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Feminism has helped women gain things that once seemed impossible, or were treated like a luxury. The right to vote, access to education, the ability to open a bank account without a husband’s permission, the freedom to build a career and be your own boss. The list goes on.
But even after all that progress, there’s still a long way to go. Seriously, why are people still fighting over women’s bodily autonomy in 2026? And that’s just one piece of the daily sexism women still run into. It’s exhausting. It’s infuriating.
That’s why sometimes the best response is to vent online and say the quiet part out loud. The Facebook group Heroic Girls does exactly that, calling out the patriarchy with zero mercy. Scroll down for some of their best posts, and feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments.
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Forrest Hobbs 14 hours ago
Mmm. When my grandfathers were born, they had no expectation of ever being able to vote. Equal rights? The rich keep the rest of us at each other's throats, distracting us from the real enemy - them. It's not a matter of men vs women or black vs white, but the wealthy vs everyone else.
General Anaesthesia 7 hours ago
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
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Today, we’re lucky to have countless platforms where women can speak up and share their experiences. Whether it’s an online group or a protest that makes headlines, women have more ways than ever to make their voices heard. That kind of visibility makes it harder to brush real issues off as “no big deal.” And that matters more than you might think.
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LizzieBoredom 59 minutes ago
Chasing down overall-wearing, carpenter-types while clutching a hammer, and yelling "I need you to nail something" has thus far not worked for me.
American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
Every post calling out workplace inequality or story about unfair treatment chips away at the idea that these issues are normal or acceptable. It reminds other women they’re not alone.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
Not in the slightest. Harley Quinn (original/standard version of the character) is in a very, very dependent relationship with the Joker. She basically worships him and would do anything he asked of her. She's not really independent of him at all.
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Michael Largey 1 hour ago
M<y wife bought a car. She shopped for it, test drove it, and paid for it. Guess who all the mail from the dealership is sent to? We told them to correct that, and they said they would. Of, course, they never did. Neither of us will be buying another car there.
Starbug 3 hours ago
He probably knew her surname and addressed the bill to Mr. Surname
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Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
Excuse me what the fresh hell has religion got to do with this ?? NONE so what’s that stupid comment for , your name fits you !
Load More Replies...But this ability to speak freely and publicly is shockingly recent. For most of history, women didn’t have these platforms. They didn’t have the vote or the education to make their voices count. Speaking up often meant risking everything, from social ostracism to actual violence.
Before feminism became an organized movement, women’s roles were largely confined to what men decided they should be. In many Western societies, women were considered the property of their fathers and then their husbands. They couldn’t own property or sign contracts in most places.
Education was reserved almost exclusively for men, and women who dared to speak publicly about politics or rights were often ridiculed or worse.
#8
LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
Why not both?! XD A dress with pockets and a pan of mac and cheese!
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Billo66 5 hours ago
What has precious got in it's pocketses? ..Nothing stupid, they're womens pants.
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Pagan squirrel 3 hours ago
Yes! It really annoys me that my boyfriend can get his phone in his pocket yet I can't even get my hand in mine.
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Riley Quinn 16 hours ago
It's long past time that people, not just men, learn that "No" is a complete sentence. Whether asking a girl/woman on a date, attempting to force drinks or food on someone who isn't interested or any other reason, if the response is No, then stop harassing the person.
John Dilligaf 9 hours ago
partially blaming the entertainment media on this one. Practically every movie and TV show that has a romantic subplot rams home the "lesson" to not take no for an answer and the way to "get the girl" is to relentlessly hound her until she gives in.
Zig Zag Wanderer 16 hours ago
Hmmmm. I was brought up primarily by my mother. Nobody had to teach me this. Strange, isn't it?
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
And if someone actually is the type that says "No" when they mean "Yes", take that "No" gratefully and run with it. You don't want anything to do with someone like that.
