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		<title>Comment on Misadventures in Love: First Date by Audry Feltham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Audry Feltham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ginger produces a hot, fragrant kitchen spice.[5] Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste. They are often pickled in vinegar or sherry as a snack or just cooked as an ingredient in many dishes. They can also be steeped in boiling water to make ginger tea, to which honey is often added; sliced orange or lemon fruit may also be added. Ginger can also be made into candy, or ginger wine which has been made commercially since 1740..

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ginger produces a hot, fragrant kitchen spice.[5] Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste. They are often pickled in vinegar or sherry as a snack or just cooked as an ingredient in many dishes. They can also be steeped in boiling water to make ginger tea, to which honey is often added; sliced orange or lemon fruit may also be added. Ginger can also be made into candy, or ginger wine which has been made commercially since 1740..</p>
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		<title>Comment on Stop If You Can by Jennifer M. Hartsock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer M. Hartsock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The authors who have changed society (who have really changed it) seemed to know they would. Gertrude Stein is a great example.

I&#039;m young and silly and adventurous, so I believe in my story and know society needs it.

Whether or not you make money can&#039;t be the underlying reason for writing. I think most of us know this. But changing things, yeah, we can believe that can happen.

Great post! Looking forward to reading more.
Jennifer</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The authors who have changed society (who have really changed it) seemed to know they would. Gertrude Stein is a great example.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m young and silly and adventurous, so I believe in my story and know society needs it.</p>
<p>Whether or not you make money can&#8217;t be the underlying reason for writing. I think most of us know this. But changing things, yeah, we can believe that can happen.</p>
<p>Great post! Looking forward to reading more.<br />
Jennifer</p>
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		<title>Comment on Heroes &#8212; Tall, Dark, and Brooding by Some dude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Some dude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the &quot;brooding&quot; personality type. You seem to be crossing the definition of &quot;pretentious&quot; with &quot;brooding&quot;. 

Pretentious: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

Brooding: preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts
The behavior you seem to be referring to repeatedly is someone&#039;s preference to be a loner and a general perception of being too good to participate in activities shared by &quot;normies&quot; based on a feeling of superiority. The person you describe doesn&#039;t participate because he wants those around him to know and observe that he is above such base activities. All of these behaviors seem much more in line with someone who is attempting to show others that he is better than them and that he &quot;gets&quot; something they don&#039;t. Again, all in line with being pretentious. 

A brooding person however is someone with an inability to find enjoyment or purpose is most “pleasant” activities. Being brooding means that whether you like it or not your mind is typically stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts and interpretations of events around you. Despite how hard a truly brooding person may try to be happy there is usually not a lot that can be done to change their actual feelings. Brooding feelings are often very similar to depression and someone who has a brooding personality may well suffer from “dysthymia”.

Dysthymia is basically a long term low grade depression that lasts anywhere from a few years to a lifetime. As someone who suffers from this (and is frequently described as brooding) I can tell you that internal feelings and reactions are largely out of your control. It can be best described as a negative conscience of sorts. An incessant little voice that tells you why every person isn’t who they seem to be, why every situation will end poorly, why you’ll never measure up to anything in life… and if you do, what’s the point? At the end of the day we all end up in the ground and all the voice wants is for you to be left alone until you get there. This is not something a brooding person can control and as someone who has struggled with this my entire life I find the idea of someone getting a “brood job” rather asinine. It’s a constant and draining struggle for one to pretend that they’re not in a foul or somber mood the majority of their day, especially when greeted with happy faces at every turn. It’s like making your brain try to cope with two realities (a happy and sad one) and your brain already “knows” that the sad one is the true reality despite your attempts to convince it otherwise. You legitimately have these feelings or you do not.

