Sex and the State

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Gender is an abyss of pain
A week or so ago, I bawled while listening to Ruth Whippman interview Francesca Cavallo.
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Maybe, in 2025, a feminist looks like a gender abolitionist
I, once again, find myself unable to stop thinking about a question Cartoons Hate Her recently asked.
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Stop saying “toxic masculinity”
Toxic masculinity does not exist.
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Are single women just better people?
Gotta hand it to Cartoons Hate Her. She’s asking the real questions.
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Stop sending boys to college
The Trump admin is about to restart garnishing wages for some of the five million Americans currently defaulting on their student loans.
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Free trade created your precious “traditional family”
The right is trying to kill global trade to protect the “traditional family.”
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Cathy solves K-12: Get the fuck out
I have a public policy idea that can boost fertility, alleviate the education boy crisis, save school districts hella money, and reduce demand for the…
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April 2025

Democrats: Stop talking about welfare
I have a lot to say about the Progressive Policy Institute retreat I attended in Denver, Colorado this past weekend.
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Gender fucks men: Rape edition
I’m starting to wonder whether the concept of gender hurts men more than women.
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Tokyo taught me to have fun
On one of the nine nights we were in Tokyo, my friend and I watched a British public television show about Japan.
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How many bottom-half men can the US profitably employ?
Friend of the newsletter (actual, not sarcastic) Nick gave me some thoughts on Why not retvrn men to subsistence farming? He starts out by admitting…
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Why not retvrn men to subsistence farming?
The GOP is actively trying to impoverish the entire globe in the vain hope that a few low-skill, low-education Rust Belt male swing voters will return…
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