The New York Times Magazine has published a great essay on masculinity, from a trans man’s perspective. As someone who’s against patriarchy, I don’t support the trans movement. Instead of recognizing gender roles as oppressive by design, it reinforces them and can’t think beyond them. I reject the concept of “born in the wrong body.”…
Alice Deejay – Better Off Alone
I’m autistic, and I had autistic parents. Between the autism and my mom being a Jehovah’s Witness, they didn’t believe in lying to children. I’m not sure anyone really has “childhood innocence”, but my parents prevented anything like that on principle. My dad was a social worker, so in childhood I heard all about child…
The Act of Killing is a movie about, essentially, what happens when Republicans achieve their dream of killing all the social justice warriors and ruling with impunity. The trailer is here: It would be wrong to view these events as taking place in some exotic culture, unrelated to our own. The death squad in the…