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Do you listen to music when you write? It seems that the majority of writers do. But the science behind you blasting Metallica while writing (as Stephen King used to do) is starting to say maybe you shouldn’t.

With over 1,000 Americans dying every day of Covid, the president of the United States refusing to concede an election he lost, and the West Coast continuing to burn, there is no shortage of pressing issues to be outraged over. That’s why I find it so strange that conservatives have focused their energy and ire on perhaps the most innocuous event of the year: a male celebrity in a dress.

Another thing that is always on my mind is the fact that, since I moved a lot, I’ve been terrible at keeping in touch with some of my friends. In fact, most of my friendships died because I never took the time to call people or reach out in any way. I’m fully guilty of this; even calling my family is a struggle, but that’s just the way I am. It takes effort to be sociable.

But Vogue didn’t put Styles in a gown on their cover because of some nefarious agenda to emasculate American men; they did it because it’s hot. Some of the country’s most iconic sex symbols are known for their gender-bending fashion — think David Bowie, Prince, or Grace Jones. Sometimes we just want to see sexy people in beautiful clothes.

Cabbage has never been the sexiest of vegetables, but damn — is it useful, versatile, and delicious. It’s something I want in my fridge at all times throughout fall and winter, not only because it keeps for a long time (no quick-thinking required), but because, depending on how you cook it, it can be rich and luxurious (total cold-weather comfort), or fresh and bright (a perfect change of pace).

Musician Harry Styles appears on Vogue’s December cover wearing a Gucci gown — the first man to ever be featured solo on the front of the iconic fashion publication. Styles told Vogue, “you can never be overdressed” and celebrated how gender norms are changing around clothing: “What’s really exciting is that all of these lines are just kind of crumbling away… anytime you’re putting barriers up in your own life, you’re just limiting yourself.”

Podcaster Ben Shapiro also saw the dress as an attack on men, calling the cover a “referendum on masculinity” and an attempt by the left to “feminize men.” Pundit Erick Erickson even linked the image to incoming president Joe Biden: “Biden gets elected by promising a return to normal,” he tweeted. “Then the left goes all in on men in dresses.”

“One of the things I do when I am starting a movie, when I’m writing a movie or when I have an idea for a film; is, I go through my record collection and just start playing songs, trying to find the personality of the movie, find the spirit of the movie. Then ‘boom’, eventually I’ll hit one, two or three songs or one song in particular, oh this will be a great opening credit song.” — Quentin Tarantino

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ents. We’ve all seen comments like this before. They don’t explain anything but focus on what the code is doing (e.g. a comment like “looping over the products” when there is a foreach loop). Whenever you’re in that situation, don’t write a comment that focuses on what the code is doing. Focus on the why of this code instead.

What many see as stylish fun, though, members of the right view as a feminist conspiracy to weaken men. In response to Styles’ cover, conservative author Candace Owens claimed that the “steady feminization” of American men was part of a plot to bring back Marxism, tweeting that we need to “bring back manly men.”

It takes practice for habitual worriers to recognize when their mind has gotten stuck in a whirlpool of unhelpful words or self-talk. (Here again, mindfulness techniques can help.) But with time and training, people can escape from that whirlpool or avoid it in the first place. By activating different areas of the brain, pleasant mental imagery seems to help them do that.

And if conservatives are upset over Styles’ gorgeous gown, they’re really not going to like one of the newest trends on TikTok: young women dressing their boyfriends up in maid costumes. This new generation of women aren’t just open to boundary-breaking men, they’re actively seeking them out. They want men in skirts, men in makeup — they want men secure enough to have fun with their look rather than the anxious masculinity of gym selfies and frat bros.

“Tasks that involve language processing or decision making need your attentional focus, and when you try to do two such tasks at the same time, you end up switching your attention back and forth.”

Lastly, when making new friends and finding someone who’s a good listener, I make it all about me. Even if I’m an introvert, I tend to talk too much, overshare, and burden the other person with my problems. Making friends is challenging at any age, and sometimes I feel like I’ve been so out of practice that I don’t even know how to behave anymore.

And men are picking up on that desire: In fact, there are so many straight young men donning nail polish and skirts online to get female attention that there’s been a corresponding backlash of videos explaining that men in makeup can be just as misogynist as men in khakis.