Month: April 2021

A long time ago, I learned a lot about high school debate from someone named Charles Olney, who’s become a political science professor. Debate is a very white thing, which I grew up doing in a very white town. It’s where I first learned about critical race theory, which helped in therapy 20 years later,…

I’ve only read The Beauty Myth once, about 10 years ago. I was married at the time, and my wife was always disappointed that life wasn’t a photoshoot in an artsy fashion magazine. I wasn’t the one buying magazines that made her feel bad. She was. That’s significant for later. During the Bush years, 14…

“Sex positivity” is an extremely pernicious development in which the appearance of feminism is preserved while the content is replaced with liberal justifications for hurting people. The trick is using the word “consent” as a thought-stopping device. Everyone understands that having sex with someone over their objections is wrong, as a basic moral principle, and…