Brooke Harrington

Personally, I'm not sure whether it's necessary for men to teach boys to be men: I don't know, having never been a man.

I have known MANY men who say the pain at the core of their lives is having been rejected or neglected by their fathers & other older males in their families. I believe them.

* so both fathers & mothers can & should parent their offspring

* but children have different needs at different periods of their lives

* rightly or wrongly, many--adults & kids--believe only men can teach boys how to be men

* if fathers abdicate that role for whatever reason, there's a problem

Quick response, as I'm about to get on an airplane:

* women usually do most of the child-rearing for kids of both sexes from infancy to adolescence

* in adolescence, the pressure on boys to "learn to be a man" seems to become very intense

* then the demand for parenting from fathers intensifies

Oh no...not the misogyny too! gdammit

Dumber. The population is going to be dumber.
The *content* of the university education, as well as the hiring of people who deliver that education, is now under MAGA control.
They're doing to US universities what Trump just did to BLS.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

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EXACTLY: anyone who's read Goffman (as you'd expect the editors of this special issue to have done) knows that all behavior involves calculated self-presentation, even in the "backstage" areas of life. It's not only a weird phrase for the editors to have used, it's nonsensical for a sociologist.

I think it’s telling that rather than funding a world that allows more people to be able to make art, the goal of the tech overlords is to plagiarize the history of the arts to get rid of human makers and technique while concentrating more wealth into the hands of a few. I don’t know how that’s good

Option 2. is usually trotted out by people who have zero interest in intersectionality but a great deal of interest in making women stfu.

Like the ancient joke about the economist walking down the street, seeing a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk, and just walking on by, because it must be a fake: "if it were a genuine $20, someone would have picked it up already."

An NCAA Pillow Fight league could help universities make up some of the funding cut by Trump.

I think it’s simple that a person who doesn’t do a thing and instead allows a machine to do it for them can’t claim to be part of the group or history of the profession. An artist who doesn’t make the art isn’t an artist. A writer who doesn’t write is not a writer. It’s not the ideas but the making.

What do you do with those who respond by claiming gender terrorism is a sideshow to the "real" ills of society?

The standard responses from the left are:

1. "no, the real problem is class"
or
2. "no, the real problem is racism, but you--a white woman--are trying to deny that by bringing up gender"

Robin Hanson Might Be America’s Creepiest Economist He seems to believe that men are owed sex, that women are devious about it, and that it's OK to lightly toy with questions about rape.

There's an economist who has proposed that women should do exactly that, for the good of society:
slate.com/business/201...

They have to capture a free range woman in order to score points in their male status competition game.

Exactly right.

I'll let her know that Batdog! said so. 😉

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Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

"It is a well-kept secret of US higher education that undergraduate students who have earned a degree in the humanities fare quite well on the job market."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

A deep cut, and such a good one.

I disagree: I think he FLAUNTS his incompetence and that of his flunkies, then dares anyone do to anything about it.

It's a raw demonstration of power for its own sake, like what one sees from schoolyard bullies.

Neil Postman was a prophet 40 years ago:

Yes. It's amazing how many societies won't even let mothers *eat* until everyone else is fed first. It's so bizarre and upside down.

The Granite State honoring the legacy of Sweden's Danuta Danielsson:

YOU'RE RIGHT! I got up in front of the UN last April and said that to an apparently nonplussed audience of diplomats. Said it on a bunch of podcasts, like those of @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @gilduran.com. It's chapter two of my most recent book. We've gotta keep yelling this from the rooftops.

The kissing part or the twirling part?

Is that the discourse? I thought it was: the right gives guys a scapegoat to blame for not getting laid.

Andrew Tate offers the "Dolchstoßlegende"--stab-in-the-back myth--of gender, demonizing women to help assuage the humiliation of guys who can't get all the sex to which they feel entitled.

I'm always amused at the fact that London is filled to the brim w/ street surveillance cameras but has a massively high rate of bicycle theft. All the surveillance means little if no one watches it. A lot of the data is simply useless, tracking bots, not people, & endlessly sold just for marketing.

K.