Why is Sex Associated with Death?
It isn't just the French la petite mort -- the "little death" -- that binds the mysteriously opposed forces of sex and death together. Death has long been associated with…
Hatred Isn’t Fear
I am a few chapters into a book called Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence, and I may end up doing a full-length review of it in the future, after I…
Can You Hate an Idea?
Last month, KM Patten wrote a rather lengthy review of my first book, In Defense of Hatred: Two observations can be made almost instantly when one considers the concept of Hatred.…
Courtesy Peter Beste
What is “Traditional Masculinity?”
Between the recent Gillette advertisement criticizing "toxic masculinity" and the new American Psychological Association's guidelines for the psychological practice with boys and men, everyone is talking about masculinity. Is it…
The “Personalized-Exclusive” Argument
As a lover of arguments, there are few things more irritating than the kinds of arguments which shut down the conversation. Ad hominems are probably the most familiar variety of this…
Some Thoughts on Gender Symmetry
A number of people (Sargon of Akkad, Joe Rogan, and Jordan Peterson most notably) have been talking about the creepy unattractiveness of male feminists. Aside from their verbal expressions of…
On “Socialization”
Perhaps the greatest criticism I hear of home-schooling is concern over whether or not children will be properly "socialized." The theory is that children who are home-schooled have less exposure…
All I Want For Christmas Is An Excuse for Self-Gratifying Hedonism
Here's a brilliant plan: take the holiday about family togetherness and instead, sow the seeds (so to speak) of distrust, resentment, confusion, and isolation: When I told my husband I…
Are you “Spiritual?”
I think the fastest-growing religion in America today is probably "spiritual but not religious." The continual rise in witchcraft seems to match this trend: with a few unique exceptions, the…
The Benefits of Writing by Hand
In the age of keyboards, blogs, Microsoft Word, and even turning in assignments online, we have fewer and fewer reasons to write things out by hand anymore. Even little notes…