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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted terry crews

      So I’m a guy, and I have a dad, and three older brothers, and yet I think it would be personally accurate for me to say that I didn’t personally encounter a truly nourishing model of masculinity until I was in my 20s. Looking back, “malnourished” is not an inaccurate descriptionhttps://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1101607874109759488 …

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      terry crewsVerified account @terrycrews
      I apologize to anyone who was hurt by my “severely malnourished” tweet. It was in response to someone who said kids wouldn’t “starve”. It was poorly worded so I deleted it.
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    2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      I think we can frame this in terms of representation. Is representation important? Yes, right? It’s powerful to see a version of who you want to be and become. To be deprived of that is a sort of malnourishment. One can thrive despite it, but its absence is extremely striking

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    3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      IMO, the unfortunate thing is that people read “malnourished” to imply failure or neglect on the part of the caregiver. Single moms are *heroes*!! And yet, kids surely benefit from seeing someone in the role they will one day inhabit. Gay & trans kids need older role models too

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    4. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      Representation matters, right? It’s great for young girls to see women in all sorts of roles- to meet a pilot, a scientist, a congresswoman, etc. They can also be inspired by men, sure but there’s a difference. We know this; that’s why we make such a big deal about representationpic.twitter.com/w0GBrC23Bq

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    5. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      Similarly - a boy can receive all the love & support in the world from his single mom, and that’s absolutely beautiful- and, he will be nourished by meeting a man who demonstrates by eg what it means to be a good man. In the absence of such men, he will learn from his peerspic.twitter.com/1gR5W2yDoY

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    6. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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      Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

      Galaxy-brain take: sometimes dads and brothers *contribute* to the psychological and emotional malnourishment of boys. The whole species is malnourished, c’mon. Most of Earth needs therapyhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044880239158022144?s=21 …

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      The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Mar 2019
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      It needs random culling by 50% not therapy.pic.twitter.com/ysu747MzJT

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        2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 2 Mar 2019
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          😩

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        3. On high alert‏ @Spiesbegone 3 Mar 2019
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          Is a randomized cull possible tho? Once it begins, surely 2-order effects & feedback loops would escalate cull into a Death Note style struggle for control b/w the major powers....hmm, god (nature till a while ago mayb) is looking like a pretty good synonym for 'randomized cull'.

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