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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

People who clip their nails on the subway…nothing more to say…

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What we’re doing to the planet. We’re literally destroying our climate and causing mass extinction. It’s a problem we know how to solve, but we refuse to. Because we prefer our lifestyles to the health of the planet. It truly, truly disgusts me. I’m disgusted with our culture and I’m disgusted with myself fir being part of it.

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

I’m still angry about when my 57-year-old ex-husband said “You’re great! You have so much to offer. You should be able to find a man as successful and financially secure as me.” What he fails to recognize, that like HIM, men my age who are successful, financially secure, in good shape, and good looking, DATE WOMEN MUCH YOUNGER—women who are just 5 years older than his son! These men don’t want to date women that remind of the wife they just left. Because they CAN! Why do these young women want to date these old men who snore, are losing their hair, and need viagra??

It also pisses me off that he thinks I NEED a man. Arggghh! 🤬

Okay—I’m done now. 😬

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

Bare feet, when people cut their nails in public, no leg room in Broadway theatres, when people litter (esp when they don't pick up their dog's poop), the sound of people kissing, when people lick their finger to turn a page, when people don't wash their hands after they use the restroom, etc. Wow, I have a lot of petty disgusts LOL.

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

Oh man, while I would like to pick something that makes me seem less petty/judgmental/elitist...my first thought is things that remind me of my suburban Florida hometown. Sprawling, identical stucco houses with barely any yards and shabby chic decor inside, people who dress in the standard uniform of cargo shorts/flip flops/boat shoes/t shirts (and seem to look down on those who don't??), Panera as the best local "cafe" option and Chik-fil-a worship, no cultural venues. While I moved to a major Florida city, I'm still very close to where they filmed Edward Scissorhands to give you an idea lol. I once received a comment that my look that day seemed very "central Florida" and I took that as one of the most offensive things ever said to me! I felt very suppressed growing up there and was very much ~a loser~ (never did I feel like I could fit in if I wanted to, with my roman nose and excessive hair in Baptist country). There was a scene in Hacks where Jean Smart's character calls out her young protege's elitist overvaluing of the opinions of audiences based in LA and New York as opposed to the midwest as a sign that she is still holding on to not being invited to the cool kids lunch table and I felt very called out haha.

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

People who don't clean/pick up after themselves, etc. I know this sounds trite and foolish in light of the other posts; but, please hear me out.

Where I live, people are constantly not picking up after themselves, their children and/or their pets. Aside from being unsightly and disgusting, consider the following:

Adults who don't clean up after their young children (i.e. food/trash), themselves or their pets; are in turn contributing to the spread in disease. Does anyone really think about what has been on the walkways before running around in bare feet, track germs into their homes.

Also, when trash is thrown or left on the ground, because we're just too lazy to pick it up, does anyone think about whether or not said trash is able to decompose in a green way?

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

Mark Zuckerberg. I went to college with him and my anecdotal observation is that he is definitely on the spectrum, as am I. In addition to all the harm he’s brought on our democracy, other countries’ institutions, teens’ body image, etc., I hate that he is reinforcing notions of autistic people as icy, amoral, insensitive robots. In reality, the vast majority of us are practically crushed by the weight of our empathy and our deep sadness at the consequences of our innumerable broken systems. He had so much privilege and brainpower and he used it to wreck the world, disgust barely begins to cover it.

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

The recent event where a woman was raped on a PA train with a car full of bystanders who did nothing to stop the assault and just filmed it with their phones, as if that would help deliver justice AFTER THE FACT, instead of saving her BEFORE she was raped, disgusts me so much, it makes me sick to my stomach. The idea that people won't help other people who are visibly in so much pain or danger is unfathomable to me. I get that sometimes you don't know what's going on behind the scenes in someone's life, but in broad daylight like this horrible train event, is utterly disgusting. I'm having a hard time not thinking about it.

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Ranch dressing. I can be around it but eating it? No thanks! I'm upset when people dip perfectly good wings or vegetables into that stuff.

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