I had exiled that entire moment to a dank corner of my mind palace

is that a safety pin? in the year of our lord 2025?

‘take your anti-depressant,’ my psychiatrist says. lady I was raised a Protestant, I am here to inflict maximum psychic damage on myself, then die

having read it, yes, I think that’s what she’s driving at. the broader project is to convince women that autonomy violates their essential biological nature as birth-givers. This is how we were designed. She doesn’t seem to know (or care) what autonomy means when it’s deployed by the left

It’s not really a matter of intelligence vs. stupidity. But the standards are not as rigorous, so people get lazy. They’re rewarded for compliance. And the movement is flush with money so there are real incentives to dumb yourself down

She tries to turn it into this judo move about how both the left and the right are disrespectful of pregnant women, but I'm...mostly confused by what she's saying? This is a podcast transcript, I get it, she's talking off the cuff, but what does this mean exactly?

yeah. imagine how hard you have to try in order to be an asshole even by the standards of organized atheism

she had a reputation in atheist circles for being fairly arrogant (and a bit of a sophist, too). conversion didn’t change her that much, I think!

It’s older but I like it. (My husband is from the area.) I think someone mentioned Mitch Horowitz in the thread and I’d recommend his work too

A Shopkeeper’s Millennium is set in Rochester but it’s sort of about this!

Thank you so much!!