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Men can be better, and the Gillette advertisement exemplified that point. Gillette posted an advertisement on Jan. 13 to their Youtube account, and while it may have faced some backlash, the message gets straight to the point. The ad depicted the reality of toxic masculinity, that it not only negatively affects women, but men…
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Technology. The safest tool to humans, right? Nope, more like one of the most powerful tools that invades everyone’s privacy. Everyday, many people get their identity stolen, and technology is a major facilitator. Through online websites, games or any software where personal information is inputted, the information is at risk of being stolen. From…
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President Donald Trump tweeted a proposal to ban transgender military service in July 2017. A year and a half later, the Supreme Court condoned this decision. On Jan. 22, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the ban, reversing a policy that former President Barack Obama made allowing transgender people to serve. Not…
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On my last trip to CVS, there seemed to be a giant elephant in the room. Or rather, a giant mountain of backpacks. CVS has recently implemented a new policy requiring students to leave their backpacks by the door while they shop. They might as well have installed a flashing neon sign that says…
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Ever hear someone walk into a room and scream, “It smells like broke in here!” They were probably wearing AirPods. If you didn’t hear them, you were probably wearing AirPods too. The newest fad of 2019 is Apple’s $159 wireless AirPods. Before Christmas, mainly mediocre basketball players and rich kids who wanted other kids…
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“Girl Power” is only powerful if ALL girls stick together. When girls criticize each other, subtly or overtly, behind each other’s backs or to their face, it weakens our cause altogether. When guys have a problem with one another, they hash it out and get over it pretty quickly. In my experience, women are…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sharing cooking videos. Beto O’Rourke is giving us the inside scoop on his dental cleaning. What does this have to do with policy-making? Nothing. The new breed of Democratic politicians is trying to be our BFF. Why? There is a notion within the Democratic party that hinges on the idea of…
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I am a victim of Middle Child Syndrome. I get the least amount of attention out of my siblings, with my parents usually talking about my older brother’s newest internship or my younger brother’s multiplication skills. When I play games with my siblings, I’m usually the default “bad guy” and serve as a punching…
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Violence against women of color is omnipresent. We listen to it, we read about it, we watch it happen and yet it still seems to be treated like white noise in the background of “bigger” issues. Why has the conversation of the African-American girls missing from Washington D.C. since 2017 stopped? Did you know…
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I hate the cold. Every morning when I pick out a jacket, the day seems a little more bleak. I have a hard time getting on board with weather under 75 degrees and I’m not ashamed to admit that my cold tolerance is very low. So low in fact, that sometimes California winters are…