On Thanksgiving morning, the kids were having fun playing in the clothes hampers. Both of them can still sit down inside and pretend it's a little house/cage/cave.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Heidi
Heidi has recently developed a love for going down slides and swinging. She has the sweetest smile when she's doing it.
One of Heidi's favorite games these days is to dance on the table and giggle while shrieking, "Get down! Get down!" She also likes to lean over the counter from the table and turn on the water.
I secretly enjoy it when she clutches things and says with a sweet smile, "Mine! Mine!"
She has just figured out how to open doors. I'm happy for her, but what a pain. Is it possible that this little sweetheart will one day become a two-year-old?
One of Heidi's favorite games these days is to dance on the table and giggle while shrieking, "Get down! Get down!" She also likes to lean over the counter from the table and turn on the water.
I secretly enjoy it when she clutches things and says with a sweet smile, "Mine! Mine!"
She has just figured out how to open doors. I'm happy for her, but what a pain. Is it possible that this little sweetheart will one day become a two-year-old?
She loves to point to body parts and hear us name them. Her favorites are eyes, nose, and cheeks.
She will usually try to repeat what we say if we point to something and tell her what it is.
She finally has two more teeth, bringing the total up to eight teeth. It seems like most other kids already have a lot more at seventeen months old.
Today Heidi graduated from Relief Society. Since the custom in our ward is for kids to start attending Nursery at the beginning of the month when they turn 18 months old, next week is her first official week of Nursery (our church's class for kids that are 18 months to about 3 years old). I was dreading the six months before she got old enough because it was so hard to be in church when Kevin was that age, but it was much more bearable with Heidi. I'm still relieved that she's finally old enough to attend the nursery, though, because for the last few weeks all she has wanted to do is open the classroom door and run out in the hall, so I've spent the entire time standing by the door to keep her inside so I could get something out of the lesson. Hopefully she'll adjust okay. She has been to Nursery several times because I've substituted in Kevin's class, so it's already familiar.
When Heidi gets up in the morning or from a nap, she always wants to gather up every blanket and every stuffed animal that is in her bed, which sometimes means she is holding two stuffed dogs, her duck lovey, and two blankets. She also will insist that we drape a blanket over her head and wrap it around her. She has recently become very fond of the pink blanket in the pictures below.
Heidi's hair is getting a little longer, which means I can kind of fix it now if I have time or feel motivated. I can do one ponytail on the side with a clip, or I can do pigtails. Here's her I-slept-in-pigtails hair.
Today Heidi graduated from Relief Society. Since the custom in our ward is for kids to start attending Nursery at the beginning of the month when they turn 18 months old, next week is her first official week of Nursery (our church's class for kids that are 18 months to about 3 years old). I was dreading the six months before she got old enough because it was so hard to be in church when Kevin was that age, but it was much more bearable with Heidi. I'm still relieved that she's finally old enough to attend the nursery, though, because for the last few weeks all she has wanted to do is open the classroom door and run out in the hall, so I've spent the entire time standing by the door to keep her inside so I could get something out of the lesson. Hopefully she'll adjust okay. She has been to Nursery several times because I've substituted in Kevin's class, so it's already familiar.
When Heidi gets up in the morning or from a nap, she always wants to gather up every blanket and every stuffed animal that is in her bed, which sometimes means she is holding two stuffed dogs, her duck lovey, and two blankets. She also will insist that we drape a blanket over her head and wrap it around her. She has recently become very fond of the pink blanket in the pictures below.
Heidi's hair is getting a little longer, which means I can kind of fix it now if I have time or feel motivated. I can do one ponytail on the side with a clip, or I can do pigtails. Here's her I-slept-in-pigtails hair.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
something to consider when choosing a major
This is a topic I keep wanting to write about, but I'm not really an expert on it, just a lowly seventh-year undergraduate student, so I keep changing my mind and deciding not to. But today I felt again like I'd really like to share my thoughts, and if anybody wants to comment and add to the discussion, I'd love to hear from you!
Our society needs to change the way we look at higher education. My observation is that most students who are planning on going to college have the perception, "I'm going to get my education." My education. It's not an entitlement. College is not the just the thing you do after you're done with high school. It's an investment. I admit that I was guilty of this perception. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with getting higher education. I think it's valuable for people to attend college. But it's more than the next step.
