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Audioslave’s Doesn't Remind Me music video is a story of toxic masculinity.

The video: https://youtu.be/lBFdX37Qpnk

I don’t know what Audioslave and the video's director intended. They may have meant for the boxing match to be liberating, or may have meant to make it disturbing. But ignoring the artists' intentions it's a disturbing story of a cycle of toxic masculinity. The family has lost their husband and father to war, and the very-young son finds solace in… playing with toys that look like weapons of war, running away and breaking things, and getting involved in a violent competition*. The son is too young to know any better but it seems society (including his mother, but also everyone training him and cheering him on) is more than happy to repeat the toxic cy

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r/StLouis•

Absentee ballots?

Where we moved from (Cleveland), you could get an absentee ballot without stating a reason. It was absolutely okay to vote absentee just for convenience.

Now that we're in St Louis county I was investigating how to get an absentee ballot from the county board of elections, and they require a reason. None of those reasons are "I'd rather mail in my ballot than go to the polls on election day." Is voting absentee just for convenience really not allowed around here?

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r/StLouis•

Who makes Christmas ales, and where can I buy a pack?

Every year pretty much every Cleveland-area brewery makes a Christmas Ale (Beer Advocate calls them "Winter Warmers"). Basically a malty spiced amber or brown ale. Now that we live in STL we expected to try the local Christmas Ales but we haven't found a single one. We've found beers released for the winter but nothing like what we were expecting. Schlafly has a Christmas Ale in the Beer Advocate list but their website has nothing about it and we can't find it in stores.

So are any local breweries making these, and where can we get them?

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