The artist formerly known as Prince Andrew was arrested on February 19, 2026, his 66th birthday. It's terribly apt, since it was his birth that put him in a position to have state secrets to pass on to his pedophile pal.
Good grief. There's hardly anything more vain than thinking what God values most about a man is how many women he can lawfully have sex with.
Yes. It is extremely racist.
Nauvoo is still there. I went with my parents. 😐
Apparently they think anything gross old men do with cute girls is "cute." The girls' cuteness is something the men can acquire & use for themselves. "Cuteness" is what absolves them.
Sex trafficking is not cute.
Johnny Lingo is not cute.
Quit sanitizing sex trafficking.
11/11
I am completely unsurprised that yet another man who made his living producing grandiose statements that could not withstand scrutiny enjoyed exchanging naughty emails about cute girls with a convicted pedophile.
10/
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Deepak Chopra is one such man.
When researchers wanted to understand how human beings responded to #bullshit, they used statements from Deepak Chopra.
#pseudoprofoundbullshit
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They believe that their naughtiness is cute rather than a serious ethical problem. Their cute naughtiness cannot undercut their moral superiority, because they are Great Men by virtue of their thoughts & speech, & mere actions cannot sully the profundity and greatness of their minds.
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The other is that there were people saying, "That's evil & wrong," so I knew I wasn't alone in being horrified by it all.
There are many men who imagine that they possess some innate, inviolable moral superiority that entitles them to be naughty--not evil, just naughty.
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One is that when I read "if [a man] have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, & they are given unto him; therefore is he justified," I asked myself, "What is this actually saying?" & sat with the answer, although/because it was really gross.
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Beginning when I was an infant, my faith community groomed me to accept the sex trafficking of women as the pinnacle of righteousness & to see myself and all other women as objects that men can own.
There are two reasons the grooming wasn't completely successful.
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I was still shocked as a high school freshman to read the Doctrine & Covenants for seminary & confront language positing women as objects that can be owned & positing men who own women as uniquely & supremely righteous.
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www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/script...
My ancestors walked across North America so sexual predation would be easier for a handful of men, some of whom were also my ancestors. I always knew that. I grew up attending family reunions for all the descendants of all seven wives of one of my great-great-grandfathers.
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Yeah, it requires so little thought to figure out why that movie is problematic. And yet, there are people who won't let themselves go there.
I wrote an 8,000-word scholarly essay explaining why #JohnnyLingo is 💩💩💩. I found out at some point that it was taught in #MormonStudies graduate courses. #8CowWoman
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People will swallow almost anything if it's packaged right. My church produced & promoted a movie saying that the best way to make a woman feel good about herself was to sex traffic her for a very high price. People LOVED it, because it was cute. They still do. #Exmo #LDS
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I'm honestly surprised at how devastated I am by Pam Bondi's vile theatrics before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. I can't wrap my head around why some people work so hard to protect evil.
I have given myself permission not to care at all about the Olympics this year.
This is the vegetative equivalent of someone with a foot-high blue Mohawk and a safety pin in their cheek
I have been trying to explain to someone who loves punk music why they shouldn't be so dismissive of the Arizona desert and what I finally came up with is that it's the earth way of saying "F*ck you" to human beings and I personally admire and respect that
Dear God, protect me from people who imagine that their smug admiration for their own ideological purity absolves them of any responsibility for the consequences of their choices.
I admit, the sorrow of others doesn't always bring me more sorrow than the events in my own life, but it's always in the top 3.
Again, that's the point, right? Compassion is the point. Or is this another thing I'm doing really wrong?
7/7
This is one reason my depression has never been alleviated by someone telling me to "think about all the people who have it worse than you." Thinking about how nasty, brutish, & short life has been for most people doesn't make life more appealing for me.
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It works the other way, too. My life is on a pretty even keel lately. What bring me the most sorrow right now is the sorrow of others. What is being done to the people of Minneapolis brings me great sorrow.
5/
Usually, being good at my work brings me more satisfaction than joy.
But the thing that brings me the most joy is always sharing someone else's joy.
That's the right answer, isn't it? That's a big reason we create communities, right? Or am I really doing this wrong? I can't always tell.
4/
A better example is my nephew's wedding last month. His joy, his bride's joy, their parents' joy brought me joy.
There are things I can do by myself that bring me joy, like gardening or reading Jane Austen. Dancing used to bring me joy when I was younger and in better shape.
3/
so I mentioned my nine-year-old neighbor who's learning to play the trumpet & likes to practice outside, so I get to hear him play songs like "Old McDonald" & "Polly Wolly Doodle." At one point in my life this might have annoyed me, but now I find it adorable how much the kids loves his trumpet.
2/
Friday I had an intake appointment for something healthcare adjacent. One of the questions was "What brings you joy?"
I said, "The joy of others."
The woman half-laughed and shook her head, like that was a really weird answer,
1/
I'm really proud of Dr. Arica Law, whose fabulous book, "The Silent Breakup," is out now.
www.amazon.com/Silent-Break...
I can only hope that in 80-ish years, after we've had time to atone for our sins & proven ourselves trustworthy & decent, the US will again be seen as a valuable partner, much as Germany has. But there's little chance we'll ever again be seen as a leader, & we shouldn't be. We forfeited that.