Nizumi 23 minutes ago
Told a contractor 3x I didn't want something done - verbally and in writing. 3rd time he asked I put it in writing, "Pursuant to my first two verbal refusals, please understand: If you do that, I will not pay for it - not the work, not the materials, and you will have to undo everything at your cost to put it back the way I want it. This is in writing to make it clear and put it on record." Fûcker asked me a 4th time. I asked him if this is going to have to get legal. Yep - he muttered "B!tch" when he turned away - but the work's be going smoothly since then.
#10
Ali 7 hours ago
I was once driving behind my husband (he needed to leave car at the train station for later, we would finish journey in my car) and he made a rude hand gesture at me when I came up behind him at traffic lights. It was a joke, not at all mean. I saw a man walk over and knock on his window, this lovely guy had seen and wanted my husband to pull over to let me get far away. He laughed when we told him, but we both thanked him lots for his effort.
Yet even in these restrictive conditions, individual women pushed back. Writers like Mary Wollstonecraft published ground-breaking works such as “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792, arguing that women weren’t naturally inferior to men but appeared so because they lacked education and opportunities.
Wollstonecraft’s work laid important groundwork for what would eventually become the feminist movement, even though the term “feminism” itself wouldn’t appear for another century.
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Billo66 5 hours ago
Well, he knows now doesn't he, They didn't consent to let him in. lol
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The word “feminism” has French origins. French philosopher Charles Fourier is credited with coining the term “féminisme” in 1837. While it originally referred to “feminine qualities or character,” that meaning has long since faded.
The term didn’t gain widespread use in English until the 1890s. By then, women on both sides of the Atlantic were organizing in earnest, demanding the right to vote and own property. This became known as first-wave feminism, focused primarily on legal inequalities and suffrage.
#14
Forrest Hobbs 13 hours ago
Oh my word. So my comment got all those downvotes? Look, if you're doing physics at university, the majority of those in your lectures are male. Most such are heterosexual. That's just how it is. So, those who happen to be female are - well, rare and welcome (with a tendency to weirdness coupled with razor sharp minds - umm, along with everyone else in the cohort... 😬🤣). And trust me, I'm definitely right about the dress sense of the typical physics student. You're going to university to understand how the universe works - you think that sort of person is worrying about how to dress to impress in lectures? On special occasions, maybe - but otherwise? Pfft. 🙄
CK 9 hours ago
I don't think your comment actually got downvoted. Other random comments are getting this too, so it's probably a glitch.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
I never liked Barbies or any kind of human doll/baby doll XD I remember for a few years, some relatives would still give me Barbies as bday/Xmas gifts, and I would always perform "surgery" on them XD I preferred my dinosaur toys, my Transformers, and my GI Joes. I had a bunch of cheap shoddy horse toys too, and I used to play with them in the backyard - they were a tribe of meat-eating horses who had a hierarchical rule system XD They would go to war with rival tribes of horses (aka the horse toys I liked the least) and have grand battles with a lot of casualties. I was a strange child. XD
Ms.GB 47 minutes ago
My parents bought me a doll house and I used it to reenact the manson murders. I'm really surprised they didn't put me in therapy.
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Bluonthefront 32 minutes ago
I had one Barbie. Just wasn't into her. Now my stuffed animals and plastic horses...
Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
Well if it’s for a lad lol hot wheels obviously , Barbie’s belong in the bloody bin !
Lady Eowyn 23 minutes ago
Why obviously Hot Wheels for a boy? Boys can like dolls if they want to. What a judgmental comment.
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Emilu 14 hours ago
As great as the clapback here is, I'd have trouble not smacking anyone that said that to me in the jaw, if I'm being truly honest.
nottheactualphoto 10 hours ago
How would they say it to you in the jaw? I'm trying to picture it.
Load More Replies... Callum Young 11 minutes ago
"Older" women? Not any of the older women I know. They actually fired up the civil, women's, and environmental rights movements. Please check the ageism at the door, people.
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
That law degree won't steal the covers and fart up the bed all night either.
The suffragette movement brought women together in unprecedented numbers. In the United States, the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 marked the official beginning of organized efforts for women’s suffrage.
