Justice for All

Lactation for men, of course. But also: at age 50, all men go on mandatory testosterone blockers until age 85. Women go on birth control pills during the first 35 years of sexual activity---ages 15 to 50, roughly---at great personal expense, most notably their very libidos, in order provide abundant, no-consequence sex for men. It's only fair, then, that men alter their hormonal balance in order to accommodate post-menopausal female sexuality.

There would probably be some sub-optimal side-effects, of course. But the same is true of birth-control pills. Fair is fair.

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Science and Feminism

From the LAT, on science's changing relationships with the political left and right, here. No mention of feminism, which would undermine the argument that the left is now the friend of science: feminism is left, but still pretty hostile to science.

McDonalds Hookup

Apropos of Charlotte Simmon, this from the Washington Post.

And this.

Hookup sex culture is like fast food culture: whereas food and sex were once part of the formalized ways of organizing human relationships and interactions, they are now part of the amorphous, informal human practice that bubbles up in the place of overturned cultural mores. The bubbles work pretty efficiently to make food and sex abundant for all. But humans didn't evolve in enviroments of abundance, and surfeit may produce a new set of problems.

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Pinker Time

It's funny how much more viscerally I disliked Pinker after I saw his photo on Wikipedia. Something about it really turned me off.

Anyway, here he is again, this time in Time.

Gentlemen prefer corsets

Is this the future of comparative literature? Sure hope not.