(As an aside, I think another change we need to make is for high school to prepare students for better jobs than McDonalds. Students who want to work after high school should have access to classes in high school that give them job skills.)
I think parents and advisors need to encourage high school students and new college students to think farther ahead than which major they will choose. When I was in high school there was plenty of talk of majoring in what you are passionate about. And that's important to some extent. But college is not just about entertainment. I said it before--college is an investment. It's great to go to college and learn about all sorts of interesting things, but when you graduate you're supposed to be more qualified for a job than you were when you graduated from high school.
Every year it's always interesting to hear all the freshmen, who are all trying to get to know everyone, talking about what they're going to major in. Usually the talk goes along the lines of, "Oh, I'm not really sure what I'm going to major in yet. I love linguistics, but I think philosophy would be really interesting, but then I also love English literature." There's not a lot of talk about what job they would like to be hired for after they graduate. It's all about what is interesting.
And then we have thousands of students all over the United States who are now complaining that they have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan debt and that they can't find a job. I will acknowledge that jobs have been a little more scarce for the past few years, but at the same time there are many industries that would love to hire more people, but there aren't enough people who are qualified. There's something to be said for studying what you're interested in. You can have a horrible life doing something you hate but making a lot of money. But if you want a reliable income, there's also something to be said for choosing a field that is in high demand.
We need to think about college differently. If you do a search on Google, there are many lists that show unemployment rates and salaries for different majors. Students going to college need to look at these lists and seriously consider whether the major they are passionate about would be a wise investment of their time and money. They need to realize that there are trade-offs in different majors. Some majors are really interesting, but people with degrees in those fields aren't paid well, or there aren't a lot of jobs in that field. If you choose that kind of major, you might want to supplement it with a minor or internships or jobs that get you more useful skills. Or you might need to resign yourself to the fact that you will always need to be frugal. Some majors are very challenging, but they lead to good-paying or high-demand jobs. There's something to be said for studying and working in a field that you are passionate about, but then again job security and financial security are also very valuable.
So in other words, pick something that you can stand and that can make you enough money that you can cover your expenses.
This post is in no way meant to disparage anyone. I can't make any judgment about an individual person's choices, because personal revelation and personal experiences play a significant role in choosing a major or a job or any other path. My main point is that in our society we need talk more about which majors are more likely to lead to jobs instead of focusing so much on majoring in what we are passionate about, so that at graduation it won't be a surprise to so many people that certain fields don't pay well or don't have a lot of available jobs. Then if some people still choose those fields, they will know what they are getting into.
Our society needs to change the way we look at higher education. My observation is that most students who are planning on going to college have the perception, "I'm going to get my education." My education. It's not an entitlement. College is not the just the thing you do after you're done with high school. It's an investment. I admit that I was guilty of this perception. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with getting higher education. I think it's valuable for people to attend college. But it's more than the next step.
(As an aside, I think another change we need to make is for high school to prepare students for better jobs than McDonalds. Students who want to work after high school should have access to classes in high school that give them job skills.)
I think parents and advisors need to encourage high school students and new college students to think farther ahead than which major they will choose. When I was in high school there was plenty of talk of majoring in what you are passionate about. And that's important to some extent. But college is not just about entertainment. I said it before--college is an investment. It's great to go to college and learn about all sorts of interesting things, but when you graduate you're supposed to be more qualified for a job than you were when you graduated from high school.
Every year it's always interesting to hear all the freshmen, who are all trying to get to know everyone, talking about what they're going to major in. Usually the talk goes along the lines of, "Oh, I'm not really sure what I'm going to major in yet. I love linguistics, but I think philosophy would be really interesting, but then I also love English literature." There's not a lot of talk about what job they would like to be hired for after they graduate. It's all about what is interesting.
And then we have thousands of students all over the United States who are now complaining that they have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan debt and that they can't find a job. I will acknowledge that jobs have been a little more scarce for the past few years, but at the same time there are many industries that would love to hire more people, but there aren't enough people who are qualified. There's something to be said for studying what you're interested in. You can have a horrible life doing something you hate but making a lot of money. But if you want a reliable income, there's also something to be said for choosing a field that is in high demand.
