Gatekeeping Your Brand

In all art forms, whether it be writing, music, architecture, fashion or what have you, there are usually more well-known artists or larger companies that will steal the ideas of less known, yet more creative artists and companies. The larger artists and companies don't have the creativity or talent as the smaller, but they have a bigger audience, more money, more connections, or a more marketable look or sound. This draws in an audience or customer base, and the original creator of the work is never known, or becomes known long after the bigger name cashes in on their ideas and work.

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How to Get Out of Competition Mode

Competition is necessary for the workforce, business, and sports. But let's be honest: it's a survival mechanism. It's what we do when we feel like something is scarce or at stake. For example, animals must compete for food because it's not a guarantee that they will eat every day. But for most humans, it is. We can fill our refrigerators, stop by restaurants, and eat all day long if we wanted to. This is why we don't compete for food. It's abundant for us, so there's no need to compete.

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True Sisterhood Starts Here...

The questions above are a mini quiz to help you get a clear idea of your true perspective of sisterhood. We often speak well of the idea of sisterhood. Many of us would like to have a stronger connection with the women around us, including women that we never met before, but is this a realistic desire? Is it possible that we can build a strong enough relationship with other women where we can have each other's back the same way men do?

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The Truth About Decentering Men

If you haven't heard about the decentering men movement, this is a movement where women are seeking to remove men from being high priorities in their lives. Some even claim they do not want to be with men at all, and some only want men for sexual or financial purposes, but not for love and marriage. Women are, and have been for quite some time, dissatisfied with their experiences with men. We all know what it feels like to have a man in our life that we give our all to and he let us down in some way. That is something that can make a lasting impression on a woman forever, especially if she is having the same types of experiences with other men.

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Stolen Female Philosophies

I recently made a post in a philosophy group on Facebook. It was my first time posting in the group and I was awaiting the admin to approve the post. In the post, I shared my take on how I believe feminism limits women's intellect. I said there are so few female philosophers because once women discover feminism, it's as philosophical as we're willing to go, because if we learn anything afterwards that conflicts with feminism, we will dismiss it. I also shared my own experience on how I became a feminist as a teen, but in my twenties, there were things that I learned but couldn't accept because it didn't pass the feminism litmus test. 

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Educated and Single?

For the past few years, there has been a narrative circulating on social media that single men are not looking to be with educated women for serious relationships or marriage. It's hard to tell if this is a social media talking point or if this is a genuine sentiment that single men have, but now that women have the right to advance themselves in the same ways that men do, including career and education, it's safe to say that men who prefer uneducated women are behind the times. 

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