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Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on.
Kate Manne • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
The language, abuse, and moral bankruptcy of porn shape and mold popular culture. And there is a direct line from the heartlessness and usury of the culture of porn to the hookup parties on college campuses, in which young men and women get hammered, have sex, and do not speak to each other again.
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
If the American church thinks
Russell D. Moore • Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
My extensive reading on How the Privileged Guilty Left Fucked Things Up taught me:
Periods of elite overproduction and the resulting status anxiety lead to Awokenings. Women are being overproduced this time in unprecedented numbers without ‘hard’ valuable skills in the labor market. This creates an incentive for the HR-ification of everything.
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Many people in the West today are not comfortable talking in terms like good or evil. In our increasingly secular societies, many people seem to think that such words are part of the past—too reductive an idea for our far more subtle and understanding times. We are even used to the notion that criminals in our society who do terrible things must ha
... See moreDouglas Murray • On Democracies and Death Cults
In The Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt chart a dramatic decrease in young people’s resilience and ability to cope with difficult ideas and hurt feelings. The authors do not belittle these struggles, but emphasize that they are a painful consequence of the acceptance of three “Great Untruths.” These are the belief that people are
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
It is obviously essential to justice that unsectarian education should cut both ways; and that if the orthodox must cut out the statement that he has a Divine origin, the materialist must cut out the statement that man has a wholly and exclusively bestial origin. The difficulty arises from the combination of the widening of education with the exclu
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