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bonniemuffin on March 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly

I'm glad society no longer expects me to loaf about with a smelling-bottle dabbling in Italian. The elegant female can kiss my ass. I'd rather be ferociously competent.

dclowd9901 on March 11, 2016 | [–]

I read it less as "leave women to their vices," and more as "leave people to their vices," but maybe I'm giving credit where it isn't due.

coldtea on March 11, 2016 | [–]

>I'd rather be ferociously competent.

And instead of improving the men too, we all regress to competitive monkeys...

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