Only women can print women and their incentive is to induce an artificial shortage that increases their power. Men invented transgenderism to break their monopoly but women control the schools and started transitioning more girls than boys. Fortunately, we have a secret solution

U.S. Senator John Fetterman

Some nice light eugenics would be encouraging high-quality men to donate sperm, and subsidizing a round of egg freezing for college-educated women.

Catchy opening! But the comma splice is unwieldy. Why dont you try "It was not just the best of times. It was also the worst of times."

Going back to film-minus-TV seems like a reasonable compromise, but even that might be too fraught

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

Every single assessment about morality, progress and possible outcome of the Iran war I read is 100% correlated with whether the author likes or hates Trump. It's pretty annoying

While American female beauty standards have only escalated in the last 40 to 50 years, male beauty standards have fallen off a cliff. Men in the 1980s were expected to daily do their hair, sometimes using even more products than women. If you went to a club, men wore elaborate,

Texas before the islamic revolution

As a 35-year-old woman, I get hit on by men ~30 and in their 40s, but men my age treat me like I'm too old for them

You'd think that people concerned about AI risk would be thinking in terms of knock-on effects, but I guess there are crazies in every movement

Classes that assign 100 pages a week are training you to function in a different way. You learn to triage what's important, modulate between skimming/focusing, and juggle priorities. The point isn't reading every page, it's learning these skills, and they're necessary if you ever

Recently froze my eggs, and the estrogen megadose it required briefly made me into a completely different (meaning hornier, and cuter, and gayer) person, so I wrote a trip report about it. Link in bio!

some examples: -you seek sexual validation from multiple sources rather than depth with one -you use your sexuality to meet non-sexual needs (eg: safety, attention, power) -you perform desire instead of feeling it -you can't contain or channel your sexual energy—it leaks out

The problem with Lena Dunham is she wants to be loved as an icon & can’t appreciate being hated as a prophet. The icon is loved then quickly forgotten. The prophet is hated & exiled & reduced to eating locust in the desert but you die vindicated, that used to be enough.

Lena Dunham refusing to go on Ozempic is much more Nietzschean than anything any of those large accounts on here who periodically wheel her out to give her a predictable kicking when they need to juice engagement has ever done.

Writing taught me that clarity is an act of courage. It's easy to stay vague. Vague is safe. Vague doesn't commit to anything.

This quote from Lena Dunham’s doctor (re: hysterectomies) gave me the chills

Infuriating everyone by giving jessa a reactionary right wing turn would be a hilariously Lena thing to do

It's pretty momentous, but 3 of the 10 decades of the 20th century were probably more momentous than this one now.