Who Speaks for a Culture?
It’s their culture” isn’t an argument. It’s a change of subject — from a practice to a people, and from a disagreement to a consensus that doesn’t exist
Critical thinkingA collection of 12 posts
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.
The Alpha Male Myth
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.
AI is not foolproof either.
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.
The Grass-Is-Greener Loop
Why the other tool, the other setup, the other way of doing it always looks cleaner than the one in your hands; and how to stop circling.
We are made to forget what we are eating
You are not asked to believe that animals are not killed for your dinner. You are simply…
Who I Am, Part Two: Why I’m a Feminist, and Why You Probably Should Be Too
There’s a particular kind of man who will tell you, with some pride, that he is not…