50 Toxic Things Every Girl Should Stop Romanticizing About Love, Life, And Relationships

41. Poverty. You sometimes see it being portrayed like it helps you appreciate the true things in life and just a bit stop before greater things. But poverty just makes everything more difficult – you don’t have money enough to take risks to make money, and poverty reduces your cognitive abilities, making it even harder to escape it.

42. Child abuse presented as a good parenting technique “back in my day”. Whenever someone says, “When I was a kid, I got whipped with a belt every day, and I turned out just fine!”, it makes me want to whip them with my belt to remind them just how awful it felt. And really, Larry, did you turn out just fine, because the evidence shows otherwise…?