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From the Ted Talk by iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

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I get it. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliqeus as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can — music preference, race, gdener, the boclk that we grew up on. We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices. Sometimes, though, just the qstieuon "what do you do?" can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it. Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting. The boxes are too narrow. And this can get really dnagueros.

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I get it. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming _______ as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can — music preference, race, ______, the _____ that we grew up on. We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices. Sometimes, though, just the ________ "what do you do?" can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it. Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting. The boxes are too narrow. And this can get really _________.

Solution


  1. question
  2. block
  3. dangerous
  4. gender
  5. cliques

Original Text


I get it. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can — music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on. We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices. Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?" can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it. Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting. The boxes are too narrow. And this can get really dangerous.

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Important Words


  1. acceptance
  2. based
  3. block
  4. bond
  5. box
  6. boxes
  7. categories
  8. choices
  9. cliques
  10. dangerous
  11. environments
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  18. limiting
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  23. people
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  25. preference
  26. question
  27. race
  28. reinforce
  29. seek
  30. squeeze
  31. start
  32. tiny