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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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You Don’t Need Love
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, romance is on everyone’s mind. I bet you’re busy buying chocolates and getting a reservation for the perfect date spot to surprise your loving partner. And if you, unfortunately, don’t have anyone to wine and dine yet, you’re frantically searching for the perfect person to be your valentine this year […]
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From Native to Na’vi: Cinematic Culture Controversy
Just as the long year of 2022 was winding down to an end, renowned director James Cameron’s newest film “Avatar: The Way of Water” released to stunning commercial success, smashing annual and historical records to quickly become one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. Although it was released a whopping 13 years after the […]
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A Scientific Ranking of Pokémon Movies
For years, YouTube video essayists have worked tirelessly to definitively find the best Pokémon movie. With Ash Ketchum’s journey as a forever 10-year-old protagonist finally coming to an end, I took it upon myself to figure out the true answer, once and for all. Historically, this field of study has been fraught with bias, rooted […]
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Abolish Gifted Kids
In first grade, I was admitted into my school’s ‘Gifted and Talented’ program. Once a week, I got to spend the entire school day in a special class with less than a dozen other kids, learning from a passionate and highly-qualified teacher. The curriculum was designed to encourage critical thinking, build problem solving skills, and […]
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Mental Health is Not a Checklist
Mental health counseling has become a checklist method in order to meet high demand, and this quantity over quality approach has stirred some unfortunate developments. A ‘checklist method’ is a systematic approach through automatic responses in contrast to overwhelming demand. Mental health counseling has been forced to adapt to this new system in order to […]
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Accessibility in Video Games
As video games become more mainstream, game developers have added a variety of accessibility options for disabled players. Some common improvements are closed captions and visual cues for deaf players, alternate color options for colorblind players, or more comfortable controllers for players with motor disabilities like arthritis. These advancements are wonderful for disabled players, and […]
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Your Favorite Characters are Autistic (Yes, Even That One)
Have you ever had an epiphany that felt like the psychological equivalent of stepping on a Lego? Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, I’ve made a personal discovery that almost every Charlie Chaplin film is an allegory for autism. The god Apollo visited me in a dream and beamed this forbidden knowledge directly into my […]
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Unmasking the (Super)Power Fantasy
Spoilers Ahead!!! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…boring. In one superhero, Superman gets super strength, super hearing, flight, speed, x-ray vision, freeze breath, laser vision, invincibility, and – somehow – more. No fight is even a question for him; his whole gimmick is that he’s unbeatable, and in the few instances where he does […]
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Stop the Baby Machine Mentality
Hey ladies! Did you know that apparently you’re supposed to prioritize your future children over yourself when it comes to receiving (possibly life-saving) healthcare? Even if those children don’t currently (or will never) exist? Most women are well aware that society expects them to get pregnant at some point in their lives. (I realize that […]
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Vote to Make Your Vote Matter
It’s election season! Doesn’t that just make your heart race? What else do young college students look forward to more than seeing their voices be silenced yet again in order to keep the old white men in power? Trust me, I know how tiresome politics can be; I have stopped keeping up with it myself […]
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Being a Material Girl in a Streaming World
On August 4th, 2022, every terminally online person including myself opened their Twitter feed to find some very disconcerting news. Two popular streaming services — er, scratch that — the popular streaming service HBO Max and some completely niche, underground streaming service called Discovery+ swore a sacred oath before God to love each other always, […]
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Dear Men, Your Feminist Writing Sucks
I want to start off by saying that I am a woman, I am a feminist, and I love feminism. I love women being girlbosses. However, I am sick and tired of men patting themselves on the back for writing “feminist” characters without ever having spoken to a woman before. In cartoons, there are two […]