equal height to men, which was super significant given the steep increase in the proportion of women in historically male-dominated professions during the 20th and 21st centuries and height-based differences in gender during this time. and also the norm of working women wearing dresses with only thin pantyhose and no socks provided women with a naturally air-conditioning in a time when climate ch-
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I think the main reason aba has become the standard for early autism intervention is that behavior is so easily measured compared to like. comprehension
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part of why I’ve been radicalized into being basically anti-private schooling is that I don’t think parents are really making informed decisions. obviously there’s the often-cited critique that private schools appear to do better because they select students who are already doing well, which complicates many measures of effectiveness. and many parents in my experience don’t know very much about typical child development, let alone effective teaching strategies, so I don’t even feel like transparency about curricula and philosophy is that helpful
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#extremely specific and embarrassing pull but this reminds me of the exxon valdez episode of you’re wrong about#where Mike keeps trying to find a gender neutral way to say “fisherman” because he just found out the feminine term is “fishwife”
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Penguins in Antarctica. Photo by Gennady Koposov (1967).
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A man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I don’t have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.
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I am trying very hard to find somewhere to volunteer (mostly to keep from rotting at home after work) but the greatest need appears to be during my work day… sob
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sorry to go yoko ono flower child but I don’t want any of these people to die I want them to grow a heart
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had a nightmare that one of my friends told me that all African languages were mutually intelligible and I was just sputtering trying to find a way to tell her she was wrong while also maintaining our friendship
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rating: not cute. whole-ass adults only complain about planetary reclassification 20 years after the fact when suffering from EXTREME lack of enrichment
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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.
#now that I have some more qualifications it would be easier to emigrate#but easier is still not easy!#also tbh I feel like some people need to stay and fight
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