We need to think about college differently. If you do a search on Google, there are many lists that show unemployment rates and salaries for different majors. Students going to college need to look at these lists and seriously consider whether the major they are passionate about would be a wise investment of their time and money. They need to realize that there are trade-offs in different majors. Some majors are really interesting, but people with degrees in those fields aren't paid well, or there aren't a lot of jobs in that field. If you choose that kind of major, you might want to supplement it with a minor or internships or jobs that get you more useful skills. Or you might need to resign yourself to the fact that you will always need to be frugal. Some majors are very challenging, but they lead to good-paying or high-demand jobs. There's something to be said for studying and working in a field that you are passionate about, but then again job security and financial security are also very valuable.
So in other words, pick something that you can stand and that can make you enough money that you can cover your expenses.
This post is in no way meant to disparage anyone. I can't make any judgment about an individual person's choices, because personal revelation and personal experiences play a significant role in choosing a major or a job or any other path. My main point is that in our society we need talk more about which majors are more likely to lead to jobs instead of focusing so much on majoring in what we are passionate about, so that at graduation it won't be a surprise to so many people that certain fields don't pay well or don't have a lot of available jobs. Then if some people still choose those fields, they will know what they are getting into.
Monday, November 19, 2012
ruts, projects, and water samples
Wow, I haven't blogged since the 8th. Occasionally I think about it, but I didn't really have anything to say. I do have cute things about Kevin/Heidi posts that I update occasionally, but I haven't been ready to post them yet. Oh, and Ryan's parents came and visited, but I haven't gotten around to uploading the pictures yet.
I have been in a rut when it comes to reading books. I'm not really sure how many books I have started without finishing in the past couple of months. Wives and Daughters, Silent Spring, Out of the Silent Planet, The Dark Is Rising, probably several more. I've tried rereading favorites, starting ones I've always wanted to read, reading books that others recommended, and most books just haven't done it for me. The only one I actually finished was Flowers for Algernon. I read it several years ago and liked it pretty well, but this time I couldn't put it down. I started it in the evening, read until 2 a.m. and couldn't sleep even then, and finished it the next day. It has a lot more meaning now than it did when I was younger because I've had more life experiences (relationships, marriage, children, college, etc.). In the end I cried. But after that I still haven't been able to get out of the rut. I've started Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and it seems promising, so we'll see. I think a lot of my problem is that I have a lot of other things that need to get done and I feel bad reading when I really ought to be finishing homework or a project.
It looks like we're going to have a rather handmade Christmas. I keep thinking about what I could get the kids for Christmas and I just don't want any more toys. But I do have a lot of fabric and scraps, and a few pounds of brown rice that (let's face it) we will never eat. So I'm going to use them to make some quiet book pages and little bean bags.
I also made some more bias tape for another project. I have several baskets that we got when we bought peaches at the farmer's market, and I've decided I'm going to put ruffles around them and put them on top of my cupboards to hold food so that my food storage won't look ugly up there anymore. The bias tape is to make the top edge of the ruffle look finished. Ryan and watched Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy while I was working on the bias tape. I'm intrigued and hoping that the library also has the next movie in the series.
Yesterday I spent the entire day getting my water samples ready to go in the mass spectrometer. It's quite a process. You use these tiny funnels called columns that have a very narrow neck with a little sponge in it. First you put resin and water in the column, and you have to let all the water drain out so that there is just resin in the column. Then you put more water and also nitric acid in the column and have to let it drain out, and you do that several times. Finally, you put the sample through the column. I'm studying the strontium, and the strontium sticks to the resin in the column while everything else goes through. After I put the sample through, I had to put 12 drops of nitric acid in and let it drain out--and then do it again six times. Then I put the column over a new beaker and put water in it, which had to drain out, and then more water, which also had to drain out. The water gets the strontium out of the resin and into the beaker. Altogether it took twelve hours, because it takes a while for the liquid to drain through the resin every time, probably at least half an hour. Usually it takes around eight hours, but for some reason the columns were draining really slowly yesterday. So it was a matter of putting liquid in, waiting, checking to see if it had drained, waiting some more, adding more liquid, waiting, checking, on and on. I knew there would be a lot of waiting, so I came prepared with homework. I ended up getting two pages of a paper done and making some headway on a final lab project. Oh, and the building was really cold, and the lab was even colder. There are a couple more steps and then the sample will go into a mass spectrometer.