The mistake that seems to be made is that pretentious people will exhibit brooding behavior because it shows those around them that they are different than the norm. They exhibit broody behavior as a means to an end. The less interested and aloof they seem… the cooler they must be. However for a brooding person the negative feelings, isolation and constant inner turmoil are the ends… and the means are completely out of their control. The means happen and thus cause their end, all independently of those feeling them. If you just want to play James Dean then you’re pretentious… if you have a fundamental inability to view the world in anything other than a bleak grey then you’re probably brooding.

And for a final note… being a “hunk” is probably the single most irrelevant factor in any of this. If you’re good looking then you’re good looking… if you’re not then you’re not. Neither of these factors play in to one’s ability to feign “brooding” to seem cooler than they are. Nor does it factor in to one’s ability to deal with relentless internal negativity. And assigning traits like “they never play sports or video games” makes this seem more like a nerd’s rallying cry that the people in question don’t “get it” than anything of value or merit. As a brooding person I don’t enjoy team based activities. It is hard for me to boost team moral or find a feeling of unity in these activities. I do however thoroughly enjoy Muay Thai kickboxing as it is an individualized sport. And despite being, as you put it, “quiet, prominent-cheekbones, scowly lips, pale to the point of translucence, half-mast eyes that flash and glint, but never twinkle; the brooding hunk” I spent far more time in high school “leveling up” than I did with any women. Trust me, if I could swap the dark cloud that follows me for an “easy smile and the inability to shut up” I happily would. The fact that our culture finds my negativity and discontent romantic and attractive to women is of little comfort. People want to read about tortured heroes… not to be tortured people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the &#8220;brooding&#8221; personality type. You seem to be crossing the definition of &#8220;pretentious&#8221; with &#8220;brooding&#8221;. </p>
<p>Pretentious: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.</p>
<p>Brooding: preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts<br />
The behavior you seem to be referring to repeatedly is someone&#8217;s preference to be a loner and a general perception of being too good to participate in activities shared by &#8220;normies&#8221; based on a feeling of superiority. The person you describe doesn&#8217;t participate because he wants those around him to know and observe that he is above such base activities. All of these behaviors seem much more in line with someone who is attempting to show others that he is better than them and that he &#8220;gets&#8221; something they don&#8217;t. Again, all in line with being pretentious. </p>
<p>A brooding person however is someone with an inability to find enjoyment or purpose is most “pleasant” activities. Being brooding means that whether you like it or not your mind is typically stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts and interpretations of events around you. Despite how hard a truly brooding person may try to be happy there is usually not a lot that can be done to change their actual feelings. Brooding feelings are often very similar to depression and someone who has a brooding personality may well suffer from “dysthymia”.</p>
<p>Dysthymia is basically a long term low grade depression that lasts anywhere from a few years to a lifetime. As someone who suffers from this (and is frequently described as brooding) I can tell you that internal feelings and reactions are largely out of your control. It can be best described as a negative conscience of sorts. An incessant little voice that tells you why every person isn’t who they seem to be, why every situation will end poorly, why you’ll never measure up to anything in life… and if you do, what’s the point? At the end of the day we all end up in the ground and all the voice wants is for you to be left alone until you get there. This is not something a brooding person can control and as someone who has struggled with this my entire life I find the idea of someone getting a “brood job” rather asinine. It’s a constant and draining struggle for one to pretend that they’re not in a foul or somber mood the majority of their day, especially when greeted with happy faces at every turn. It’s like making your brain try to cope with two realities (a happy and sad one) and your brain already “knows” that the sad one is the true reality despite your attempts to convince it otherwise. You legitimately have these feelings or you do not.</p>
<p>The mistake that seems to be made is that pretentious people will exhibit brooding behavior because it shows those around them that they are different than the norm. They exhibit broody behavior as a means to an end. The less interested and aloof they seem… the cooler they must be. However for a brooding person the negative feelings, isolation and constant inner turmoil are the ends… and the means are completely out of their control. The means happen and thus cause their end, all independently of those feeling them. If you just want to play James Dean then you’re pretentious… if you have a fundamental inability to view the world in anything other than a bleak grey then you’re probably brooding.</p>
