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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Welcome back to Tweed Trends. Today is National Nut Day. And as much as I would love to highlight the nutty claim that there's a phony emoluments clause, because in case you haven't checked your Constitution lately, there are two emoluments clauses in there.
One is for foreign and the other is for domestic. But you didn't hear that from me. You can check it out on your own. But you know, I don't do politics here.
So let me take a few steps back and go back to my topic. It's National Nut Day. And the topic's, although there's nothing really nutty that's trending like with literal nuts, there are some things that might make you feel a little nutty when you think about it. So that's what today's topics are going to cover.
Those things that might make you feel a little nutty. So let's get started. So this first one is in regards to an opinion piece about domestic violence. Personally, when I see people who have so much to say about a topic and then when you dig deeper, you find out that they have no personal first-hand experience.
They have nothing that connects them to that topic. But yet they have so much to say, I consider them straight and that jobs. Nutty, macadamia, all those things. Just straight and nutty.
Now this woman, although she's in Australia, her story is no different from anyone that you would hear of someone here in the United States, where she was a victim of abuse. And one day she finally got the courage to leave. And she finishes her piece with some things for us to consider. One, when you find yourself asking, well, why doesn't she just leave?
You might want to consider the fact that the system is complicated. The situation is complicated. There are a lot of things that go through a person's mind when they are in an abusive relationship. Maybe they grew up with that in their family and that was all they've seen.
So that in their mind is what a relationship is supposed to look like. And when they realize that maybe this isn't the best thing, there are other things that need to be considered as well. As far as the fact that this person may feel like, oh my gosh, one of these days he may go through with what he says and actually kill me. And people will try to brush out like, girl, you're crazy, especially people that know the guy.
They'll be like, oh, he's such a teddy bear. He would never heard anybody. You don't know that. You don't know what happens behind closed doors.
So shut your face. Another thing she says that you should consider is the financial toll that the young lady will face when trying to get away or have the system set her up after the fact. And especially if children are involved, that it makes it very complicated. And some may just say, you know, it's less complicated for me to stay here.
I know how he is. I know what his triggers are. And therefore, if I just tip toe around him, maybe we can make this work and I not get killed tonight. She also tells you to consider the battle that the person will have being traumatized.
And then people trying to tell her how she should have reacted, how she should have managed, what she should have done, that would have been better. Well, hindsight is 2020. When you're in the moment, that's all you have is that moment. And whatever thoughts are going through your mind, you got to do what you got to do, especially once again, if kids are involved.
And then lastly, she says that you have to consider how they're going to make you feel way as in society when, you know, especially it should something bad happen, like if she ends up hurting the guy or whatever, that, you know, all of a sudden, you're going to be expected to have handled this in such a way when you don't know what type of trauma she's been exposed to to know what type of mindset she was in when all this was happening. So bottom line is, before you try to make a nutty comment about what someone that's been abused should do, consider what may have been going on and all of the pieces of the puzzle and not just that one you should have left. This memory is going to take me. I remember when just about every bathroom had these dispensers in it that you could get tampons, nexie pads, panty liners, condoms, all those types of items from now granted, when I was young, most of these machines were empty.
They had not been maintained and therefore, there was nothing in them. Now granted, you had to pay like maybe 25 cents, 50 cents, to get something out of these machines. But then I ran across this article that talks about a report that finds that period poverty is the top reason girls miss school. And it made me think back to these machines and the restrooms because I used to think it was silly that these things were there because I know that once I started my period, I traveled with pads like missionaries travel with their Bibles.
I would not leave home without multiples because you never know. And I was always afraid that I was going to have an accent. That was my biggest fear. But so in reading this article, it says that they did a study of 1,000 teens between the ages of 13 and 19, and found that one in five can't afford to purchase hygiene type products.
And that is very disturbing. And once again, it took me back to those restrooms. And so even if they had the machines in the restrooms like at the schools or whatever, where they could pay a quarter to get a pad out, those of you that aren't females know that you're going to go through more than one pad in a day. So then you try to calculate how much is it going to cost for them to have a four day, five day period.
And even machines wouldn't have helped much because they would still have to have the money to get the pads out of the machines. Or maybe that's why those machines that I saw were not working properly because somebody broke into the machines and stole the stuff out because they needed it really bad. But didn't have the money to get the stuff out. I don't know how that worked out.
But either way, I felt really nutty when I was thinking about this whole thing. And it's like, it just got me to thinking about a bunch of different things. Like, what about the homeless women that you see on the streets? Do they have access to hygiene products?
And does that mean, like, now I should maybe do the Ziploc bags where people will put like a little bit of candy or something in it or crackers and lip balm and that type of stuff? Do I need to put together some bags like that and put hygiene products in it so that they need a MaxiPad or a tampon or, of course, you had to put more than one in there because one ain't going to do you any good. That was a key before a couple hours. But after that, then what?
So I don't know. I'll definitely link this so you can see. And maybe you want to consider thinking about, I don't know how we can help. So if you come up with some suggestions, please let me know and let's spread the word because nobody wants to deal with period poverty.
Now this next one might make you feel like in that, especially if you ask yourself this. If I'm so smart, how come I'm not rich? You know, because we all think we're smart. But there's some smart people out there that are straight up stinkin' rich.
Now the answer is probably going to make you feel pretty bad, but let's start with a little bit of science and math here. Now there's this distribution known as the 80-20 rule. And the distribution of wealth seems to follow this particular rule. It basically states that 80% of the wealth is held by 20% of the people.
And in fact, there was a report done just last year that said that eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world's poorest 3.8 billion people. And a lot of times when people try to explain this, they say, oh, well, I know what it is. It's based on merit. These people are smart.
They're intelligent, they're talented, they put in a lot of effort, they do all that it takes. And the rest of us are just lazy and stupid. But that's not the case, not at all. Because the studies show that it's basically luck.
These people are lucky. They have better luck than other people. And by having the luck, they also get the wealth, the money that comes along with it. And think about it.
Now you might have Diana in the community. She is seeing like all outdoors. And then you got somebody like Diana Ross, who is a discovered singer and has had a long career and has got loot. But what's the difference between the two Diana's?
They have the same name. They have the same talent. But guess what? One of them has more luck than the other one.
One of them got discovered. One of them then was able to move on with a career. Whereas the other one, she just hasn't run into the right people, hasn't met the right people. People don't have the right kind of funds around her to be able to get her to that same place.
Her luck isn't right. That's all. And it's the same for the rest of us. We may be the brightest, the best, the smartest.
Think about those people you went to school with. They were really smart. And then you go back to the classroom, and you're like, what happened to this dude? He had it going on.
And now what? Like, what happened? Bad luck happened. They say quite often that most people are one bad accident or trip to the emergency room away from being homeless.
And so you think about that. And it's like, you have a couple of bad breaks like that. And it's tough to get back on your feet. It's tough.
So when you think about wealth and whatnot and why you have or don't have it, just consider how lucky you are. And then you won't feel like such a nut. Well, that was today's show. Thanks for joining me here on Tweet Trends.
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