My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The tendency to withdraw into myself.
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Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Feeling and being unfocused.
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That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.
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