Dear Reverend, I've always been really thin. I'd love to have more curves, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to gain weight. I've even talked to my doctor about it, but it's just the way my body is. I know a lot of people think that's a good problem to have, but I don't. I hate it when people make comments about my body, like saying I'm so lucky to be skinny. It's not just people I know — even total strangers say things to me. How can I get them to stop? P. Teet (nonbinary, 29) Dear...
If one has ever wondered why most people switch off from other people’s reality, wonder no more. In Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ he explains how we are distracted by nonsense, served up by the corporate media as entertainment. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” Neil […]
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