Around 300 women and men came together to discuss the status of women and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which boldly stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
From there, the campaign grew. Activists marched and protested, and some were imprisoned or lost their lives for their activism. Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th Amendment, while in the UK, all women over 21 could finally vote by 1928. These victories came after decades of relentless campaigning.
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Lady Eowyn 22 minutes ago
Male reindeer have antlers, they just shed them yearly and the females don't.
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Crazy Cookie 15 hours ago
THATS WHY IT HAS TO BE A MASQUERADE <- person who is totally chill about how Disney adapted Cinderella
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Michael Largey 1 hour ago
The standard reply for anyone should be "Back up 30 feet or so, and we'll see how that works."
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The beauty of never leaving the house , cos if a bloke said that to me , it gets a sarcastic comment as a reply , like I can’t see anything around her to smile at or worse depending on the day , , ie him lol it is one comment that instantly gets my hackles up ,
Second-wave feminism emerged in the 1960s and 70s, broadening the conversation beyond legal rights to cultural inequalities. This wave tackled workplace inequality and reproductive rights alongside questions of sexuality and family dynamics.
Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” and Gloria Steinem’s activism helped galvanize a generation of women to question the limited roles society expected them to fill. The movement achieved significant legal victories, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title IX in 1972.
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Nikole 15 hours ago
I'm trying to do my part, but it's been really cold out!
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Apatheist 1 hour ago
Side note (that you won't like): crimes committed by trans women share the same profile as those committed by men, not those committed by women.
Michael Largey 3 minutes ago
Suggesting only that the negative conditioning men are given is given quite early in life.
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Charlotte A. 4 hours ago
Hey! We should only have to commit another 30% of the crimes! Fair's fair!
Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
Lmao well I never used to but decades of a b us e changed me for the worse so come on jessica you letting the side down girl !,
Billo66 5 hours ago
Sorry you went through all that. It can change you for sure. When I got cancer I was very weak, my wife and I were arguing over her IV meth use. I threw away her stuff. She pushed me to the ground and repeatedly kicked me saying "I hope you die before the kids remember who you are." My kids don't remember her doing that thank goodness, but I have full custody now and she is in Prison. And despite her best efforts, I'm still alive.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 17 hours ago
As an alpha male I have to tell you that I find it very cringe when men have to tell people that they are alpha males themselves. I can assure you, as an alpha male, no true alpha male would do this.
Devin Schmitt 16 hours ago
What about an epsilon male...do they need to announce it?
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Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
If u gotta tell people your an alpha you as far from one as you can get ,
Billo66 4 hours ago
I'm not even Beta yet. Still Pre-release testing. My coder was drunk.
Load More Replies...Third-wave feminism began in the early 1990s, responding to what some saw as the failures and limitations of second-wave feminism. This wave embraced individualism and diversity, challenging the idea that there was a single way to be a feminist.
It focused heavily on intersectionality, a term coined by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, recognizing that women’s experiences differ based on factors like race and class. Third-wave feminists also reclaimed terms and symbols that had previously been used to demean women, turning them into sources of power.
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April Pickett 13 hours ago
That's true. Back before those ladies, you would have to have your husband/father sign off on you having a checking account, a car, a house. It wasn't that long ago that was the norm.
Leigh Currie 16 minutes ago
Precisely why I always vote even when the choices are all equally unappealing. Women died and suffered (Cat and Mouse Act) to enable me to vote. The least I can do is walk to the polling station.
Billo66 5 hours ago
I think there is an old outdated law on the books in Alabama iirc that says a woman driving an automobile must have a man walking in front of her waving a red flag. Or some such nonsense. There's also an Army regulation against having relations with a chicken. It was frowned on. lol
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
The state of Alabama is still full of red flags, but none of them have anything to do with women drivers.
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Giraffe Sitter 16 hours ago
Why would us guys need experience if we’ll end up with someone who doesn’t know the difference?
