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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2h

Tucker disagrees: "the ass-kissing is what kills you… it’s not adversity that destroys men, it’s comfort and flattery that destroys men." Fuentes insists men aren't being ass-kissed enough and women don't even cook anymore, etc. Is this a generational changing of the guard in right-wing America
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2h

But Fuentes insists it's women's fault. He misquotes Spengler (Decline of the West) saying men make history, and women are history, not realizing this makes Tucker's point. Then gives his evidence, from TV and Ayn Rand:
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When you look at your favorite TV shows, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, it’s like the wife is the villain, cuz it’s like the main character -- if the wife could just get out of the way -- would be running the show, and that’s kind of how I feel. Like Ayn Rand, I agree with her about this, she said that the wife’s role is like hero worship. The guy is the hero, the guy is supposed to be the entrepreneur, the conqueror, whatever, and the woman is really supposed to support the man’s goals and be in his world.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2h

Interesting difference of opinion in Tucker Carlson's interview with Fuentes. Fuentes says the gender problem is because women are feminists. Tucker says that's men's fault, they need to make women happy by showing leadership at home, like in the Bible:
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I mean if there’s real leadership at home – I don’t know a single happily married woman who’s liberal, not one. I know a lot of married women, I’m 56 – all the women I know are married. And every happily married woman is non-liberal. I can’t even imagine – there’s no category for happily-married, middle-aged liberal woman. There’s never been one. So maybe the job is to make a girl happy, and all this nonsense ends.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2h

Thanks for sharing this!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4h

Some fertility rates are apparent in social life. Crude birth rate is how many people are babies. Completed fertility is how many children women middle-aged women have. Total fertility rate is not. A given TFR can look like many different social patterns. It does not correspond to common perception.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5h

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...

www.thecrimson.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

That this vile man yet today stands before a classroom at Harvard is a stain on the entire institution.

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...

www.thecrimson.com

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5h

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...

www.thecrimson.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7h

I would have predicted a greater drop. We'll see! Thanks

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 7h

"The number of international students applying to study at U.S. colleges next year has fallen 9 percent so far, according to data collected from students who applied using the Common Application by Nov. 1." (via @washingtonpost.com) www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Line chart showing a recent decrease in the number of foreign students applying to U.S. colleges and universities through the Common Application. The chart is based on a Washington Post analysis of data from the Common Application.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7h

Folks dying to cancel Raskin for this might listen to the whole thought, starting with the premise of Dems being a tent for, "anyone who wants to stand up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights today," and through to another list of positions MTG would never endose. Sheesh.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 9h

"Inspired by" only. One reason I take the firm line, though, is that students don't always know enough about us to know where the comments are heading. (Related to an old conversation about whether we can be "friends" with our students, to which I have said yes but some insist not.)

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Go for it! At least 10 men agree with you, judging by the likes 👍

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Tip on being human for faculty men:

Things never to mention to any student, unless directly asked: their clothing, their bodies, their romantic lives. Ever. (Even new hair and outfits, obvious pregnancies, engagement rings, etc.) They will bring it up if they want your opinion. It's not that hard.

Nifferama @nifferama.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah as a woman who has fended off comments from men and women about my outfits throughout my career no matter what I wore I’m here to second your comment. If you look too nice in something they’ll tell you you look too sexy to be serious but if you dress as I did at one point in overly large

Nifferama @nifferama.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah as a woman who has fended off comments from men and women about my outfits throughout my career no matter what I wore I’m here to second your comment. If you look too nice in something they’ll tell you you look too sexy to be serious but if you dress as I did at one point in overly large

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d

Couple things in Brighton that I don't see at home

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

“We analyzed 47000 conversations that people had with ChatGPT. We’re pretty sure we don’t have consent for a lot of them. So we are reproducing screenshots here.”

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT conversations are private by default, but users can create a link to share them with others.
Public chats do not display a username or other information about the person who shared them.
The Post downloaded 93,268 shared chats preserved in the Internet Archive, from June 2024 to August this year. The analysis focused on the 47,000 conversations that were primarily in English.
It's possible many of the people who shared the conversations did not realize they would be publicly preserved online. In July, OpenAI removed an option to make shared conversations discoverable via Google search, saying people had accidentally made some chats public.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d

This I did not know

1913
Five people live in central Vienna and visit the same cafes: Stalin, Freud, Tito, Trotsky and Hitler.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d

Yes, thought it was cuz I'm in England?

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Good question from @jamellebouie.net. The vice president of the United States has embedded himself in far-right communities and spouts extremist claims about blood and belonging. Why hasn't he been asked to explain his connections to the far right and why has he not yet disavowed Nick Fuentes?

Here’s my question for you: You can parse all the rhetoric you’d like, but what is the actual, practical difference between Vance’s call for the removal and potential expropriation of “illegal” immigrants — defined in terms of ethnic and racial difference — and Fuentes’s vision of a white ethno-state in what is now the United States?

They look about the same to me.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d

Climate change protest in Brighton, England today

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