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"As I see it, one of the big problems is that people expect the library to be all things to all people - which would take enormous amounts of money - but then they get upset when they're faced with the alternative of (a) raising taxes by an enormous..." [
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"I work in a library, and most of the librarians I know are doing pretty well even though our salaries are... well, good public library salaries, but inspiring a certain amount of "I did six years of higher education for this?"
They're..." [
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"I'm disgusted by puppy mills, but I'm a lot more disgusted at the demand end than the supply end. If you are planning on taking a living creature into your family for the next ten or fifteen years, you need to do at least enough research to realize..." [
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"If you have a good idea, people will say "That's a good idea" instead of pretending they don't hear it until a white male says it.
You may be interested in this list of privilege lists (able-bodied, average-sized, straight, male, and..." [
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"I recognize that feeling.
I am talking about myself here, because I feel like I can't generalize it to anyone else, but see if it sounds familiar.
I did a lot of overachieving because at some level I believed that overachieving would give me..." [
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"It's not that crime is rational; it's that working within the system is insufficiently rational if the system is working against you.
If you are born white, middle-class, in an educated family, you are likely to have
(a) the message, from your..." [
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"I think it's incredibly responsible of the parent to let her 9-year-old take the subway home. As a proof of concept, if nothing else. Let's say that someday in the next year or two there's a family crisis and no one can pick the kid up from school -..." [
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MeFi comment:
"As a once and future Wiscon-goer and fan of some of the people mentioned in the article, I have to totally disagree that these fans are "acting and behaving and consuming products the way society dictates girls should."
Look at the..." [
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"It is possible that you're being played. It is also possible that these people genuinely are feeling deeply hurt about what seems like a small slight. Just because Dramaqueen's reaction may be disproportionate doesn't mean that contempt or mockery or..." [
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"People are throwing out a lot of "There must be SOMEWHERE that would love to have it," so:
I've just started a teen knitting club at the (Brooklyn!) library where I work.
The libraries are in a huge budget crunch right now.
I'm just..." [
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