I agree, but she has a point that there are certainly people who end up dropping friends at the first sign of what they consider to be “toxic” behavior in order to not have to deal with friends who have problems in their lives that they could use support from. That happens way too often, not because someone is truly toxic, but because they are struggling and their “friends” who rather dump them, then support them in their times of struggle. If people get dumped for being sad about normal stuff we should all be sad about and expect some support from our friends, then that seems a little like treating people like a commodity.
I do think that people being too quick to jump on the “this person is toxic, so they need to cut contact” at the slightest whiff of someone being upset or depressed is contributing to our problems with people being isolated and depressed, which of course is making our general problems with mental health worse.
Absolutely. Doubly so with family. Anyone who is clearly taking up all your mental and emotion resources, is making you feel like shit, and who shows no sign of working to change that, should definitely be cut out or at the very least, restricted to very narrow modes of connection…
So, “rugged individualism” isn’t working out and now folks want government to do better and offer assistance? Didn’t Abbott get reelected? If they want different outcomes they’ll need different leaders. Until then, others will suffer because of neighbors who voted against the public good.
Cool article about a woman who gets no credit whatsoever for fundamentally transforming American eating habits.
Old political slogans have a peculiar context, and so the old “chicken in every pot” slogan from 1928 (during what were boom years–with serious portents of doom–for many parts of the American economy). When the local New York Republican Party placed an ad saying that Herbert Hoover would bring prosperity and a “chicken in every pot. And a car in every backyard to boot,” this was a promise of luxury. Eating chicken regularly just wasn’t common before Cecile Steele made it so. The slogan (erroneously attributed to Hoover, when it was actually said on his behalf) was a promise of the fruits of prosperity—eating chicken whenever one wanted, not just when they’d gotten old and stopped laying.
From the cradle to the grave, we have to fight against predators and their enablers. Folks who decide to profit by taking advantage of the most vulnerable in society cannot succeed without corruption and poor oversight.
Not just stole: manipulated and blackmailed judges and politicians to rewrite the laws that have governed adoption in the U.S. ever since. Always to protect the adoption industry first and the adoptive parents second, with no protections for the biological families or the children themselves.
I wish the writer had spent more time detailing how she managed to do what she did. They mention one baby that was taken in for sickness, and the birth mother was told the baby died. But that’s it. It would be good to know how the scheme worked.
My… goodness… I know so little of the world that this is my first exposure to Ric Flair.
Wow.
Such a character.
This makes me wonder how it has come to be that did not somehow end up in the world of professional wrestling, as an impresario (not a wrestler, we know that’d be too far-fetched).
If they want different outcomes they’ll need different leaders. Until then, others will suffer because of neighbors who voted against the public good.
did not somehow end up in the world of professional wrestling, as an impresario (not a wrestler, we know that’d be too far-fetched).