Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell
I have heard the following from a bunch of people, one of whom was me six months ago: “I keep on reading all these posts by really smart people who identify as Reactionaries, and I don’t have any idea...
View ArticleMy objections to “objectification”
Ozy keeps writing about objectification, which ze seems to use synonymously with “fetishization”. I had high hopes ze would finally be the person who uses that word in a way that makes sense, so I can...
View ArticlePolyamory Is Boring
[Trigger warning: people in happy loving relationships.] I. I explained polyamory to my father last week when we met in Utah. He just shrugged and said “I guess I’m too old-fashioned for that sort of...
View ArticleArguments About Male Violence Prove Too Much
[CONTENT WARNING: rape, violent crime, racism] [EDIT HISTORY: This piece was widely circulated and critiqued after first being published, and I received a lot of feedback, some of which was good and...
View ArticleI do not understand “rape culture”
Trigger warning: discussion of rape Someone brought up “rape culture” in the comments to my last post. Now I really should stop criticizing feminist ideas, because doing so is both mind-numbing and...
View ArticleSocial Justice For The Highly-Demanding-Of-Rigor
My last two posts have led to a lot of anti-feminist activists getting linked to my blog, so this would be a more hilarious time than usual to write the next post in my series of arguments against...
View ArticleLiterally Inconceivable: Contraceptives And Abortion Rates
I have amazing parents who would never do something sneaky like install a keylogger on my computer to keep tabs on me as I move thousands of miles away from home. But if I’m wrong and they did do that,...
View ArticleSocial Psychology Is A Flamethrower
Mark Twain: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. If this is true of all science, it is doubly true of...
View ArticleGiving and Accepting Apologies
“Saying ‘I’m sorry’ is the same as saying ‘I apologize.’ Except at a funeral.” – Demetri Martin Today was the Day of Atonement. As an atheist, I find it hard to appreciate atonement in its cosmic,...
View ArticleThe Anti-Reactionary FAQ
0: What is this FAQ? This is the Anti-Reactionary FAQ. It is meant to rebut some common beliefs held by the political movement called Reaction or Neoreaction. 0.1: What are the common beliefs of the...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞)
(see also parts 1, 2, and 3 of ∞) Some friends of mine on Facebook were talking about rape (as you do), and one of them brought up how anti-rape public awareness campaigns targeting men have been found...
View ArticleA Response To Apophemi on Triggers
[content warning: discussion of triggers. Mentions various triggers. Mentions, without using or condoning, racial slurs] I. I originally planned not to respond to Apophemi’s essay requesting that...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞)
[content warning: rape, false rape allegations] (see also parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of ∞) I. Spotted on Brute Reason but liked and reblogged 35,000 times: Five Things More Likely To Happen To You Than Being...
View ArticleTypical Mind and Disbelief In Straight People
Lots of no doubt very wise people avoid comment threads here, but the comments on Universal Human Experiences are really worth it. The post was about how people mistake their own unique and individual...
View ArticleSomeone Writes An Anti-Racist FAQ
The Anti-Racialist Q&A – inspired by my own Anti-Reactionary FAQ and written by blogger The Prussian on SkepticInk – is an astounding essay. It’s astounding because it is a piece of writing about...
View ArticleThe Wonderful Thing About Triggers
[Content note: hypothetical spiders] I complain a lot about the social justice movement. Or for a change, I sometimes complain that the media is too friendly to the social justice movement. So when the...
View ArticleLiving By The Sword
[Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, scary Internet mobbing.] [Try not to link to this everywhere because I feel bad about discussing it and don't want to spread it to more of the Internet than it has to...
View ArticleInvisible Women
A commenter asked in yesterday’s discussion on The Two-Income Trap: why did the entry of women into the workforce produce so little effect on GDP? Here’s the graph of US women’s workforce...
View ArticleSocial Justice And Words, Words, Words
[Content note: hostility toward social justice, discussion of various prejudices] “Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through. First from him, now from you. Is that all you...
View ArticleOzy’s Anti Heartiste FAQ
[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Ozy Frantz. I do not necessarily endorse everything it says, but I do contingently agree with a lot of it. Content note for profanity, social justice stuff,...
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