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Cynthia - Moses Soyer

Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men 

In all seriousness, chances are you casually consume or indulge in some cultural experience (music, clothing, art, films, etc) that spring from a far deeper place in their origin’s collective unconscious than you can ever understand, but nobody is calling you out on it. It’s just the nature of a multi-cultural world. Culture is mean to be shared, not hoarded; it travels, it grows and it evolves. That’s how it survives.

note to self (via alunit)

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I think that for some people, heading straight from high school to study medicine at uni  is a bit of a mistake. Or maybe not a mistake but… harder, a reality shock. You don’t really have the maturity and experience to understand what you’re working towards, what the rest of your life will entail. And it’s not your fault - almost your entire life has been focused on getting through your education - studying, revision, tests, assignments, rules, a system, hoops to jump through for prizes and praise. The journey to med school is about getting the best results, academically and extra-curricularly out-performing competitive applicants.

You’re chucked into med school and you think it’s more of the same; studying hard, all-nighters in the library, trying to be top in your year as you’ve always been. But it’s different; you’ve jumped from a garden pond to the open sea, and if you keep focusing only on getting the best exam results and trying to be the perfect little academic you’ll drown.

There has to be a point where you let go of all that and realise what you are really working for; not some high school course with an impressive, pretty certificate at the end, but an actual vocation with staggering amounts of responsibility. Patients won’t care whether you got an A or a B in that case report or you can draw the neatest diagrams or have perfectly organised notes. Neither will your tutors - no one’s going to give you a pat on the head and a gold star. It can be frustrating and disillusioning to feel you’re not the best any more. Being a ‘grown-up’ is hard. But sooner or later you’ll have a moment where you really understand what you’ve got yourself into. It might be your first time taking a full history alone; sitting in a clinic and relating to some aspect of a patient’s life; stood in the operating theatre in awe of the violence and power in the surgeon’s hands; bringing a cup of tea to a lonely patient on the wards. And suddenly it feels very real, and your high school days were a lifetime ago. What you’re doing isn’t about ‘you’ anymore, or about impressing anyone or getting the highest test scores as if your life were a computer game. You see the bigger picture.

Margaret Cho: Trolls Who Call Me ‘Fat And Ugly’ Are Admitting Defeat

Margaret Cho has a simple philosophy for dealing with degrading comments about herself: If you’re debating a woman and you stoop to calling her “fat” or “ugly,” you’ve already lost the argument.