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Whelmed Whelmed by Rachael Elliott
Dave Snell (He/Him)
The smarter you are the more likely you are are being thrown under the fucking bus. In were children? Nothing like never being to struggle with your mental health. I dunno every country from which data is available, sure if you can trust a person to keep you whether makes y’allI more lesstolikely in everyEven racial, ethnic, and age group, your or toes. Flatting isthat hard. I’m glad don’t or have do it anymore. if rents assaults, policefrom up youron street, people stealing your washing off to hit the skids to be honest. You did make every historical period: we have lower arrest weren’t soaring, they are still difficult. You are in a very long running the line. it into uni, then youwith actually chose but to way rates than men All for all crime categories Perhaps it’s because we still get paid less episode of but Big Brother no prizes, more drama. come when one’s higher education except shouldn’t be on than men doing work. Nothing of this here can affect mental health.is Ithe still can’t look prostitution at a post-it (which I’m going to go out a limb andforsay menthe aresame easier to flat with. biggest money-making scam the boomers a crime, sex work is work). Several peerlike feeling unappreciated to make you want note without flashbacks of a flatmate who used to vacuum once a Because we’re stupid. For example, I used to bribe my flatmates to managed since the housing crisis so… Jury’s reviewed studies over the last few decades to stay in bed all day. month, and then would put a note on the wall complaining that he pick me up from my video rental job (back during those times) with have shown wom*n outperform men they spent, they could’ve paid for it themselves out. was the only one who did any housework (he wasn’t). The flatthat mate porn. For the petrol in many of the key areas that make for out Maybe it’s because been taughtBut 10 who used to mosh in the lounge and put a hole through the wall is - but economics goes the window when we’ve dicks are involved. good leadership: self-awareness, kindness, different ways not to be raped but boys still Recent stats from the NZ Health survey another memory I have - at least that meant there was nothing to I digress. reported womennotes agedon.15-24 were self-control, humility, social skills, and haven’t been told not to rape us? That deep put passivethat aggressive experiencing depression at moral People will tellanxiety you thatand flatting is good because you getsensitivity. exposed to While men outperform us in double the rate of men the same age, and different worldviews. " I’m going to go out on a limb aggression, Māori youth are 1.5 times more likely to unprovoked have a diagnosis anxiety disorder than psychopathy, narcissism, and say men are easier to flat That can be good, of bad, or weird. non-Māori. Our trans, non-binary, gender greed, and the kinds of with. Because we’re stupid. " Machiavellian tendencies queer, and takatāpui whānau The flatmate who brought anare eel even back more from Ōpōtiki and kept it as a thatit Big create things like marginalised, so they’re deeper in the pet was hilarious, but aneven example of this. Feeding Ben pies in white collar crime, mishandling of a global down, some think(yeah, they’re entitled to hole. a little paddling pool and leaving it on the laundry floor to see if we While thoughts and prayers don’t domen anything I said it), I do pandemic and the need for the #metoo our smiles, our time, and our bodies, even would pick it up thinking it was a belt. feel for those renters out there at the moment. Please look out for So don’t try and tell me that there isn’t a movement. And yet they’re still inSpare charge. when we say no. each other. a couch for the occasional couch surfer. Cos being societally constructed, gender specific, And you still ask us why we need feminism. Up north in Whangārei was even more weird/stressful/entertaining. a renter is hard. Property managers are scummy. Rental companies Maybe we’re all to fucked because kyriarchal component to our mental health called Raumanga. On don’t care. If you are fortunate I used to live in a rough-ish area of Whangārei enough not beuprenting, andwe’re you Anyway, I digress. Why are wom*n more more likely to experience mental and crisis. The effect of gender-roles and the a street full of tinny houses (Warwick Crescent represent), it used to own your house, let’s not judge those who are doing it rough. likelywith to struggle with their mental andtoabuse than men, and negative experiences of out these be a weekly activity to sit thethroughout front of our house a beer and Missing a fewhealth avocados physical on toastviolence is not going get you a house. your life, often starting before you even than men? MaYBE iT’s ThEiR HoRMoNEs? trauma is directly linked to the development watch them get raided. I feel the shoes over the phone lines were realise is happening, is aparties, very large Are stolen wom*nproperty, more likelyTake to be anxious and of anxiety, depression, and a host of other a good what giveaway. Or ongoing break-ins, care. and specific risk factor for mental illness. depressed because we do all the emotional mental illnesses. Not to mention the fact that we’re usually labour or because men aren’t allowed to left literally holding the baby (or the sibling, have feelings? Either way you can thank the Maybe, until we sort that out, wom*n are or parent or grandparent). patriarchy, and the solution is feminism. going to struggle more with their mental health than men. Despite being the gold fucking standard of Perhaps we’re anxious and depressed humanity, wom*n (yes, all wom*n, inclusive) because we’ve been sexualised since we If you want to help? Call out your friend’s 16 N.11 / V. 55
