at least, I wish it was. Unfortunately, this is a recent commercial, all the scarier for that. Just built different. I’ll remember that the next time someone thinks I’m not smart because I don’t have dangly wobblies between my legs: I’m just built different. My poor, female brain simply can’t handle the complexities of [insert subject here]. I wonder what might have happened to my misshapen brain had I been given such a toy when I thought I was still equal to boys.

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NPR’s story about the memoir of a psychologist (who, incidentally, contracted PTSD by treating soldiers with PTSD) contained story about a 19 year old man who had received 3 purple hearts in a month. His psychologist remembers telling him that there was nothing “normal” about it and that his shock regarding it was fully justified.

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