Meanwhile, Ryan got to take the kids to Kindermusik and spend the entire day with them. Here's a google chat we exchanged late at night when I was still watching water drip:
Earlier today I was thinking about making mini quiches (which I have never done before), but I didn't really feel up to making pie crust. Dinner time came and it still hadn't happened. I told Ryan I was having a hard time figuring out what to make for dinner because there wasn't time to do the quiches. So he opened up the Tanner family cookbook to a random page and pointed at a recipe: Chicken Pot Pie. "I don't feel like making pie crust," I repeated. He tried again: Beef Pot Pie. I think he might have done it again and landed on Beef Pot Pie a second time. "Okay, apparently I'm supposed to make pie crusts tonight," I decided. But we had macaroni and cheese for dinner and I mixed the pie crust to use later. So I guess tomorrow is quiche and then I have two more pie crusts left for pie. And it just so happens that we're eating pie on Thursday with Jared and Kristi and family, so I guess I did some work ahead of time. We are very excited to get to have Thanksgiving with family.
I have been in a rut when it comes to reading books. I'm not really sure how many books I have started without finishing in the past couple of months. Wives and Daughters, Silent Spring, Out of the Silent Planet, The Dark Is Rising, probably several more. I've tried rereading favorites, starting ones I've always wanted to read, reading books that others recommended, and most books just haven't done it for me. The only one I actually finished was Flowers for Algernon. I read it several years ago and liked it pretty well, but this time I couldn't put it down. I started it in the evening, read until 2 a.m. and couldn't sleep even then, and finished it the next day. It has a lot more meaning now than it did when I was younger because I've had more life experiences (relationships, marriage, children, college, etc.). In the end I cried. But after that I still haven't been able to get out of the rut. I've started Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and it seems promising, so we'll see. I think a lot of my problem is that I have a lot of other things that need to get done and I feel bad reading when I really ought to be finishing homework or a project.
It looks like we're going to have a rather handmade Christmas. I keep thinking about what I could get the kids for Christmas and I just don't want any more toys. But I do have a lot of fabric and scraps, and a few pounds of brown rice that (let's face it) we will never eat. So I'm going to use them to make some quiet book pages and little bean bags.
I also made some more bias tape for another project. I have several baskets that we got when we bought peaches at the farmer's market, and I've decided I'm going to put ruffles around them and put them on top of my cupboards to hold food so that my food storage won't look ugly up there anymore. The bias tape is to make the top edge of the ruffle look finished. Ryan and watched Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy while I was working on the bias tape. I'm intrigued and hoping that the library also has the next movie in the series.
Yesterday I spent the entire day getting my water samples ready to go in the mass spectrometer. It's quite a process. You use these tiny funnels called columns that have a very narrow neck with a little sponge in it. First you put resin and water in the column, and you have to let all the water drain out so that there is just resin in the column. Then you put more water and also nitric acid in the column and have to let it drain out, and you do that several times. Finally, you put the sample through the column. I'm studying the strontium, and the strontium sticks to the resin in the column while everything else goes through. After I put the sample through, I had to put 12 drops of nitric acid in and let it drain out--and then do it again six times. Then I put the column over a new beaker and put water in it, which had to drain out, and then more water, which also had to drain out. The water gets the strontium out of the resin and into the beaker. Altogether it took twelve hours, because it takes a while for the liquid to drain through the resin every time, probably at least half an hour. Usually it takes around eight hours, but for some reason the columns were draining really slowly yesterday. So it was a matter of putting liquid in, waiting, checking to see if it had drained, waiting some more, adding more liquid, waiting, checking, on and on. I knew there would be a lot of waiting, so I came prepared with homework. I ended up getting two pages of a paper done and making some headway on a final lab project. Oh, and the building was really cold, and the lab was even colder. There are a couple more steps and then the sample will go into a mass spectrometer.
