Sitemap - 2024 - Sex and the State

Cheers to a (California) sober 2025

Western masculinity as Chinese foot binding

Why I keep talking about “bottom-half” men

Cathy reads books: Tribalism is Dumb

Why I’m back on OnlyFans

Self-serving bias, ingroup bias, and what the left forgets about bottom-half men

Bottom-half marriage is a completely different institution

Abolishing gender is not transphobic!

Us feminists really did kill marriage

Sexists fear women

How the gender pay gap gave me empathy for men

Why “the media” misleads everyone about feminism

Fear makes men stupid and anti-feminist

I am the solution to polarization

The Sex and the State 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Radical feminism is not the most feminist kind of feminism

Two reasons to care about boys and men

Why I buy the male victimhood narrative

Being a problem is better than Xanax

Too many of you care too much about sex

What I learned from being a nanny for a week

The New York Times is lowkey anti-gender

What just happened?

A shockingly ignorant timeline

I was wrong about bottom-half men causing low fertility

Why real men look like trash

Most women don't realize how much dating sucks for men

Spend time with people you like and want to emulate

Can we all just agree that it's weird and dumb that we still have girl jobs and boy jobs?

Demand for male breadwinners exceeds supply

We are all very ignorant about every aspect of abuse

The main difference between a fantasy and a plan

Marriage lets society wash our hands of our worst men

Conservatives are doomed to long for what they think is history

GOP policy innovation: Let's screw the poor and the economy

Maybe marriage is down because men are getting worse

Eleven years after “The Rise of the Matriarchy”

What Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance have in common with rural incels

Men are struggling to adapt to female hegemony

When companies act like states

Say his name, Rachel Maddow

Activism update: September 2024

Maybe sex is to gender as skin color is to race

Fun facts about 45+, non-college white women in battleground states

Sex and gender are different. And it matters

What am I doing with my life?

What is the point of men?

What's the point of masculinity?

The trouble with free tampons

The asshole theory of fertility

I'm a radical firebrand for basic economic literacy

DNC thots

Top-level thoughts on the 2024 DNC

I'm at the DNC

The misogyny is for losers

Watch men lose status to women in five charts

I'm trying to understand liberalism's assumptions

Is fear-based messaging effective?

How status anxiety fuels misogyny

What the abortion fight really means

On queerness and southern cities

Kamala Harris is a normal Republican

Parental age might explain why boys and men are failing

TFW the worst person you know makes a good point

Growth is required, if not good

Here's where I'm supposed to have a take

Stop promoting women (who aren't me) part 2

Stop promoting women (who aren't me) part 1

Lessons in gender discrimination: The Apple lawsuit

Lefties and Democrats: It's time to embrace power

The (reader survey) results are in!

Bay Area people have figured a few things out

Learn to code

Mo success, different problems

Happy Juneteenth. The job isn't done.

Look, ma. I found a hobby

Why I had meeting at the White House

Modeling was absolutely the dream

I was wrong about geographic mobility

On drinking, driving, and loneliness

Tell me about yourself!

Learning how to walk!

The best form of demon exorcise is the one you actually do

"One very passionate resident"

Maybe I do want to be famous?

Happy Pride! Gay sex is boring

Update for Maeve

Fuck your white picket fence

I spent the currency of youth, and I enjoyed it

Marx has a few words for the pro-shrinkage community

No more Mrs. Nice Gal

Getting back to my Diaryland roots

Rural defense team: Crime part 2

Rural defense team: Crime

My parents were amazing, actually

5 things to look for when choosing where to raise your kids

Where you raise your kids really matters

Breaking: US rural life is diverse

Rural life sucks part 6: Driving

Rural life sucks part 5: Employment

Mental health in modern agriculture, a documentary review: Part 2

Mental health in modern agriculture, a documentary review

Absolutely killing it at being sad

Controversial opinion: Social conservatives aren't bad

Baby's first metal show

Hell and prison fail for the same reason

Breaking: People use religion for vain, dumb, selfish ends

Rural life sucks, part 5: Local journalism

Rural life sucks, part 4: Governance

Rural life sucks, part 3: Environment

The reality of rural life

Rural life sucks, part 2: Health

Rural life sucks, part 1: Defining our terms

The case for shifting away from politics and toward policy

Drain the swamp? Drain the sticks.

How K-12 helps explain how rural America came to suck

What to do with rural voters

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Whoring

Fuck rural America?

The actual two Americas

The social cost of earbuds

I am biased about Evangelical extremism

The case for admitting when I'm wrong

The case for marrying someone you vibe with

Kitty Stryker on the limits of "consent culture"

Thots on the Oxford school shooter parents going to prison

Walking in Memphis

Is marriage good?

The Proust Questionnaire

Rape in sex-positive, feminist spaces

Misogyny and the Political Divide

My parents were good, actually

Authoritarianism is not a mental illness

Cathy Reisenwitz on Authoritarianism and the Psychology of Power

Does this outfit make you feel rapey?

My cognitive dissonance got louder than my survival instinct

It's not personal until it's personal

I didn't misunderstand. That shit really happened.

We're on a break

Racism and sexism, status games, and affirmative action

Unpopular opinion: More rape for less gay sex is a bad trade

Josh Hawley is why I'm a technocrat

Explaining the Evangelical church’s relationship to rape and rapists

Democracy needs a little less participation

Authoritarians and their shitty childhoods

Is authoritarianism inherently anti-social?

Authoritarians and the games they play

Activism update

More evidence linking Evangelical Christianity with belief in female idiocy, etc.

How Evangelical Christianity facilitates belief in female idiocy

How dumb women contribute to rural female brain drain and belief in female idiocy

Good news about getting old

Belief in female idiocy explains the urban/rural divide

H4H 28: We’re moving in a new direction

Monogamy stans stay obsessed with sex

Becoming a small-town girl

How my moral intuitions have evolved

H4H 27: More than you ever wanted to know about guardianships

Cash rules less around me than I realized

A thot with thoughts on syphilis

I am not one of those marketers (mournfully)

H4H26: A listener sounds off!

A fate worse than death?

I've got shit on my mind

The argument for ass whoopings > prison

H4H 25: Guy Sotomayor on what exactly the Madison County Commission Chairman does

You're not really fighting about cat licking

A brief primer on medical misogyny

Activism update

H4H 24: We respond to your comments!

We Chose Violence, Redefined

Are environmental contaminants making us less hornt?

Why were the 90’s hornier than today?

For the last fucking time, hookup culture is a myth

Why I am not an environmentalist

A post-labor society is the ultimate cure for male drift

What will Ozempic mean for thin people?

H4H 23: Jordan Neely died for want of a conservatorship

The last TV Tuesday

I'm sorry, can we reschedule this mental breakdown?

Let the sad times roll(ing)!

We both err, but in opposite directions

H4H 22: Rika Shipley on Huntsville Police and homelessness

TV Tuesdays 51: Molly and the music visualizer

“Protestant work ethic” is out. Vibe popes are in.

Why psychedelics effectively treat depression

My Thoughts on...ahem...Tripping Balls

H4H 21: Zach Anderson on Section 8 expansion

TV Tuesdays 50: Spirited

Tripping into 2024