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The much-anticipated release of the newest season of “The Bachelorette,” starring influencer Taylor Frankie Paul, was recently canceled. The reason was a leaked video showing Paul putting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, into a headlock during a domestic fight and throwing a metal chair at him that hit her daughter instead. The entire altercation was not
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I’ve never used ChatGPT. Nor have I used Claude, Grok, or Gemini. At least, I don’t think I have. Large language models, artificial intelligence, and technologies that use them are spreading so fast that it’s impossible for me to say with certainty that I’ve stayed away from them. But I’m doing my darnedest. The downsides
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When I was about seven years old, I begged my parents to let me watch “Hannah Montana,” a favorite among some of my friends. My parents held their firmly negative stance despite my pleas. At a friend’s birthday party, though, the TV was turned on as background noise, and “Hannah Montana” happened to be on
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Sheryl Sandberg has a thing or two to say about tradwives. The vocal feminist and honorary grandmother of the professional girlboss movement issued a stern warning about this movement in an interview with People Magazine last week. “The message that is going out is that in order to be a good wife or a good mother, you
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When I was in middle school, I competed in a summer reading contest with a prize for those who read the most books, writing a paragraph about each as proof of readership. Not wanting to spend the summer reading short works of fluff in order to get as many books as possible under my belt,
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Dear Gen Z Female Teens, I’m just two chapters into my advance review copy of Freya India’s forthcoming book, “Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything,” and am already so saddened by what I’ve discovered that I decided to write you. Before sharing what I’ve learned from “Girls®,” you should know that my five
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