#25
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 17 hours ago
Do not care try to take my masculinity away from me! I will throw a hissy fit it you try!
Fourth-wave feminism, emerging around 2012, is largely defined by technology and social media activism. The #MeToo movement showed how quickly women could organize online to expose systemic problems in workplaces and institutions. This wave continues to emphasize intersectionality while using digital platforms to call out inequality in real time.
Yet progress remains frustratingly uneven. Women still earn less than men for the same work and face ongoing battles over reproductive rights. The fight continues, just with different tools than previous generations had.
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Crystalwitch60 6 hours ago
Exactly this , I’m perfectly capable of protecting myself , I had to learn THE VILE HARD WAY !
#27
Phantom Phoenix 10 hours ago
"Read the full article" says the guy who failed to read the byline
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
Nope. Try domestic víolence, séxual hárássment, rápe, ábuse, discrimination in the workplace, and stálking/unwanted attention/verbal hárrásment. DV and rápe and all the other things DO happen to men (my father was physically, verbally, and mentally ábused by my mother) but percentagewise, those things happen to women far more often.
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Bluonthefront 25 minutes ago
Change "man" replying to "male." The men get it and aren't the problem. The males are always the problem.
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#31
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 17 hours ago
D**n it I am gay. Excuse me whilst I break the news to my parents.
Bluonthefront 22 minutes ago
We are currently experiencing a crisis level of fragile male egos. The streets are littered with pieces.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 17 hours ago
Wait... Women can read assembly and set up instructions? Whatever next!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago (edited)
My sister (who has never been in a relationship/dated anyone of any gender, so it's not like she's relied on a "partner" for stuff) is constantly surprised and weirdly píssed-off at me that I constantly refuse to ask my ex for help with things like carrying heavy objects (like 40-lb bags of cat litter; I have 6 cats!) or assembling furniture, or putting large awkward things (like my Halloween and Xmas dog decorations) into the attic. I do all of that stuff by myself. I don't ask for help, I don't need help. What she doesn't really get is that, even during the 24 years when I was actually IN a relationship with my ex, when he was my boyfriend, I ALREADY was doing all those things by myself and never got any help with them XD But it started even earlier than that, because my dad taught me how to do things for myself and not rely on "a man" to open jars or check the oil in my car or change a car tire. Apparently my sister didn't want to learn those things XD Whenever she has a problem, she just relies on mechanics/handymen/etc.
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Lady Eowyn 14 minutes ago
The only time I had trouble assembling a piece of DIY furniture, the person I called for help - a man, because I didn't know any females who could help at that time - also had a lot of trouble. It wasn't me, it was the directions.
Crystalwitch60 7 hours ago
Lmao I’m the queen of flat pack stuff ! and I don’t need no de structions either ,they always useless , I’ve also taught my daughter as well as my son ,
#34
Neon_Pickles 15 hours ago
Oh heavens no! Not the exposed brastrap! GASP! I'm not looking forward to this nonsense when I eventually go on HRT... the fact that people think it's inappropriate to show a brastrap is wild.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
Wait until it gets a little chilly and the níppareenos show, even through one's bra/shirt layers XD You'll get disdain and dirty looks from other women and unwanted attention/laser-focus stares from men. Wishing you luck on your future HRT journey and I hope it goes smoothly! <3
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Moving Enigma 1 hour ago
It depends on if I am trying to keep my cross-dressing low key or if I'm in a "shock and awe" mood lol.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 16 hours ago
Ha ha! Levels of misunderstanding that end up in perfect understanding....!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
It's... it's a slang term, Ace. Not a grammatical error. It's a meme/slang term purposefully used in the proper manner here.
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Geoffrey Scott 5 hours ago
So we got our last Coivid stimulus check and I suggested we check out bathroom vanities for a remodel. My wife, practical person she is, "How old is the furnace?"..."umm..20 y/o"..we got a new furnace.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 16 hours ago
I got my wife, among other things, a cobweb duster. Far and away her favorite gift this year.
