Tag: Sex
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In defense of my criticism of WAP
I was wondering recently what would happen if I ever ran for political office, and what might come up when people inevitably connected me to my writings. I can imagine people criticizing me for my stance as a pro-family, pro-decency politician and pointing out my own tendency to talk about sex, and particularly quoting some…
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Forbidden territory: polygamy
-Warning, all forbidden territory discussions are meant to be open, unfiltered, speculative explorations. They don’t represent a position, a suggestion, or a value to be embraced. They are an attempt to figure out what the arguments are for something that may be controversial, a sort of steelman exercise. Sometimes it’s helpful to think through questions…
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Why are humans so powerful?
What is a durable foundation for a life? What will last and create power, regardless of circumstances or technology? What is the fundamental mode of being that can make humans succeed and grow regardless of their situation? It cannot be something we invent, it must be something we already possess or possess access to, because…
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Discrimination
The idea of discrimination is a tough one to crack. People use the word pejoratively, and use it specifically as a justification for the enactment of legal powers and penalties against organizations and individuals. In a purely common sense manner, though, there is no such thing as outlawing discrimination. All thought, all value assignment, all…
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Roommates vs Spouses
What is the difference between having a husband or wife and having a roommate? The two overlap, and it’s easy for one to slowly become another, especially as the passions of youth cool and life becomes more stable and predictable, as our daily lives become more about the regular effort required to maintain life than…
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Who has sexual advantage?
Men and women both have advantages and disadvantages in their respective approaches. It’s very easy to see the disadvantages of your approach when you’re dealing with the other, when you’re on the other side’s turf, their domains of special competence (whose very existence some people would no doubt deny today) and out of your element.…
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Suicide, covid, and women
In response to the claim that the reason for the general increase in suicides (in Japan) during covid was due to women being stuck at home with abusive men. I asked, do they have data in that, or is that speculation? To which I received a very frosty glare and the rejoinder that people who…
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Who is the ideal modern feminist?
I heard a very curious argument from a transgender person today that is hard to respond to. He (or she, possibly, I’m going to assume he was intending to present as a she) was arguing that the whole point of feminism (as a movement) was to free the meaning of being a woman from the…
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Misandry and marketing
I’m getting really, really tired of previews for shows starring women that all center around the conceit of “that’s right, I’m X and I’m a woman!” and all the men are mysogynistic jerks and she’s the clever, modern person schooling them in how awesome she is compared to all those dumb men. And sometimes she…
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Coveting one another’s virtues and vices
Somehow our culture is obsessed with making virtues out of our vices. And we’re so eager to embrace them that we make our actual virtues and strengths into shameful weaknesses and vices. Women, on average, are more agreeable than men, but now publicly prize disagreeability and shame agreeability, as if women being proud of being…
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