Hey, weirdly, this is now the “takes on Quillette blog.” I can’t help it. This showed up in my Facebook feed, and I’m only human. So I read it. It was actually super interesting. Of course in the beginning it’s got the obligatory boring feminism straw-manning (“all hetero sex is RAAAAAAPE”). Would Quillette cease to … [Read more…]
I think Quillette is 99% trash. Which is why I loved this part, especially, of this longread on the “public intellectual:” Speaking of white audiences … here’s where I mention the intellectual dark web even though I would rather not. It’s the place — online, outside the academy, in pseudo-intellectual “free thought” mag Quillette — … [Read more…]
I realize that, as a feminist, I’m supposed to hate men. That’s what the Independent Women’s Forum wants people to believe, anyway. Just take this recent post from their blog. “There’s a concerted effort on the left to uplift women at the expense of men,” author Patrice Lee Onwuka writes. Now I’m not going to … [Read more…]
I’m not a huge fan of biological gender essentialism, but this is interesting. Apparently, some research shows that when girls hear something, we process it in the language center of our brains, but when boys hear something, the visual parts of their brains activate, which some researchers think means that while girls can grasp a … [Read more…]
I don’t really want a baby. I don’t even like them all that much, tbh. But damn it if I didn’t cry listening to this podcast co-hosted by my former Thoughts on Liberty (RIP) colleague and fellow Alabama native Liz Beshears. In it, Anna Claire Vollers describes losing her baby shortly after giving birth. She’s … [Read more…]
No one reads anymore. It’s sad, but it’s true. Yes, I’m a way better writer than a speaker but what I am more than anything is a person with OPINIONS. So it’s time for me to make like a white dude and start a podcast. My producer/spirit guide Amit and I are going to be … [Read more…]
A friend recently asked me to point them to some things I’ve written about non-monogamy and I came up surprisingly empty-handed, for as much as I tweet and post and think and talk about it. And do it. This will by no means be comprehensive or satisfying (like me in bed, oh!). But I want … [Read more…]
This is a really good overview and introduction to the nationwide housing crisis. The piece points out that high housing costs are trapping Millennials in our parents’ basements well into our 30s. One problem with living with your parents longer is that your parents often don’t live in so-called “high-opportunity zones.” In this way, this … [Read more…]
USA Today is calling medical misogyny, which I recently wrote about for Medium, “a sex and gender gap every woman needs to know about.” From the USA Today piece: “It’s not malice but a pervasive, implicit sex and gender bias in medicine that’s leading female patients to be misdiagnosed, neglected, dismissed as complainers, accused of … [Read more…]
Henlo my babies, It’s been too long! Here’s what I’ve written/talked on since we last checked in: March 5, 2019, I published an Unintended Consequences column: How Segregation Priced Out a Generation by Design March 18, 2019, I appeared on the Challenging Opinions podcast: CO105 Cathy Reisenwitz on Cars and Freedom. March 31, 2019, I … [Read more…]