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I'm selfish.
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I'm selfish.

Except I'm not. This is a feminist issue.

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Dec 04, 2023
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I wrote this article a few weeks back and kept scheduling it and then worrying it was too negative or ‘angry feminist’ and that isn’t really my tone these days. My approach is gentler.

So I’d chicken out, put it back in drafts and write something else.

But then

Penny Wincer
wrote about being a ‘selfish’ reader, and I loved it. And I decided that to discuss selfishne…

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