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Back to school for absolute beginners.

Yeap,  yeap, yeap it is that time of the year again, brace your self for the how was your holiday slash what did you do for your holiday questions.  To be honest, I'd rather talk about the weather than rumage through my brain searching for all the fun, wonderful, exciting and money draining activities I got up to during the freaking holidays. Which by the way was a lot. To be completely honest, which I clearly wasn't in my previous paragraph, i'd rather not talk about the weather and just skip right to wishing everyone a merry christmas. Yeap, you heard me right, merry Christmas to all you kind and unkind folks out there. Don't you dare say I never do any thing nice for y'all... Do I sound like a grumpy old goat? Well, maybe I am and maybe I am. The thing is, I find the how was your holiday questions extremely boriiiiiing.  If you want to tell me all about the wonderfull and exciting things you and your amaaaaaaaazballs family got up to during your holidays

Racism and sexism: a match made in hell...

Funny  or not funny enough, #racism and #sexism are opposite sides of the same coin. They are both systematic tools for oppression, manipulation and control of certain groups of people by other groups of people. They both confer a variety of privileges on certain groups of individuals at the expense of another group. They both impact and  transfer significant socio cultural, political and economic power from one group of individuals to another group of individuals.... Apart from stealing from people socio-culturally, Politically and economically,  racism and sexism also rob it's victims of their self worth, self esteem, self confidence and awareness because surprise or not so surprise, that is exactly what they are designed to do.  To put It ever so nicely, sexism and racism are the the oposite of the gift that keeps on giving wonderful and nice,  jolly things... Finally,  people who benefit from either sexism or racism or both are generally either unwilling to admit this blata