#less competition

[niocel]

mari you are a monster and I fucking love you.

[certaincollections]

Selling a House at or Before Christmas | We Buy Property

10 Best-Kept Secrets for Selling a House near Christmas Time. While putting your property up for sale may sound stressful, it does have its upsides.

Why Sell My House at Christmas Time?

The chances are that you can’t wait until peak season to sell your home. You want it off the market, and you want it sooner than later. Thankfully, the time around the holiday season has its moments when it comes to selling a house:

(1) House buyers are often more serious during Christmas time. For one, there are fewer “window shoppers” out there. In other words, the house buyers who are interested in your home during the holiday season are highly likely to buy it.

(2) You have less competition: most sellers aren’t willing to put their houses for sale during this period, leaving most house buyers at your disposal.

[certaincollections]

Selling a House at or Before Christmas | We Buy Property

10 Best-Kept Secrets for Selling a House near Christmas Time. While putting your property up for sale may sound stressful, it does have its upsides.

Why Sell My House at Christmas Time?

The chances are that you can’t wait until peak season to sell your home. You want it off the market, and you want it sooner than later. Thankfully, the time around the holiday season has its moments when it comes to selling a house:

(1) House buyers are often more serious during Christmas time. For one, there are fewer “window shoppers” out there. In other words, the house buyers who are interested in your home during the holiday season are highly likely to buy it.

(2) You have less competition: most sellers aren’t willing to put their houses for sale during this period, leaving most house buyers at your disposal.

Even still, selling a house near Christmas period can prove to be a daunting task. For starters, most house buyers, especially first-timers, can think that you’re desperate. Oftentimes that means they’ll try every trick on the book to negotiate the price down.

[nickagallegos1]

Docs Benefit From More Camaraderie, Less Competition

(MedPage Today) -- Real-life friends in the hospital help combat physician loneliness Docs Benefit From More Camaraderie, Less Competition

[dirtyjazminrice]

I scheduled 2 phone interviews for 11 am tomorrow and now I'm panicking

[so-who-took-ebot]

I love watching twitch live streams in different languages.

Sometimes, I get headaches, if I don’t understand them at all, but the fact that I can watch Russian, French, and Dutch live streams as well as English, and I can connect with the intent and emotions that they feel, even though I don’t understand their words... that’s pretty beautiful.

[cbravo5-blog]

Some suggested solutions for stopping/alleviating slut shaming (which in turn will hopefully have an effect on rape culture) are:

1. Instead of teaching girls and women not to dress a certain way in order to avoid negative sexual attention, boys and men should be taught not to teach females as sexual objects. This is an idea that goes back to ancient times, but it does not mean that it has to continue into the future. Similar to the idea that women are property is outdated, so must the idea that a woman’s value is in her purity and sexual repression. If men are taught that women are worth more than their physical aspects, it may create change with the prevalence of rape culture. This core belief that women are objects instead of people is what allows men to treat women in whatever way they please. If they are taught at a young age to believe otherwise, there would not be such a widespread dislike for females to be proud of their bodies.

2. At the same time, in order to stop the use of slut shaming by men to oppress women, women must stop slut shaming each other. By using the label of slut to oppress other women, it only reinforces the idea that it is acceptable for men to do the same. Women use slut shaming as a way of competing with one another, but this action only prevents women as a whole from advancing. If women were to empower one another instead of oppressing others based on race and class, it would be easier to create change with males. This is a core idea that would take time to really address.

3. Additionally, institutions must stop limiting how females are allowed to dress because it is deemed “inappropriate.” Often times schools especially are guilty of saying that females cannot dress a certain way because it is “distracting” to their male classmates or instructors. Instead of expecting men to be mature enough to not objectify women, those females are expected to fit certain regulations. This only works to reinforce a cycle of sexual oppression and misogyny. A woman can display her body for fear that men will not be able to control themselves. This idea is what fuels a society that supports rape culture. Women should be able to wear what they please without fear that they will be attacked. This begins with having more leniency in clothing at a younger age.

[jassdoe-blog]

It occurred to him, long after it should have, that he wasn't the only person here who had problems and felt like an outsider. Alice wasn't just the competition, someone whose only purpose in life was to succeed and by doing so subtract from his happiness. She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and history and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was.

Lev Grossman, The Magicians.