Pernille 8 hours ago
I have an ostrich feather duster, and I love walking around idly dusting random things while being attacked by the cats trying to catch the strange bird. I wouldn't have been angry at getting it as a gift, as long as I could give you an automatic window washer.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 6 hours ago
I,ll buy my own washer , cooker etc thanks don’t need a man to do it for me , I,ll also fit the washer to ,cooker I leave to qualified sparkies obvs also all household appliances I always choose bought ,n fitted 🤷♀️
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#39
LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
What "certain tasks"? Peeing while standing up? Getting teabagged?
Phantom Phoenix 10 hours ago
So it's not that they think women aren't as good. They just think men are better. Got it.
DH 10 hours ago (edited)
Truth is that all people, men and women and all other sexes, prefer to hang out with people that they feel comfortable with, which most often. Is people like themselves. This is why affirmative action is important. We need all kinds of people in all positions so that everyone gets an equal chance.
#40
Jaya 16 hours ago
As they say: Men are nervous their date is gonna reject them, women are nervous their date is gonna k**l them.
Nikole 15 hours ago
When I moved back home for a bit after college, I would text my bestie and also tell my younger brother. I'd tell them the guy's name, where I'm going, his phone number... Thankfully nothing ever happened, but better safe than sorry.
Load More Replies... Blue Bunny of Happiness 5 hours ago
Yup and call friend to confirm safely home afterwards (and adding in a date debrief as a side benefit).
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Pagan squirrel 2 hours ago
Isn't the lack of pockets in womens clothes something to do with the handbag manufacturers? Some sort of agreement. Not sure if this is true but I can believe it.
Surly Scot 25 minutes ago
I came across a video once explaining something like it goes back a couple of centuries where women's clothes didn't come with pockets so they couldn't hide feminist pamphlets/forbidden books, limiting their knowledge, ability to conduct business and economic opportunity. Carried on from there for one reason or another. Something along those lines.
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April Pickett 13 hours ago
No, men are the ones worried that their spouse/GF is making more money than they are. I knew a couple that were going to Mexico. She was in IT and he was a bartender. Guess who had problems with that trip. (She didn't & he did because it was her money being spent)
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
My wife always made more money than me, and we both would have been delighted if she had made even more.
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Forrest Hobbs 13 hours ago
That's Philomena Cunk as played by Diane Morgan. Watch anything entitled "Cunk on..." Charlie Brooker apparently has the writing credits, but Diane Morgan is a force of nature.
#45
Forrest Hobbs 16 hours ago
Ahem. What's this nonsense about "men's inability to show and properly communicate blah blah blah"? 🤨 Take a leaf out of Professor Germaine Greer's book and stop talking about things you don't understand - that is, men.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
Wow, wouldn't it be nice if men also did the same thing about women and female-centric problems and issues such as menstruation, abortion, etc.?
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Michael Largey 59 minutes ago
Is it really mansplaining if the guy has been explicitly asked to explain something?
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Emilu 13 hours ago
Naw. If I'm angry, trust me; you'll know I'm angry. It takes a lot, but you'll know.
Nikole 13 hours ago
Ha, oh same. I'm not a shrinking violet, but I understand why some women are.
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Kalikima 1 hour ago
Sometimes I cry when I'm angry, and it just makes me angrier and frustrated, and I can't say what I want to say clearly. It's the worst feeling. I never realized there was a reason for it, but I realize now I was never allowed to be angry as a kid. As a teen, I cried a lot and cut myself. Now I just cry when I'm angry, it's literally the only reason I've cried in the last 10 years.
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Nikole 15 hours ago
She's so awesome! She dumps on MAGA Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) all of the time.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 15 hours ago
I mean, kinda both? XD But for me, it was caused/perpetuated/first inflicted upon me by my mother all throughout my childhood and teen years. Then I managed to date a guy for 24 years who was basically my mother in dude form! Good times!
April Pickett 13 hours ago
I was always to not be a distraction, give way to other people, be polite and considerate, and never to confront people.
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