Kategorie: Random Observations
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Of Female Rage, Locked-up Madwomen and Brat Summer
„Are you angry a lot?“, my therapist asked me. „No“, I replied, „I hardly ever get really angry.“ I thought I had given a good answer because my parents had taught me that anger is bad. But when I noticed the tiny flicker of pity crossing my therapist’s face, I started wondering whether I had…
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Childless Cat Ladies, Unite!
A few weeks ago, a 2021 interview with Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance resurfaced in which he took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris and some other high profile female politicians claiming: “We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable…
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The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part II
My plan was to steer clear of boring first dates, which is why I decided to take a different approach to online dating and to allow me to have some fun with it: From now on, I predominantly swiped right for slightly younger guys with a mixture of party and gym pics. And to my…
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The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part I
I have been fairly blessed in my dating life. I managed to meet my two long-term partners through friends, which made the initial dating phase either wholly superfluous (going from friends to lovers) or at least quite relaxed (hanging out a few times in a group before dating). Unfortunately, life for me took a turn…
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There’s Something About Taylor (…and Travis)
There’s about a good handful of moments that broke the internet: it happened when the infamous Oscar selfie was posted, it happened when Kim Kardashian released her cover for Paper magazine and it also happened when millions of people couldn’t decide whether a dress was black or blue. Last week it happened again uniting two…
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Girl Dinner. Or How Brotzeit Became a Feminist Statement.
As summer is coming to an end, I think we should all take a moment of reflexion and ask ourselves what defined the summer of 2023 for us: Will you remember it as the summer that gave us King Charles III? Will it be the summer in which Donald Trump was arrested? Or will it…
Couch Potato Chronicles 