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“The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” by Junot Díaz in The New Yorker

“The Rage of the Incels” by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker

“One Year of #MeToo: A Younger Generation’s Remedy for Rage” by Amanda Petrusich in The New Yorker

“Unheard Grief, Unmovable Men: How an Old Mexican Folktale Speaks to Our Pain Today” by John Paul Brammer in Catapult

“How Fairy Tales Teach Us to Love the Unknowable” by Cate Frick in Catapult

“I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore” by Leslie Jamison in The New York Times Magazine

“Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity” by Lauren Oyer in The New York Times Magazine

“Is Television Ready for Angry Women?” by Sophie Gilbert in The Atlantic

“Do Beyoncé Fans Have to Forgive Jay-Z?” by Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic

“How Famous Women Clean Up After Men” by Soraya Roberts in Longreads

“The Miracle of the Mundane” by Heather Havrilesky in LongReads

“Sharp Objects Finale Recap: Don’t Tell Mama” by Angelica Jade Bastien in Vulture

In Conversation: Kathleen Turner in Vulture

“Why 536 was the worst year to be alive” by Ann Gibbons in Science Magazine

“When Priyanka Met Nick: A Love Story” by Abby Aguirre in Vogue

“The Female Price of Male Pleasure” by Lili Loofbourow in The Week

“We Need to Start Taking Young Women’s Love Stories Seriously” by Marian Crotty in Electric Literature

“Female Agency in Movies” by Kellie Herson in The Outline

“Mourning for the Void” by Hazel Cills in Jezebel

“Cracked Fairy Tales and the Holocaust” by Sabrina Orah Mark in The Paris Review

“How to Be Pretty On TV” by Elisa Gabbert in LitHub

“Your American Dream Baby” by Vivian Zhu on her personal blog

“We Prioritize Boys’ Suffering At Girls’ Expense” by Shannon Keating in BuzzFeed

“You Owe Me An Apology” by Brittany Packnett in Elle

“Ah! Another like me! We’re few and far between these days, aren’t we?”

And I was like oh man this guy’s sense of humor really aligns with mine! And I laughed and made some other joke about being immortal and thought that was the end of it,

but this man.

He stood by the register for five more minutes. Maybe more. Which let me tell you is an EXCRUTIATING amount of time for something like this to happen.

And he just kept upping the ante!! He starting talking about some REALLY specific details regarding day-to-day life in the 1300s to the point I started getting worried that I’d misled a genuinely immortal being to believe I am also immortal.

He eventually politely left when I got too busy with other customers to awkwardly respond.

I didn’t expect him to keep at it, but by god he did. he’s been learning on his own for like two years now. he’s not fluent yet but he’s also sixty and left school at fourteen, so this is pretty impressive. (i mean also an eventual problem because now i’m gonna have to write fanfic in spanish to avoid him reading it and having the “why is there poultry in this scene” conversation, but, impressive.)

buuuuuuut his teachers advised him to practice grammar and vocabulary by going into forums and blogs and talking with real people about topics that interest him.

he’s been taking it to mean “go troll trump and pro-gun supporters to whitin an inch of their life.”