Toxic Masculinity in the Costco return line

Claudia Stack
ILLUMINATION
Published in
12 min readJul 9, 2023

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Same stuff, different day

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There was a carton of meal replacement drinks in my cart. The kind you might drink if you have been ill, or that you get for your elderly parent, which was the case with me. I had purchased the drinks for my mother from Costco after the COVID lockdown was lifted. At the time I bought them, I was preparing…

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