Sex Work, Looksmaxers, Mansplaining
Links and recommendations
From the archives:
The Hypocrisy of the New Upper Class
The Only Reading App I Use:
I’ve been using Readwise since April of 2021.
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter/X, you’ll know I regularly share screenshots like this from books or articles I’ve read:
These screenshots come from my Readwise app.
Readwise aggregates your reading highlights from various sources like Kindle, Apple Books, Substack, Twitter, and so on. It stores your highlights in one place, making it easier to stay on top of your reading.
Each morning, it emails me 8 random excerpts from different books I’ve read. Since 2021, that daily message has been a quiet ritual for me: fragments from books I half‑forgot are resurfaced, like my own past self giving me a tap on the shoulder.
Moreover, when I’m thinking about a particular topic, a quick search pulls up not just my notes but every highlighted Kindle passage I’ve ever saved on the topic.
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I suspect, like me, you’ll wonder how you ever read without it.
Links and recommendations:
The Political Causes of Higher Education’s Decline by Kevin Wallsten
Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the Reading Unlock by Trungphan2
Who Would Agree to Have Sex With a Stranger? by David P. Schmitt
Socializing Alone (!) by Roy Baumeister
The One Role Gen Z Women Still Want Men to Play by Wendy Wang
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Three interesting findings:
1. South Korea has spent more than $200 billion since 2006 on programs to reward parenthood, with cash awards for the birth of a baby, parental leave that lasts a year, and subsidized childcare. Nothing has worked. (source: The Origin of Politics by Nicholas Wade).
2. 71% of Democrats, 83% of Independents, and 95% of Republicans say photo ID should be required to vote. (source).
3. Women react more negatively to interruptions or patronizing explanations when they come from a man rather than a woman, even when they’re otherwise identical. They’re also more likely to attribute these behaviors to gender bias when they come from a man. (source; h/t Steve Stewart-Williams)
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You should debate DeepLeftAnalysis! He wrote this about you: deepleft.substack.com/p/against-the-conservative-longhouse
You clearly have some fundamentally irreconcilable beliefs about elitism and it would be enlightening to see what those are, and what it reveals about temperamental conservatives vs. temperamental liberals.
The real question is why women would attribute verbal mistreatment to "mansplaining" when it might not be the case. This is probably extensible to other misogynistic acts.
What does the commentariat think?