Rasmenia Massoud's Blog, page 5

The Trouble With Living Things

I was never allowed to have a cat. Except for one brief moment, when I was five years old. My mother and her boyfriend rented a farm house where we did not farm anything. We had a couple of dogs. One...



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People Are Full of Shit, So Don’t Let Facebook Bring You Down

I keep seeing these articles all over the place. You’ve probably seen them, too. Using various combinations of words and pictures, they all say the same thing: Facebook is making people feel...



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When it Comes to Marriage, Love Beats Tradition

I’ve been getting invited to more weddings lately. About a year ago, France legalized same-sex marriage. They didn’t stop there – gay and lesbian couples now have the right to adopt...



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The Dissociative Disorder of Pen Names

“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don’t have ordinarily.” ―...



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Hey, Mourning Famous People is Totally Okay

Somewhere in 1986, there’s a younger version of me. A version of me with skinny legs, knobby knees and no realistic sense of the future or adulthood. That version of me sits in her room,...



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I Got Nerdy & Ended Up With a Ridiculous Comic

I like to get my nerd on. One of the really cool things about the internet – aside from funny animal .gifs on Buzzfeed – is the bottomless pit of nerdery. This year, I’ve spent...



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Self-Preservation Can Look the Same as Being a Dick. But It Isn’t.

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” – Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk...



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Fluent in Fromage

After exchanging emails, letters and phone calls for 8 months with a French guy I’d met online, it was time to go to Paris to meet him face-to-face; time to look one another in the eye and...



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Boobs Are Cool. Bras Are Dumb.

Earlier this year, a French doctor announced that women are better off without bras. Now, I know some women are quite fond of their bras, or feel the need for a bra. Cool. Keep on rockin’ the...



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Expatriate, Not Ex-Patriot

When my dog was a tiny puppy, she was cute, but hyperactive. She barked a lot and played with her poop. She peed every time she met someone new. She was loveable, but a handful. An adorable, stinky...



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