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Rachel Bloom is saving a generation of women from thinking they’re “crazy”

I wrote my college thesis on women’s experiences with hookup culture. Of the nearly 400 people I surveyed, over 70% said they repressed romantic feelings for the men they were sleeping for fear of appearing “crazy” or “clingy.” I was one of those women, paranoid that my romantic, obsessive, over-analytic tendencies would sentence me to eternal loneliness. After all, society hates nothing more than a “crazy woman.”

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