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Tag Archives: race/gender/etc
Radicalizing the Romanceless
[COMMENT THREAD CLOSED GO AWAY] [Content note: Gender, relationships, feminism, manosphere. Quotes, without endorsing and with quite a bit of mocking, mean arguments by terrible people. Some analogical discussion of fatphobia, poorphobia, Islamophobia. This topic is personally enraging to me … Continue reading
Ozy’s Anti Heartiste FAQ
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ozy Frantz. I do not necessarily endorse everything it says, but I do contingently agree with a lot of it. Content note for profanity, social justice stuff, manosphere stuff, and graphic descriptions … Continue reading
Social Justice And Words, Words, Words
[Content note: hostility toward social justice, discussion of various prejudices] “Words! Words! Words! Iām so sick of words! I get words all day through. First from him, now from you. Is that all you blighters can do?” – Eliza Doolittle … Continue reading
Invisible Women
[EDIT: Two readers – Pseudo-Erasmus and Noah Smith – have chimed in with very plausible explanations centering around labor force participation and productivity.] A commenter asked in yesterday’s discussion on The Two-Income Trap: why did the entry of women into … Continue reading
Living By The Sword
[Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, scary Internet mobbing.] [Try not to link to this everywhere because I feel bad about discussing it and don’t want to spread it to more of the Internet than it has to be or make this … Continue reading
The Wonderful Thing About Triggers
[Content note: hypothetical spiders] I complain a lot about the social justice movement. Or for a change, I sometimes complain that the media is too friendly to the social justice movement. So when the media starts challenging the movement, with … Continue reading
Someone Writes An Anti-Racist FAQ
The Anti-Racialist Q&A – inspired by my own Anti-Reactionary FAQ and written by blogger The Prussian on SkepticInk – is an astounding essay. It’s astounding because it is a piece of writing about race that is so good that I … Continue reading
Typical Mind and Disbelief In Straight People
Lots of no doubt very wise people avoid comment threads here, but the comments on Universal Human Experiences are really worth it. The post was about how people mistake their own unique and individual ways of experiencing the world for … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ā)
[content warning: rape, false rape allegations. Some people have been linking this article claiming it says things it DEFINITELY DOES NOT, so please read it before you have an opinion.] (see also parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of ā) … Continue reading
A Response To Apophemi on Triggers
[content warning: discussion of triggers. Mentions various triggers. Mentions, without using or condoning, racial slurs] I. I originally planned not to respond to Apophemi’s essay requesting that people not discuss potentially triggering ideas dispassionately, because my response would inevitably have … Continue reading