I met Antwaan Randle El when we were both in our early 20s (he wouldn’t remember me; we had a brief conversation after an introduction by a mutual friend).

He was a charming, intelligent, sharp dude who exuded athleticism (he was drafted by the Cubs, but he was also on a Bobby Knight-coached Indiana basketball squad -…

Do you love it even in light of the exceedingly poor writing and thinking shown in the above emails?

These people make laws, for fuck’s sake. When you pay them nothing, you’ll get idiots like this guy in the legislature.

He didn’t have consent, and he knew he didn’t. He just thought he could “wear you down” until you’d stop actively saying “no.”

That’s rape in my book. If that makes people uncomfortable because it’s familiar, the proper response is not to simply exclude this from the definition of rape so that you won’t feel that way…

When I was a kid, my father told me that Ira Gershwin had two penises. “Bipenile” was his exact descriptor.

I believed this, without question, until I was in my twenties.

“It’s just streetball these days!”

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that . . .

So the first verse is about James Taylor, right?

Especially Duke Law.

Many of the stories he tells are true.
Many of the stories he tells are his.
Few are both.

I see you haven’t read any of his stuff.

The Mets’ NL East is finally showing.

Arguably a business record if he monetizes his website (which I’m sure he does); better argument is that it’s not being introduced as evidence of marital rape, but rather of his state of mind on the subject.

Then trust his beliefs - namely, that (1) he’s morally right and (2) that “everyone” secretly agrees with his…

Yes, I agree.

Language - even matters as fundamental as basic structure and syntax - varies from culture to culture, but undeniably “exists.”

The concept of family is a social construct that varies between cultures, but family certainly “exists,” and has real effects.

Gender can exist without being a tool of oppression, precisely…

No I don’t, because it’s in that same citation:

“Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender-normative; behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these…

See, the trick is to keep reading:

“Gender identity refers to ‘one’s sense of oneself as male, female, or transgender’ (American Psychological Association, 2006).”

“Sexuality determines whether and individual is attracted to the same or the opposite, say it with me, sex.”

No. That is “sexual orientation.” https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resour… (this might look familiar to you if you already read my other recent response).

“Sexuality” is broader than simply that: https://www.optionsfor…

You are 100% incorrect. https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resour…

I wonder what her contemporary, Shulamith Firestone, would have said about this?

Firestone wrote of a utopian future where womanhood was utterly divorced from conception, pregnancy, and childbirth; where, literally, the possession of a uterus was the least, not most, important piece of womanhood. I’d like to think…

She is.

I can: “Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity. Gender identity, in nearly all…