Lonely for the Wrong Reason
The manosphere is closer to right about the feeling than its critics admit, and much further from right about the cause than its followers ever check.
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The manosphere is closer to right about the feeling than its critics admit, and much further from right about the cause than its followers ever check.
Paper wins the comparison you imagine. Digital wins the one that actually happens.
The ‘alpha male’ is borrowed from a debunked wolf study its own author disowned — and it gets the cause of attraction backwards. Here’s why having genuine passions, not performing dominance, is what actually works.
Our intuitions quietly give up somewhere past a few thousand. Here is what a billion actually looks like.
Nine years ago, I wrote that search engines look for relevance, not truth. The box answers you directly now, and the problem didn’t go away — it got quieter.
We already refuse to farm our most vulnerable. Consistency asks us to mean it.
Water infrastructure has no news cycle. That is the whole problem.