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" If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you. "
Roxane Gay
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" The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said. "
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