Listen, I’m not a conservative, a Christian, an MRA, a MGTOW, or anything but . . . maybe this needs to be acknowledged as a really unavoidable tradeoff of a culture of total sexual agency*, with an assist from copious alcohol. That is, that rather than men or institutions just being insufficiently feminist, we’re up…

“People get so into picking apart the individual instances that they can’t see the forest for the trees.”

Yes, once again it’s time for another episode of NARRATIVE ENTREPRENEURS . . .

Tethers and goats

No but that’s just it: As regards ‘risk assessment’ we are learning that exactly squat links these people together. Statistically they’re kind of male, kind of antisocial, but really nothing links them together and/or differentiates them from the population at large. There are no ‘tells’ no way of ‘profiling’ them.

Married person here: No, you really cannot. We are a shifty bunch. Best not to ever turn your backs on us.

You really do? Like, you read Anders Breivik or Christopher Harper-Mercer’s manifestoes with rapt attention? Your reaction wasn’t, as I suspect is more likely and is certainly the case with, disgust mixed with a twinge of boredom?

I like to think I’ve successfully threaded this needle by hating everyone, all religions and all political viewpoints. And then, just for fairness’ sake, I engage in a lot of self-hate too. I’ve achieved the zen of hate: I see myself in the other and the other in me and I realize we are all absolutely fucking…

The secret lies in his super aerodynamic skinny jeans.

It’s only slightly more ridiculous than the quantity of weapons that guy is carrying around.

Yknow lets take your politically correct OCD as-understood, okay? It isn’t actually out of bounds to ever critize one religion without, in the same sentence, criticizing all of them.

Yes. Religion—any religion—ruins everything.

Such a beautiful tale of the moderate, peaceful culture of Islam.

Actually sometimes being drunk doesn’t even matter . . .

Well, no: The general advice of the philosophers of many cultures and traditions is to make no icons, especially not those patterned on yourself.

Or, here’s an idea, maybe we don’t need to do anything and that if Moslems just CANNOT help but go join murderists then that says something about Islam.

Actually teenagers are smart and capable. Not these worthless dips, but many of them.

Terrorist. Got what was coming to her and to all of those shits. Nice of them to turn on each other. Saves us time.

Those few who don’t resist and join up? They are evil.

‘The Moistmaker’ is when my wife goes out to run errands and comes back to find I have done 4 loads of laundry, run the dishwasher, paid the bills, and am now on the couch reading story books with the kids.