I am truly baffled by apprentices who insist on this ridiculous fashion. I was an apprentice too, once, so I understand the desire.

But the only real path to smugness lies in memorizing the tomes, performing arcane research, consorting with succubi, and developing an insufferable certainty.

Simply reversing one's hat will only tell your audience that you are a fool when you open your mouth.

That's a lot of nudes

I KNEW SHE WAS PART OF THE PACK! AWOOOOO!

Tbf the vaginal shape is more subtle. The egg/sperm thing is similarly harder to notice, possibly due to my lousy vision and the colours.

this is the boss of autogamy

But the incels are the most intense manifestation of a societywide problem: How do we get lonely young men to log off and rejoin society? How do we convince these men that they are not, as the killer believed, “barred from actualizing your potential?” 

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The solution to this loneliness epidemic and all the downstream dangers that flow from it, is painfully simple: We need to break this internet addiction and get disaffected young men into physical, shared spaces again. The difficult part, the thing we haven’t yet figured out, is how we do that.

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Let's not overcommit.

I agree that it's awkward and it creates problems in some scenarios. I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad thing, but it's an understandable (over) correction for some pretty heinous behaviour.

I think it's also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone's humanity.

At work? I think it's preferable to limit our interactions to work related stuff.

Outside of work, I'm ambivalent. We associate physical features, names, and accents with cultures. But those don't always line up to significant differences in someone's personality.

In the last few decades we've noticed that we've been treating each other like shit. We've used race, skin colour, ethnicity, weight, etc to insult others and reduce their social standing.

We're trying to fix that. As such, calling out those specific differences is frowned on, even if we aren't using them negatively.

Is this inconvenient? Yes. It's pretty easy to point out the only black/fat/disabled person in a work place. But we're really trying to avoid any conversations that could turn into insults or attacks.

So we now have an unwritten social rule that we avoid using those identifiers when talking about individuals.

What are hobos doing in your body? And how many are we talking about?

Hey, no worries! Take care of life stuff.

Could we do Twizzlers instead?

This habit of using headphones to dodge uncomfortable interactions may be especially common among younger adults, for whom social unease and feelings of isolation are well-documented problems that have become more common in recent decades.

The lobby registry also shows [Health Minister] Michel met with [pesticide industry group] CropLife in December and January. Roy Karam, her political adviser, has met with CropLife four times this year.

coincidence, I'm sure