Reverse Hostage Negotiation and Sex Maoism w/ Nina Power

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Nina Power under the auspices that we represent competing factions in the battle of the sexes and—through our leadership, temperament, and ability to harness language—we are uniquely qualified to set the tone and timbre of peace negotiations between our two sides.

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• Do women increase their status by associating motherhood with victimhood?

• Nina's idea that a society that seeks to eliminate tragedy creates the most tragedy

• Were vikings pro-epidural?

• Do men of letters dislike women more than men with STEM backgrounds?

• Taylor Lorenz vs. Katherine Dee

• Turning the battle of the sexes into a game

• Jared Klickstein (not Jamie Killstein) and Crooked Smile

• Ivan Illich

• La dolce vita

• Gay men's influence on women

• The role of gay men in the future of male/female relationships

• Gordon Voidwell

• Voluntary segregation

• Female anxiety about being left out

• Reactionary feminists (like Louise Perry and Mary Harrington)

• Morally satisfying justice vs. realistic justice

• The shot caller method of group representation

• Is wage-gap discourse losing steam?

• Women vs. business-owners

• Are men held accountable for differences in female biology

• The importance of secular argumentation

• AP's Maoist approach to peacekeeping

• Are boys responsible for the myth that they have cooties?

• Richard Reeves Of Men and Boys

• Mike Ma, Delicious Tacos, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ells

• The patronage theory of book advances

• Does every ecosystem need bottom-feeders?

• Is Substack just drill for 120's?

• Who will bully the bullies?

• Has female compassion been hijacked?

• Neighbors with no fight in them