Personally, I’d prescribe more time for boys in mixed environments where they are encouraged to build social and emotional skills and expected interact with girls as equals. Build on the good that mostly mixed schooling has already done.

Yeah, a lot of this isn’t about the formation of men as men, so much as it’s about our failure to form men as people. Being able to hear criticism and recognise it isn’t directed at you personally is a basic level of emotional maturity that everyone should acquire.

(A lot of people would say a left wing manosphere is impossible on its face. I’m not one of them because, well, there are plenty of deeply misogynist communists out there. But it would be bad and we shouldn’t have one.)

I mean sure, but it’s not feasible to shield boys from hearing complaints about men altogether - it simply isn’t going to happen. The challenge is to raise boys who can contextualise what they are hearing and why. That isn’t going to come from any version of the manosphere, left wing or otherwise.

(Thanks for not dismissing me out of hand, by the way - seen a lot of people doing that today).

That’s part of the problem, definitely. The other half of it is that while there is a lot of talk and inquiry into boy’s/young men’s media diet, there is much less about girls/young women’s. Again, there’s a question of collective priorities here.

It wouldn’t, but there’s definitely a question of priorities here. Women’s rights are being eroded at speed and we only seem able to address that sideways via a conversation about men’s feelings.

That isn’t a reason to stop describing reality.

What do you think 12 year old girls are hearing about themselves? How do you think that makes them feel and affects their trajectories in life?

Respectfully, this is nothing in comparison to the cultural pervasiveness of misogyny. Why doesn’t that provoke the same sense of moral/political crisis?

It can’t by anyone reading in good faith, which is sadly the point,

(Yes, I know that none of those things has anything to do with the overseas domestic worker visa, but a sentence like ‘people should do their own (…) childcare’ is too good an opportunity for the internet as it is not to run with.

I absolutely agree, but just so you’re aware, if this picks up traction people are absolutely going to read it as a call to shut nurseries/attack on working women/disabled people who need support at home. It would be a nasty misreading and not fair, but it’s going to happen.

The whole thread is a work of art, in its own way. The same old argument that cheap power is actually expensive and expensive power is actually cheap, tricked out with graphs and published in the Economist so sensible people can justify believing it.

Except that CfD strike prices are lower than wholesale prices, and have been for some time. The actual picture is the precise opposite of what you present here.

Except the reasons we have failed to build new nuclear generation for decades aren’t regulatory or political (all the major political parties are at least notionally in favour). It’s that nuclear is bloody expensive. Far more expensive than offshore wind, which is an odd fact to elide here.

Alternative suggestion: the Roman Empire as a whole fell in 217.

This so much. What if instead of designing a means-tested specialist service, we just… gave people enough money to meet the additional costs of disability?

In general, I think as counterintuitive as it might feel, the climate/conservation/clean energy worlds provide the clearest alternative visions of the future to ‘fascist tech lords rule forever’ not least because they already take technological change seriously.

The thing that most interests me is that the people I know who are most consistently retaining some kind of optimism/drive are clean energy/renewables people, and it’s exactly because despite many setbacks (esp in the US) they really do have a vision of a better future they are contributing to.

In general, I think as counterintuitive as it might feel, the climate/conservation/clean energy worlds provide the clearest alternative visions of the future to ‘fascist tech lords rule forever’ not least because they already take technological change seriously.

The thing that most interests me is that the people I know who are most consistently retaining some kind of optimism/drive are clean energy/renewables people, and it’s exactly because despite many setbacks (esp in the US) they really do have a vision of a better future they are contributing to.

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For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%.

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The only reason accessible housing gets built at all is regulation.

Given that we’ve established that at least some of the urbanist movement thinks having basic cooking facilities is an unnecessary luxury, the odds they can be trusted with anything more complicated appear quite slim.

Which is the only moral position, but doesn’t just apply here. Food prices in general in the UK are kept down by horrendous labour exploitation.

We can provide adequate housing without building slums. We’ve done it before. This is ridiculous.

It’s also common here for landlords to break houses up into ‘studios’ (really bedsits) with a kitchenette at best. I lived myself for two years in a place where my kitchen was a converted cupboard I could barely use due to my disability. Further deregulation would be disastrous.

And yes. I don’t know where you live, but I live in the UK, where the quality of private rented accommodation is a national scandal. I’ve spoken to clients who had no working plumbing for months and seen rental advertisements for literal cupboards. This is not the moment to lower standards.