“Human civilisation” will not end. Civilisations rise and fall. The only thing that could end with this demographic pinch is high-tech secular modernity, which is - in civilisational terms - a very recent thing

Maybe JS Mill style liberal individualism was always a power move by high executive function men, to rig the game against those men who would be serious competitors given a clear hierarchy and strong guardrails, but who lapse into dissolution otherwise

F.L.Everett I’m pig sick of avant garde polyamorous Brooklynites - you invite them over for a picnic party plank & fizz to mark the Coronation & it’s all ‘are your boundaries porous’

It’s incredible how few people are still unaware that #EdBallsDay was once a pagan festival in honour of Baals, only in later centuries corrupted to ‘Balls’ and overlaid with a modern interpretation

When we reframe the collapse in family size from a crisis of childBEARING to a crisis of childREARING it becomes obvious why artificial wombs won’t fix it

And also why yelling at women won’t fix it either

The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for social nuance

Oh my sweet summer child 😂

When someone of either sex says “let me ask my husband/wife” it means “No, and I can’t be bothered to explain to you why”

Mary Harrington No one wanted today to be the day they found out that Alastair Campbell likes to do sit-down wees, but we're all here now and will have to make the most of it.

It remains baffling to me that this counted (counts?) as feminism, if feminism is defined as being in favor of women’s interests and rights.

I wonder if he realises you could install cubicles in the gents and give men all these nice things without foisting unisex toilets on women who don’t want them

JL Austin is turning in his grave

I doubt Ryanair will ever operate a deportation flight to Rwanda, as O'Leary hinted yesterday. But if the policy is ever realised, I suspect even Labour will come to view it in much the same light as users do Ryanair: as both unpleasant but also expedient unherd.com/newsroom/will-…

Fascinating read on why the Peel Principles no longer work in a multicultural London - and why the Met's role has gone from policing to appeasement

By Mary Harrington

unherd.com/2024/04/how-th…

h/t Jo Bartosch

Checking in on Gender Discourse