As a man, I can make the following observation: we broke the women so hard they can’t even understand the women who’d liberate them. What prompted me to revisit the topic was this article by Poppy Sowerby in Unherd, about choking women during sex. But first, it’s important to remember what Audre Lorde actually said…
The basic idea of David McMahan’s Rethinking Meditation is good: perennialism is wrong; we need a constructivist account of meditation. I was once a perennialist, but now I agree. Like a typical American self-proclaimed Buddhist, I got into it through martial arts as a kid and psychedelics as a teenager. “The Perennial Philosophy” is a…
Some of the funnest people to troll are trans activists who’ve overdosed on theory to the point of “sex is a social construct.” They’re used to intimidating people with big words while having no idea what they’re talking about. Invariably, you can defeat them by linking to the Wikipedia entry on sex and asking them…
The trans movement is a huge tragedy, having convinced an entire generation that this is what “progress” looks like. In the years leading up to 9/11, there was a whole anti-globalization movement, with all kinds of left/liberal factions working in solidarity. Teamsters marched with people dressed up as sea turtles. Naomi Klein’s No Logo was…
Wow, more than a year since I posted. I got bored with blogging and settled into a routine of trolling on Reddit’s critical theory board. Alas, I’m finally banned for transphobia. It’s for the best, though. Writing something longer will be good for my attention span. And I have a fun target: Kevin Okoth’s Red…
David Rosen’s latest at CounterPunch is called Gender Nonconformity: Further Erosion of Patriarchy. It’s confusing, but that seems to be the goal. I’ve been saying for a long time that the trans movement can’t have a real theory of patriarchy, because if it did, it would self-reflect and then stop. As a liberal movement, they…
I can’t think of a better word for Nicky Reid’s writing than “histrionic.” Everything is over-the-top, turned up to 11. Just look at the self-description on his blog: I’m a genderfuck Ted Kaczynski with a blog instead of a bomb. I make no qualms about my intention to destroy the American empire from the comfort…