I think it’s closer to rancid semen, but you are fundamentally correct.

“male athletes in sports bras striking odd poses” - the world needs more of this.

Yeah, I think that’s exactly right. They have completely bought into that mindset—they’re just on the “losing” side. Obviously, both sides are in fact losing, and feminism is a clear way out of that lose-lose situation, but I think while the feminist critique of patriarchal cis-het male sexuality is well developed and…

I really hope someone has done or is doing some in-depth scholarly work on incels. They clearly seem to be related to the notion of the “nice guy” (perhaps being a weaponized version of the “nice guy”?), but regardless of origins or of any typology we could create, it seems like at the core it’s a reflection of, yes,…

The part of my brain that likes conspiracy yarn is making me note that David Vitter is the senator that Stormy Daniels ran against in the Republican primary in 2009. I’ll let you know when I post my crackpot youtube video.

He’s going to be such a fruitful case study for people who want to teach young men how not to be patriarchal assholes.

I am in desperate need of hygge in space.

I’m amazed sometimes at how he lays bare the raw, deeply insecure core at the heart of masculinity as it is currently constituted.

I feel a strong need to save that header image for later use.

It would be nice for everyone to move past image management and get at substantive change. NAGL for Vice or GS.

See, I read it more as a kind of woozy disorientation, until the end in the tower. But you’re right that it’s not exactly horror. The alien never quite bursts out of the chest, so to speak.

It seemed like it’d be difficult to really render the psychological body horror that the book is doing into something blockbuster-ish enough to work. They probably needed to go more Under the Skin.

I choose to believe she is levitating.

Ace of Spades would actually be perfect for an up-tempo free dance. I’m also waiting for a Russian to use some ambient black metal. I mean, that “clinical death” dance seems thematically in line.

“Darker, gayer, different”—I love how right-wing nightmare scenarios so often are like, yes, that’s exactly what I want. See also “taco truck on every corner.”

We should be so lucky.

Yeah, unions are in crisis in the U.S. for a variety of reasons, but I think you can see the same trend in the U.S. that you mention in Australia, i.e., the most powerful and dynamic unions are centered around historically feminized professions.

I do sometimes wonder what we could do if the overall quality of human beings elected to office were just a modicum higher.

Right? I mean, sometimes you pass up a point in the name of strategic unity, but it was right there.

More writing like this on Deals, please. And add this to your clip file, if people do that kind of thing anymore.

More writing like this on Deals, please. And add this to your clip file, if people do that kind of thing anymore.