Meanwhile, Ryan got to take the kids to Kindermusik and spend the entire day with them. Here's a google chat we exchanged late at night when I was still watching water drip:
Earlier today I was thinking about making mini quiches (which I have never done before), but I didn't really feel up to making pie crust. Dinner time came and it still hadn't happened. I told Ryan I was having a hard time figuring out what to make for dinner because there wasn't time to do the quiches. So he opened up the Tanner family cookbook to a random page and pointed at a recipe: Chicken Pot Pie. "I don't feel like making pie crust," I repeated. He tried again: Beef Pot Pie. I think he might have done it again and landed on Beef Pot Pie a second time. "Okay, apparently I'm supposed to make pie crusts tonight," I decided. But we had macaroni and cheese for dinner and I mixed the pie crust to use later. So I guess tomorrow is quiche and then I have two more pie crusts left for pie. And it just so happens that we're eating pie on Thursday with Jared and Kristi and family, so I guess I did some work ahead of time. We are very excited to get to have Thanksgiving with family.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
election ramblings
Well, it was an interesting election. Four years ago, I didn't particularly care who was elected president because I didn't have a lot of faith in either one. This time was different. I really like Mitt Romney, and I'm disappointed that he wasn't elected. In my opinion, government debt is our biggest problem, and I felt that he would do a good job getting the country back on track financially. I also think he is a really nice guy, and I'm disappointed that the media spread a lot of lies and half-truths to make him look like a greedy jerk. That being said, although Obama is inexperienced and (in my opinion) misguided in some of his policies, I think that he is also a good person and wants America to succeed. I've taken a couple of quizzes that show that I actually agree with Obama on most issues. It doesn't all rest on him, either--and really I think it all depends more on Congress than on the president. If the Republicans refuse to work with him and make compromises, then it's just as much their fault as Obama's fault if they make a mess of things. The Republicans and the Democrats have a lot more things that they agree on than things they disagree on, but they're always focusing on the things they disagree on. It got so bad this year that I decided to block Facebook on my computer until the election was over so I wouldn't have to see any more bitter and hateful comments or articles. We have got to get over that if we're going to make any improvements in government. I intend to join our church leaders in praying for our national leaders.
I always try to make informed decisions when voting for local officials. It's hard because they're not publicized nearly as much as candidates for president or Congress, but I still try to do my best because in many ways they will have a bigger impact on our area than the federal government will. A lot of people just vote a straight party ticket, and I think that's a mistake. I think I ended up voting for about half Democrats and half Republicans this time. There were some cases where I disagreed with the Democratic candidate, but the Republican candidate was obviously not qualified for the office they were running for. There were also some Republican candidates who I disagreed with more than the Democratic candidate. In one case the choice was between the Democratic incumbent who has been doing a fairly decent job and a Republican who has all sorts of drama in her life that I didn't want being brought to state government. I would have missed all that if I had just decided to vote a straight party ticket.
As I was researching different candidates, I thought it was interesting to see what kind of effect different people's websites had on me. I'm not impressed by a website that has nothing but a biography and a list of the top five priorities. I need more than that to decide. But what's worse is a website that has so much yellow or neon green that I almost go blind. If a person doesn't even have enough sense to have a decent web site design, I'm not so sure they'll do a good job in public office.
I always try to make informed decisions when voting for local officials. It's hard because they're not publicized nearly as much as candidates for president or Congress, but I still try to do my best because in many ways they will have a bigger impact on our area than the federal government will. A lot of people just vote a straight party ticket, and I think that's a mistake. I think I ended up voting for about half Democrats and half Republicans this time. There were some cases where I disagreed with the Democratic candidate, but the Republican candidate was obviously not qualified for the office they were running for. There were also some Republican candidates who I disagreed with more than the Democratic candidate. In one case the choice was between the Democratic incumbent who has been doing a fairly decent job and a Republican who has all sorts of drama in her life that I didn't want being brought to state government. I would have missed all that if I had just decided to vote a straight party ticket.
As I was researching different candidates, I thought it was interesting to see what kind of effect different people's websites had on me. I'm not impressed by a website that has nothing but a biography and a list of the top five priorities. I need more than that to decide. But what's worse is a website that has so much yellow or neon green that I almost go blind. If a person doesn't even have enough sense to have a decent web site design, I'm not so sure they'll do a good job in public office.
Monday, October 29, 2012
on chivalry
So, I had an interesting experience today that made me stop and think.
