Thinking about it more, there's a cultural contempt for men's sexual desire at the same time that it's ruthlessly cultivated that I haven't quite got my head around.

I watched The Substance recently.

It ain’t healthy.

Bonus Round) I almost never see criticism of the damage done to those of us in high testosterone hormone environments by employing insincere sexual provocations as commercial advertisement.

2) The proposed solution to these crises always seem to double down on reclaiming traditional, stereotypical versions of masculinity as opposed to questioning what the term actually means.

To be clear, this deal still needs to go through a debate and amendment process and more 60-vote thresholds to pass the Senate, and then it must pass the House. There's still room for constituent pressure.

Guilty as charged.

But I’ll hold up Haldeman’s Forever War as a great use of relativity and time dilation as a metaphor for other kinds of displacement.

“Fetch”?

The closest I can get is that people freak all the way out when you ask them to question their taxonomies. But I can't figure why that's the case...

Ooh. They could work harder on that second part. If they thought they were keeping it quiet.... 😬

I saw that James Watson has passed on, and I remembered the old joke:

Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notebook.

Probably quite simplistic, but it is a shame her contributions to science get so little attention.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

And add to that an executive who has decided that allocated money can be reallocated on a whim, making any previous agreements pointless.

Nah, that wasn't ignorance of his name. That was straight up my inability to spell.

That's why I ain't a copyeditor.