Some people like loud symbols. Big flags, big slogans, big declarations. Other people prefer quiet ones. A little sign here, a number there, a wink that fits inside a username. Not everyone wants to announce what team they are on. Some prefer to keep it “just a joke,” “just a meme,” “just a detail.”
Which is, in its own way, elegant. It is also convenient.
Because a quiet sign can … Read the rest
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My wife Liuba is from Omsk, and many hard, frozen, poverty-stricken years there did nothing to damage her health.But all it took was four winters amid the belching smokestacks and poisoned atmosphere of Moscow for her to contract a chronic bronchial infection. During her last two years in the megapolis, often amid endless bleak rains that more and more prevail there because of climate change, our apartment was … Read the rest
Content advisory 18+ RAPE. Such a strong implicating degrading action with grave consequences, but a word used almost casually and thoughtlessly. So many renowned public figures throw out comments which not only makes light of the gravity of the action but also sends out a wrong message to the people who look up to them.
Rape is such a common occurrence nowadays and people don’t even blink an eye when … Read the rest