<p>And for a final note… being a “hunk” is probably the single most irrelevant factor in any of this. If you’re good looking then you’re good looking… if you’re not then you’re not. Neither of these factors play in to one’s ability to feign “brooding” to seem cooler than they are. Nor does it factor in to one’s ability to deal with relentless internal negativity. And assigning traits like “they never play sports or video games” makes this seem more like a nerd’s rallying cry that the people in question don’t “get it” than anything of value or merit. As a brooding person I don’t enjoy team based activities. It is hard for me to boost team moral or find a feeling of unity in these activities. I do however thoroughly enjoy Muay Thai kickboxing as it is an individualized sport. And despite being, as you put it, “quiet, prominent-cheekbones, scowly lips, pale to the point of translucence, half-mast eyes that flash and glint, but never twinkle; the brooding hunk” I spent far more time in high school “leveling up” than I did with any women. Trust me, if I could swap the dark cloud that follows me for an “easy smile and the inability to shut up” I happily would. The fact that our culture finds my negativity and discontent romantic and attractive to women is of little comfort. People want to read about tortured heroes… not to be tortured people.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Heroes, Hulkamania, and Sandwiches by Joanna</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love these aritlces. How many words can a wordsmith smith?</description>
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		<title>Comment on Stop If You Can: Counterpoint by We Heart YA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Stop If You Can by Stop If You Can: Counterpoint &#124;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stop If You Can: Counterpoint &#124;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Misadventures in Love: Tips for Teenage Romance. by Atightintroductionofthomassabo</title>
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		<title>Comment on Stop If You Can by tamathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do not stop. The day this post went up my 13 year old son spent the entire day reading.  It was the first time this had ever happened. Learning to read was difficult for him. I&#039;ve worried that he would never learn to enjoy it, never experience getting lost in a book. Our house is full of books.  I&#039;ve offered them to him, tried to entice him into trying them, left the ones I thought he&#039;d like lying on his bed or out on the coffee table. He never took the bait. 
But wandering through the library he picked a book, the first in a series.  He slogged his way through an hour of reading at a time.  The day this post went up, he finished.  Then he asked if he could start the second book in the series.  He asked my permission to read! Once I generously granted him permission to read for longer than an hour, he got started.  He read all day.  The way I did as a kid, the way I still do if given the chance.  He got lost in a book!  I couldn&#039;t stop smiling.
In the days since, I find him on the front step - reading.  In the tree in the backyard - reading.  Bothering his brother by having the light on at night so he can read. 
He walked through the library and there were thousands of books he passed by, but he found the one he needed. I&#039;m so grateful it was there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not stop. The day this post went up my 13 year old son spent the entire day reading.  It was the first time this had ever happened. Learning to read was difficult for him. I&#8217;ve worried that he would never learn to enjoy it, never experience getting lost in a book. Our house is full of books.  I&#8217;ve offered them to him, tried to entice him into trying them, left the ones I thought he&#8217;d like lying on his bed or out on the coffee table. He never took the bait.<br />
But wandering through the library he picked a book, the first in a series.  He slogged his way through an hour of reading at a time.  The day this post went up, he finished.  Then he asked if he could start the second book in the series.  He asked my permission to read! Once I generously granted him permission to read for longer than an hour, he got started.  He read all day.  The way I did as a kid, the way I still do if given the chance.  He got lost in a book!  I couldn&#8217;t stop smiling.<br />
In the days since, I find him on the front step &#8211; reading.  In the tree in the backyard &#8211; reading.  Bothering his brother by having the light on at night so he can read.<br />
He walked through the library and there were thousands of books he passed by, but he found the one he needed. I&#8217;m so grateful it was there.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Stop If You Can by We Heart YA</title>
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		<dc:creator>We Heart YA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s a pretty big &quot;if,&quot; eh. Bigger than any of us.</description>
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		<dc:creator>We Heart YA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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