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The electronic house music thumps underneath, in the basement. Five of us partygoers are sitting in the front parlor, away from the fray. An elliptical wooden coffee table separates us, a too-small rectangular piece of cardboard mostly covering it. One of the parlor people has been entrusted with staffing the front door (keep out the… Read More An evening in the life of a thinking person among the masses
(10-minute read) Our American culture privileges male sexual pleasure, with female sexual pleasure often no more than a sidebar discussion. Girls are conditioned to expect and tolerate discomfort in many domains: in clothing necessary to adhere to dress codes, in conversational interruptions, in our paychecks and career opportunities, in access to the means of reproductive… Read More The Misogynist Concept of Sexual “Reciprocity”
(7-minute read) Through one lens, the Bible essentially amounts to an anthology of foreskin stories and penis parables. The mythical pre-history of Israel begins in the book of Genesis with Abraham, the legendary patriarch of patriarchs, born in a city on the Persian Gulf in what is now Iraq. While living in what is now… Read More Foreskin: A 3000-Year Epic
(4-minute read) The first woman was also the first “nasty woman”. [I refer to the misogynist insult—famously leveled by Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in the October 2016 presidential candidate debate—now co-opted as an empowering feminist battle cry.] Just as women still experience today, the mythical first female human was punished for the sin of having… Read More The Very First “Nasty Woman”
(15-minute read) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by frustration, hungry eager underemployed, driving Uber through the streets at dawn looking for a way to lean in, overeducated businesswomen burning for the promised opportunity to apply their energy to dynamic work in the machinery of the economy . . . A lost… Read More The Lost Generation
I began this journal when I got hired as a Spanish-language ski instructor at Vail – an unexpected, undreamed experience for someone who didn’t try the ski bum experience post-college, but was fortunate to try it two decades later! It was a fun and rewarding experience, in which I had the joy of sharing my… Read More Vail Ski Instructor Journal