Tag: Discomfort

The Queen has pulled out of Friday’s St Paul’s Cathedral service, citing ‘discomfort’

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The Queen has with ‘great reluctance’ pulled out of Friday’s Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace announced tonight. 

The 96-year-old monarch, who has been suffering with mobility issues, is said to have experienced ‘discomfort’ during today’s events, which kickstarted the four-day celebration to commemorate her 70-year reign. 

However the head of state will still make an appearance at tonight’s lighting of the beacons event at Windsor Castle. 

The Palace said: ‘The Queen greatly enjoyed today’s Birthday

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Someone Else’s Discomfort: On Gregg Bordowitz

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When I was growing up, I rarely thought about masculinity, which is one of the main privileges it affords. Back then, in the 1980s and ’90s, so long as you weren’t bad in some crass, pawing, physically aggressive way, you could consider yourself good. But the gradient of masculine identities seemed so basic and finite—from jock to nerd—that, to me, the only real

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