Tag: bullying
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Beauty and the Beast
I’ve written several essays about beauty over the years, be they definitional or in comparison with ugliness[i], but I have to admit that I hadn’t considered whether ethics might sometimes be involved with its manifestation, its production. In my youthful naïveté, I suppose I thought of beauty as an inherent quality -something that was an…
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Critical Thinking and Bullying
A few weeks ago, a young woman came in to see me to have her first Pap smear. While I was taking a routine sexual history, she admitted she had recently been bullied online. I’m not even sure how the topic came up, but she didn’t seem very upset, so I asked her about it. “The guy was a real…
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