Sublime

One might assume “girl” identity as a way to show naysayers just how clever girls actually are, or to show men how unserious those things to which they ascribe such importance may be. Claiming that something that is supposed to be “for boys” — say, baseball, the Grateful Dead, Karl Ove Knausgaard — is really “for girls,” is like a pinprick into a b

He had really become, at 32 or 33, the ruined middle-aged man that he already seemed on the cusp of becoming in youth.

intractable

It was a voice you could snag your sweater on, or perhaps chip one of your teeth, but it was also sweet enough to suck on, to sleep with in your mouth.

I was eighteen, in love with my moral compass, perpetually suspicious of anyone whose words came too easily.

From a young age, these boys speculated on their own legacy and critics eagerly bought their stock before they matured. But the importance of women is recognized belatedly.

The press gave significantly less ink to the latent misogyny bubbling up inside of tech companies, and the libertarian view that enabled tech figureheads to unwittingly enable these same biases.

the culture wars—as the vociferous debates over race, religion, gender, and school curricula were called during the 1980s and 1990s—have