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Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay poster boy for the alt-right, has been accused of being sexist, racist, transphobic and, ironically, homophobic because of his aggressively conservative articles and speeches. He has definitely practiced his fair share of First Amendment rights and has received as much backlash and attention as his comments
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I lost my virginity when I was 14 years old. But before I could bask in the glory of fulfilling my sexual needs, or even process the act, the gossip about me spread around school as quickly as pink eye at a co-op orgy party. In a predominantly white, upper-middle
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Before coming to the United States, I used to model. I was made to feel bad about my weight on every occasion when I lived with my family, and even more so when I was out of their sight.
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On my first day working at Cal Dining my freshman year, my manager explained in a condescending, matter-of-fact tone that if someone was wearing too little clothing, I should refuse to serve them. Aside from specifying that every customer must wear shoes, tops and bottoms, however, my manager never explicitly
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Throughout my life, my family and peers brushed aside my retaliations to their sexist comments, branding me as just condescending or ill-tempered. Because sexist tenets are the norm, any sort of deviation in my family or in my high school was labeled as lacking significance or as a temper tantrum.
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“When did you friendzone me?” one of my housemates asked, implying with his question that there was a time in the past when I was down for the dick. “Uhh, the first day I met you,” I replied, feeling uncomfortable with the cop-out concept of the word “friendzone.” “That’s so
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If there’s one thing I learned about men, it’s that they have no intentions of dealing with women and their periods. Though women handle bloody messes every month and still hang on by a tampon string for decades, men who come in direct contact with a few drops of blood
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Every time a grade distribution update appears on bCourses for a test I’m pretty sure I passed, my stomach flutters with excitement as I get ready to compare my score with that of the rest of my class. On days when I’m feeling especially condescending, I even treat myself to
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Content warning: sexual violence The portion of men that spend their leisure time on 4chan, Reddit and The Daily Californian website shaming sexually active women certainly cannot afford to do so. Women in today’s progressive society don’t line up to date men who call them “used goods” for having sex,
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When I tell friends the tale of my summer romance, it seemed torn out of a Nicholas Sparks novel: In the beautiful city of Cambridge, a liberal California girl falls for a Southern, conservative, Ivy League boy who folds her clothes before they fall asleep together in a cuddling position
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