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The radical feminism of the Great Feminization
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New Substack post: we’ve all heard about the Great Feminization article and we’ve all delighted at how badly even friendly conversations went for its author. Now we ask the question: is Helen Andrews just wrong, or is she interestingly wrong?
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Adam Corolla is the textbook example of why divorce protections are important for nonworking spouses - he used to brag routinely on his show about how his wife didn't have to work because he earned so much. It was a point of pride for him that she quit her job when they got married.
They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Adam Corolla is the textbook example of why divorce protections are important for nonworking spouses - he used to brag routinely on his show about how his wife didn't have to work because he earned so much. It was a point of pride for him that she quit her job when they got married.
i feel like headlien stuff is usually just ragebait but about the great feminization thing the nyt changing it from "did women ruin the workplace" to "did liberal feminism ruin the workplace" is extremely cowardly and completely dishonest about the content of the conversation
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
i feel like headlien stuff is usually just ragebait but about the great feminization thing the nyt changing it from "did women ruin the workplace" to "did liberal feminism ruin the workplace" is extremely cowardly and completely dishonest about the content of the conversation
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
pickleball was supposed to be this...
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
pickleball was supposed to be this...
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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I hate that I understand this reference. Am I too online?
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I hate that I understand this reference. Am I too online?
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Mia Thermopolis backed Genovexit
Enough space politics, its time to consider why the country of Genovia from the Princess Diaries is almost monolingually English speaking and what its relationship is to the EU, particularly given it is technically an absolute monarchy
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Mia Thermopolis backed Genovexit
post material politics believers when the price of eggs (material) is more important than the president covering up a pedophile sex trafficking ring (non material)
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
post material politics believers when the price of eggs (material) is more important than the president covering up a pedophile sex trafficking ring (non material)
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we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6
what's his problem with the huguenots
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
what's his problem with the huguenots
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I am intrigued by terms like 'yookay', 'freshies' and also 'Boriswave' now being used in a completely offhand manner by writers and journos
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am intrigued by terms like 'yookay', 'freshies' and also 'Boriswave' now being used in a completely offhand manner by writers and journos
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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bill kristol followed me, fuck it, we're oomfies now
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
bill kristol followed me, fuck it, we're oomfies now
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I recognize that this is technically written in the language in which I am fluent but it means absolutely nothing to me
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I recognize that this is technically written in the language in which I am fluent but it means absolutely nothing to me
doing a "watto is a character designed to make children sympathize with the indigenous jewish population of israel" bit and getting 70,000 death threats in return
Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
doing a "watto is a character designed to make children sympathize with the indigenous jewish population of israel" bit and getting 70,000 death threats in return
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Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
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I understand that this is controversial but I think that women are oppressed as women and should organize on behalf of their gendered self-interest.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I understand that this is controversial but I think that women are oppressed as women and should organize on behalf of their gendered self-interest.
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been a couple other things that make me think China is cracking down on lgbt (mostly in HK, because that’s becoming a PRC city at this point)
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
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latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
been a couple other things that make me think China is cracking down on lgbt (mostly in HK, because that’s becoming a PRC city at this point)
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i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
i honestly do not know what major company in america isnt involved in some ghastly shit at this point? i just would not *do* the ghastly shit yourself.
are we shaming people for having worked for companies that did ghastly shit elsewhere but far away organizationally because I'll be the first to say I ran a poop plant for a company that was/is major defense contractor and I'm pretty sure was involved with NEOM and *am* sure works with the UAE
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
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The massacre of the ethics/safety teams and the internal reorientation away from anything that hinted at broader purpose (with exception for the more profitable bits of natsec) is a story that has yet to be properly told.
there was an incredibly stark change at my job between 2023 and 2025. just absolutely day and night.
i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The massacre of the ethics/safety teams and the internal reorientation away from anything that hinted at broader purpose (with exception for the more profitable bits of natsec) is a story that has yet to be properly told.
anglophone libral elites trying to not bend over for fascism for longer than 5 seconds
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
anglophone libral elites trying to not bend over for fascism for longer than 5 seconds
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Again, we are talking about a movie that prominently features Jar Jar Binks.
How shocking that a writer for The New York Times is so pissy about a trilogy of movies that deal with political corruption
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Again, we are talking about a movie that prominently features Jar Jar Binks.
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I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)
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also he's pathetically unable to say anything actually interesting or memorable about them or that indicates he had some kind of human reaction.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
also he's pathetically unable to say anything actually interesting or memorable about them or that indicates he had some kind of human reaction.