Self-objectification distinguishes us from our forebears. You might say we’re in an era of hyper-self-objectification (someone probably has). Social media gives anyone the opportunity to package and broadcast oneself as a crafted image, to imagine themselves as a work of art. Popular makeup and hair for women has gone from the attempt to fake youthContinue reading “Objectification”
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Predator, Prey
None other than the New York Times has exposed, it would seem, the hypocrisy of early #MeToo leader Asia Argento. Only now I learn her struggle: she was compelled to fake orgasm to get Harvey Weinstein’s face out of her vagina, just like Rose McGowan before her, except Argento maintained a consensual sexual relationship with Weinstein forContinue reading “Predator, Prey”
In with the Incel Crowd
I’m not surprised by the lack of sympathy for incels. It’s to be expected. It isn’t like sexual failure is a moral failing now–it’s worse than that, because it’s evolutionary failure, the ultimate failure. The same logic behind nice guys finishing last is behind our disdain of them. Avoiding association with the evolutionary loser isContinue reading “In with the Incel Crowd”
Incels at the Gates of Sexual Utopia
Youth, beauty, strength: the criteria for physical love are exactly the same as those of Nazism. In short, I was in the shit.—Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island Sexual innocence has gone to market. In the absence of moral restraint. sexual competition becomes a laissez faire market, with similar disparities in success. But whileContinue reading “Incels at the Gates of Sexual Utopia”
Sex and Betrayal
The public humiliation of Aziz Ansari marks the “me too” sexual inquisition’s escalation into prosecuting romantic and sexual disappointment. Women are compelled to sexual excess at the same time they are absolved of any responsibility for their safety. Birth control enabled widespread sexual license, which has in turn engendered crises for both masculinity and femininity,Continue reading “Sex and Betrayal”
First they came for the leering studio heads and I did not speak out…
Google’s Eric Schmidt is the latest to fall to the sexual inquisition. It isn’t who they’re going after now, but what. Guys with anything to be pilfered away by the current frenzy had better not even think about cheating. Sort of takes all the point out of success: Schmidt is a known womanizer despite being marriedContinue reading “First they came for the leering studio heads and I did not speak out…”
I believe children are the dystopian future
“We need to be allies to children. Children do not have the capacity to articulate their feelings, they do not have power over their own beings to come to the rallies…they are not in control of their own destiny. They need to see you, transgender children need to see you, transgender children, even those whoContinue reading “I believe children are the dystopian future”
Sexual Perversity
Youth, beauty, strength: the criteria for physical love are exactly the same as those of Nazism. In short, I was in the shit.—Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island Sexual innocence has gone to market.In our liberated era, sexuality is increasingly valued, and modesty increasingly devalued (once was a person was a deviant if overlyContinue reading “Sexual Perversity”
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