This morning after my class, I went down to the study lounge for an hour to work on a lab that is due tomorrow. I sat down at a table with a couple of other people who are in my class since it was apparent that we were all working on the same problem. In a couple of minutes two other guys in the class had also sat down at the table. They're friendly guys and they know their geology, but there was also swearing and one guy even belched. No, I didn't say anything, because I hate asking people I don't know very well not to swear.
Then I had to meet with a guy who was helping me to filter my water samples. I had never met him before, and I was surprised to find that he's the sort of guy who casually swears a couple of times per sentence. Anything possible was described using a swear word. This might be surprising, but he probably swears more than anyone I've ever met (although some people I knew in high school probably swear a lot more now than they used to).
Well, at one point I went upstairs alone to the Geochemistry lab to get something, and the postdoc who is, I guess, my advisor was in there and asked how things were going with the filtering. We chatted for a second and then he followed me out. As we got to the door he stopped, and then said, "Oh," as if he'd forgotten something, and then opened the door for me. The interesting thing was that for two hours I had been around loud swearing boys who weren't at all sensitive to the fact that I was a girl, so when he did that simple gesture it was kind of a shock. And then I realized how much of a difference it makes when men try to be sensitive to women.
I'm not really one to care if men hold the door open for me. I hear the stories of women who sit haughtily in the car until their date/son/husband realizes their mistake and opens the door for her, and I don't admire those women. I think it's very unkind to make men feel awkward like that. I know that Ryan has a lot on his mind, and I don't want to hurt his feelings by making a fuss if he forgets to open the door for me. I'm a big girl--I can open a door for myself. (By the way, my dad always opens the car door for my mom. Even when we were little and they had to get us out of car seats, he would walk all the way around and let her out before getting anyone else out of the car. That is also great. It's just different.)
But this was a reminder to me that it is still important to teach our sons to be sensitive to women. I think in our culture lately there has been this feeling that women need to be independent and that they want to be the same as men, but we need to realize that it does make a difference when men make an effort to be sensitive and thoughtful to women. (It's also true that women need to be sensitive and thoughtful towards men, but that is perhaps a different post.)
Something to keep in mind.
This morning after my class, I went down to the study lounge for an hour to work on a lab that is due tomorrow. I sat down at a table with a couple of other people who are in my class since it was apparent that we were all working on the same problem. In a couple of minutes two other guys in the class had also sat down at the table. They're friendly guys and they know their geology, but there was also swearing and one guy even belched. No, I didn't say anything, because I hate asking people I don't know very well not to swear.
Then I had to meet with a guy who was helping me to filter my water samples. I had never met him before, and I was surprised to find that he's the sort of guy who casually swears a couple of times per sentence. Anything possible was described using a swear word. This might be surprising, but he probably swears more than anyone I've ever met (although some people I knew in high school probably swear a lot more now than they used to).
Well, at one point I went upstairs alone to the Geochemistry lab to get something, and the postdoc who is, I guess, my advisor was in there and asked how things were going with the filtering. We chatted for a second and then he followed me out. As we got to the door he stopped, and then said, "Oh," as if he'd forgotten something, and then opened the door for me. The interesting thing was that for two hours I had been around loud swearing boys who weren't at all sensitive to the fact that I was a girl, so when he did that simple gesture it was kind of a shock. And then I realized how much of a difference it makes when men try to be sensitive to women.
I'm not really one to care if men hold the door open for me. I hear the stories of women who sit haughtily in the car until their date/son/husband realizes their mistake and opens the door for her, and I don't admire those women. I think it's very unkind to make men feel awkward like that. I know that Ryan has a lot on his mind, and I don't want to hurt his feelings by making a fuss if he forgets to open the door for me. I'm a big girl--I can open a door for myself. (By the way, my dad always opens the car door for my mom. Even when we were little and they had to get us out of car seats, he would walk all the way around and let her out before getting anyone else out of the car. That is also great. It's just different.)
But this was a reminder to me that it is still important to teach our sons to be sensitive to women. I think in our culture lately there has been this feeling that women need to be independent and that they want to be the same as men, but we need to realize that it does make a difference when men make an effort to be sensitive and thoughtful to women. (It's also true that women need to be sensitive and thoughtful towards men, but that is perhaps a different post.)
Something to keep in mind.
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