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Michelle Teheux
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How You Drink Your Coffee Shows Who You Are

Americans really know how to ruin a good cup of coffee — If you asked me to identify whether someone was European or American and the only clue you gave me was watching them drink coffee, I’d be pretty accurate. So would you. Americans are people who think nothing of sitting in their cars and waiting in line at a coffee shop…

Life

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How You Drink Your Coffee Shows Who You Are
How You Drink Your Coffee Shows Who You Are
Life

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ILLUMINATION

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Sudden Vasectomy Rush Reveals Ugly Side to (Some) Men

Ask yourself this: What was stopping them before? — At first, I thought the news that men are lining up for vasectomies was a good sign. And then I realized the truth. These men could have gotten a vasectomy at any time, but they did not see a need until Roe was overturned. Let’s break this down. As I’ve written before, women already…

Relationships

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Sudden Vasectomy Rush Reveals Ugly Side to (Some) Men
Sudden Vasectomy Rush Reveals Ugly Side to (Some) Men
Relationships

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The Pub

·1 day ago

Motherfucker’s Day Has Come

It’s not just for Quentin Tarantino movies anymore — When I was growing up, “fuck” was as bad as it got, and nobody I knew said it very often. The embellished form of it, “motherfucker,” was absolutely out of the question. Saying that word damned you. There was no coming back from that. It was the atomic bomb of…

Curse Words

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Motherfucker’s Day Has Come
Motherfucker’s Day Has Come
Curse Words

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The Narrative Arc

·1 day ago

This One’s for All the Weird Kids Who Faked Being Normal

As a kid, I designed a whole strategy in my secret writing studio — If my parents checked, no light would show under my bedroom door as I worked late into the night. They’d believe I was asleep. But really, I was working in my secret writing studio. Actually, it was just a cleared spot on the floor of my closet with a table…

The Narrative Arc

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This One’s for All the Weird Kids Who Faked Being Normal
This One’s for All the Weird Kids Who Faked Being Normal
The Narrative Arc

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Bitchy

·4 days ago

Why Did You Just Call Those Grown Men ‘Boys’?

Or those women ‘girls’? — My wealthy friend, Berlin, is having some work done on her house, and she very kindly offered to buy the workers — all men — some lunch. “I have to let you go. I need to go get these boys some lunch,” she told me. “Why did you call them…

Sexism

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Why Did You Just Call Those Grown Men ‘Boys’?
Why Did You Just Call Those Grown Men ‘Boys’?
Sexism

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Minds Without Borders

·5 days ago

Exactly Which Circle of Hell Was High School P.E. Designed For?

Following up on ‘This Is For All the Kids Who Sucked at Sports’ — It turns out a lot of us developed a hatred of organized sports from being tortured and bullied during our mandatory P.E. classes. My previous piece, This is For All the Kids Who Sucked at Sports, has racked up 64 comments and counting in one day. Wow. This resonated with…

Physical Education

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Exactly Which Circle of Hell Was High School P.E. Designed For?
Exactly Which Circle of Hell Was High School P.E. Designed For?
Physical Education

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The Narrative Arc

·6 days ago

This Is For All the Kids Who Sucked at Sports

Humiliation on the ball field sticks with you for a long, long time — My inability to throw, catch or run well doesn’t affect my life one bit right now, but it pretty much ruined my childhood. P.E. was an exercise in humiliation every day. I grew up in farm country, and it took several towns to scrape up enough kids to form a school. There were only thirty-nine people in my…

Memoir

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This Is For All the Kids Who Sucked at Sports
This Is For All the Kids Who Sucked at Sports
Memoir

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Minds Without Borders

·Sep 19

How The 30-Second Rule Is Changing Culture

And not for the better — I write and my husband records music, and we’ve noticed the same trend is ruining both spheres: the increasingly frantic need to hook your audience immediately. Here on Medium, if readers click off after less than 30 seconds, the writer is penalized. On Spotify, if someone listens for less than…

Culture

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How The 30-Second Rule Is Changing Culture
How The 30-Second Rule Is Changing Culture
Culture

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Minds Without Borders

·Sep 18

The Best Things In Life Are Never Marketed

You’re more than a target market, you know — What did you do last weekend? What made you decide to go where you went or spend what you spent? Was it a good weekend, with the right mix of relaxation and fun? My husband and I had some friends over for drinks Saturday night, and on Sunday we visited…

Culture

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The Best Things In Life Are Never Marketed
The Best Things In Life Are Never Marketed
Culture

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Sep 16

Wretched Philanthropy

I’m not impressed by greedy rich people amassing dirty fortunes and then making a big show of philanthropy — Crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried claimed he wanted to earn a fortune just so he could give it away, as detailed by the Wall Street Journal. How nice, Sam! Now his billions are gone and he’s in a federal jail facing fraud-related charges. The blog 80,000 Hours celebrated Bankman-Fried as a…

Philanthropy

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Wretched Philanthropy
Wretched Philanthropy
Philanthropy

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Michelle Teheux

Michelle Teheux

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Lover of literature. Editor of Minds Without Borders. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact at michelleteheux@gmail.com.

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