Tag: sexism

• Celebrating Too Much, Censors, and Living Out of Your Car – Thoughts from June 1, 2024

  

  June 1, 2024 Well, June is finally here. It’s not only the time of gloomy weather, but it’s also the time of Patti and Brian’s anniversary. June 14 is less than two weeks away. We didn’t have a vacation set for this time of year, so I decided to take an extra day off work.…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 1, 2025

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  2024, Aldi, autobiography, before VCRs, boycotting shows, Brian, censors, chocolate lasagna, Christian fundamentalists, commercials, dessert, gaining weight, going out, June gloom, living out of the car, mini vacation, network executives, Norman Lear, Olive Garden, Patti, Patti and Brian’s Anniversary, racism, real people, religion ruins everything, retired, retirement payment, sexism, shrimp scampi, Streaming services, SUV full of stuff, thoughts, tiramisu, tuning in to watch TV, TV, VCR

• Yelling Instructions and Open Caskets – Thoughts from January 27, 2023

  

  I’m terrible at non-creative tasks. If you tell me to create something or help figure something out, I can start thinking of possibilities right away. If you give me orders to follow, my brain panics and shuts down. I can memorize things on my own, but my conversational memory sucks. When I have written instructions,…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 21, 2024

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  2023, American society, audio instructions, autobiography, beliefs, death on display, disturbing open casket, disturbing religious traditions, disturbing ritual, extreme religions, false beliefs, following instructions, funerals, hate, ignoring reality, my conversational memory sucks, non-creative tasks, open casket, open casket for a child, quick instructions, racism, reality denial, religion, seeing a dead boby, sexism, things that disturb me, thoughts, unnatural, written instructions

• Brian Explains Being Macho – Thoughts from November 12, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: Being Macho Soap operas are the down-fall of women. I’m not saying that men don’t watch them, but most men find the melodramatic events in soap operas a tad too emotional to take. This is not a description of this man. I cry all the time. Gossip is one of my favorite hobbies,…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 6, 2023

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