From a letter. I had a question. I dictated this in the car while driving, and I’m afraid it ran away with me. My real question is immediately below. All the background and why I’m wondering it follows. I was wondering how plausible you thought it might be to hypothesize that the archetypes are themselvesContinue reading “Weaponizing archetypes”
Tag Archives: Sex
Why fear differences?
People today, for all their talk of equity, inclusion, and diversity seem to be doing so because they’re actually terrified that there might be real, substantive differences between people. Much as the European reaction to nationalistic fears in the postwar period led to a drive toward the dissolution of borders and differences of nationality inContinue reading “Why fear differences?”
Surviving the past and present through sex
One not well-understood way that men and women differ from one another is in their strategies for filling and defining roles. It is often noted that women occupy the great stable middle of social and personal distributions, while men occupy a larger portion of the extremes, both at the top and at the bottom. SoContinue reading “Surviving the past and present through sex”
Decriminalizing incest
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/04/17/consensual-incest-should-be-decriminalized-advocates-say/amp/ If you don’t read the article, the headline contains the essential argument. Consensual incest should be decriminalized. The one thing I can say in favor of this is that is that, yes, they are correct; based on the currently accepted arguments, there isn’t any particularly good reason why consentual incest shouldn’t be legal. OrContinue reading “Decriminalizing incest”
Are women better than men?
Are women better than men? That is certainly a question that seems to have some teeth. Men can be and are blamed for a lot of the pain in the world. And it’s not unusual to see the world and history characterized as innocent women and children trying to live their lives and wicked menContinue reading “Are women better than men?”
Cries of the men’s rights movement
On listening to the lament of a rapper on the state of men and their place in the family. I’m not one hundred percent sure what to say about all this. There’s surely a lot to learn about men from this, just as sociological data. I’m not sure that this is the most eloquent articulationContinue reading “Cries of the men’s rights movement”
On Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Summers
https://youtu.be/zxWOsUOsDyU I love these women. I grew up surrounded by smart, confident women. You can’t help but love and respect them, even when you do disagree. They’re both a delight, but Camille consistently makes me laugh out loud. She is one of rhe most entertaining people you could possible watch. I think if there’s anyContinue reading “On Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Summers”
Why politics is a male epiphenomenon
Males and female territories differ, and the way they police those territories differs. Men maintain wider territories but police them at a lower level of detail, but do so more confrontationally. Women maintain a smaller territory but at a very high level of detail, and do so with “soft power”, leveraging influence at many complexContinue reading “Why politics is a male epiphenomenon”
Sympathy across the sexes
I was heavily bullied and kicked around by the other boys (and girls) during my childhood. And I once was having a conversation with some women, who were complaining about men, and I mentioned that I knew what it felt like to be physically at someone else’s mercy and be thoughtlessly used for amusement andContinue reading “Sympathy across the sexes”
What women want
What women want, or at least what my wife wants, is to feel special and valuable and precious. To be a princess. For her, it’s a guilty pleasure, but it’s also obviously a deep motivation. To be seen or discovered to be or appreciated as or treated as if or to simply be a princess.Continue reading “What women want”
In defense of my criticism of WAP
I was wondering recently what would happen if I ever ran for political office, and what might come up when people inevitably connected me to my writings. I can imagine people criticizing me for my stance as a pro-family, pro-decency politician and pointing out my own tendency to talk about sex, and particularly quoting someContinue reading “In defense of my criticism of WAP”
Forbidden territory: polygamy
-Warning, all forbidden territory discussions are meant to be open, unfiltered, speculative explorations. They don’t represent a position, a suggestion, or a value to be embraced. They are an attempt to figure out what the arguments are for something that may be controversial, a sort of steelman exercise. Sometimes it’s helpful to think through questionsContinue reading “Forbidden territory: polygamy”
Why are humans so powerful?
What is a durable foundation for a life? What will last and create power, regardless of circumstances or technology? What is the fundamental mode of being that can make humans succeed and grow regardless of their situation? It cannot be something we invent, it must be something we already possess or possess access to, becauseContinue reading “Why are humans so powerful?”
Discrimination
The idea of discrimination is a tough one to crack. People use the word pejoratively, and use it specifically as a justification for the enactment of legal powers and penalties against organizations and individuals. In a purely common sense manner, though, there is no such thing as outlawing discrimination. All thought, all value assignment, allContinue reading “Discrimination”
Roommates vs Spouses
What is the difference between having a husband or wife and having a roommate? The two overlap, and it’s easy for one to slowly become another, especially as the passions of youth cool and life becomes more stable and predictable, as our daily lives become more about the regular effort required to maintain life thanContinue reading “Roommates vs Spouses”
Who has sexual advantage?
Men and women both have advantages and disadvantages in their respective approaches. It’s very easy to see the disadvantages of your approach when you’re dealing with the other, when you’re on the other side’s turf, their domains of special competence (whose very existence some people would no doubt deny today) and out of your element.Continue reading “Who has sexual advantage?”
Suicide, covid, and women
In response to the claim that the reason for the general increase in suicides (in Japan) during covid was due to women being stuck at home with abusive men. I asked, do they have data in that, or is that speculation? To which I received a very frosty glare and the rejoinder that people whoContinue reading “Suicide, covid, and women”
Who is the ideal modern feminist?
I heard a very curious argument from a transgender person today that is hard to respond to. He (or she, possibly, I’m going to assume he was intending to present as a she) was arguing that the whole point of feminism (as a movement) was to free the meaning of being a woman from theContinue reading “Who is the ideal modern feminist?”
Misandry and marketing
I’m getting really, really tired of previews for shows starring women that all center around the conceit of “that’s right, I’m X and I’m a woman!” and all the men are mysogynistic jerks and she’s the clever, modern person schooling them in how awesome she is compared to all those dumb men. And sometimes sheContinue reading “Misandry and marketing”
Coveting one another’s virtues and vices
Somehow our culture is obsessed with making virtues out of our vices. And we’re so eager to embrace them that we make our actual virtues and strengths into shameful weaknesses and vices. Women, on average, are more agreeable than men, but now publicly prize disagreeability and shame agreeability, as if women being proud of beingContinue reading “Coveting one another’s virtues and vices”
Making Nobody Happy 