Sadly, Porn

The complaint that media promotes impossible images that causes unrealistic expectations for the average person thus misses the point: they're not supposed to be possible for anybody, so that the only place you can find them is by coming back to the source. You can say it skews men’s desires, ok; but any woman who feels the pressure to look like th

In today's society, where are there places for a man to act “like a man”-- i.e. exert independent power of will, with visible results? Video games, sports betting and following the news are all socially acceptable answers, and not very satisfying. What's the result? “Out of nowhere-- he just snapped!” “Society's” “suppression” of “masculinity” is b

We want the corporate power to be even stronger, because it alone ensures a kind of world with rules, dress codes, appropriate behavior-- not just safety, but a place, a purpose, a title. Good enough, so long as we retain the public(izable) freedom to express ourselves sexually, which, not ironically, now requires restraints.

Victim blaming has been around for millennia,

What they want is that the job has more authority over our lives-- that it becomes a benevolent tyrant, that it publicly display its authority over us; and we cause this to be true by demanding or complaining that it is true. Of course, while we want corporate power to increase you yourself don’t want to work for a corporation. You are, after all,

Of course I'm not saying he can't be helped. I'm saying that he will not be able to change as long as you are in his life unchanged. You picked him, however he was put together; and he picked you because you'd accept it. A relationship is a new whole, not two parts. But if you keep talking about two people, then you aren't responsible.

the one sin that Jesus explicitly warns against over and over is hypocrisy, in this performative sense. Not “don’t pretend you’re good when you’re really not” but “don’t show anyone you are good.” Pray by yourself, be invisibly charitable, don't look for rewards for good acts. Well, what’s wrong with bragging a little, as long as you do what God wa

You can endure to hear others praised as long as you can persuade yourself you could have done some of what you heard. Past this point, envy comes in and declares it is false.

She pursues enjoyment in order to be satisfied; she pursues what she wants in order to avoid anxiety. Those are two very different force vectors with different magnitudes and directions, you should draw them out every time you make a decision of your own and see which of them is driving your purchases.