Critical Thought · Social Contract

She-Hulk: Is Marvel Failing Feminism?

I won't name her, but YouTube decided to hit me with a video the other day about how woke superhero Hollywood was failing women. It begins with an article supporting She-Hulk that drove the talking head into a froth because it included comments from the show creators about how the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has… Continue reading She-Hulk: Is Marvel Failing Feminism?

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A Traditionally Masculine Question About Gender

We're doing things a little differently today. Normally with this blog I attempt to share opinion and experience (alongside any expertise that I can). That's why I focus on aspects of mental health (rather than the field broadly) and writing. Today, I want to venture into an area where I have zero qualification. Not only… Continue reading A Traditionally Masculine Question About Gender

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Victory Defeated US: How Winning Became the Ultimate American Problem

I am not much of a Republican or a Democrat. My ideology is at times offensive to both party lines and so I could not imagine success representing Americans with either despite sharing plenty in common. Consider, for example, that I support small government and minimal regulation. I differ from the average Republican in what… Continue reading Victory Defeated US: How Winning Became the Ultimate American Problem

Personal · Social Contract

Another Appeal Against Late-Stage Capitalism

In the past I have tried to dance around the language of economics a bit. Any critique of capitalism seems to confirm that the critic is a Marxist/socialist/communist. The philosopher in me loves capitalism and holds it as the superlative economic system, regarding it as the mathematical observation of the fair and natural allocation of… Continue reading Another Appeal Against Late-Stage Capitalism

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Dunning-Kruger Is My Middle Name: Empathy, Knowing How Much I Don’t Know, and Struggling in a World of “Experts”

Where even to start? There is the mask requirement debate or the "Karen" response or the even broader state of discourse. There is the snowflake versus the deplorable. There is the stan versus the canceller. The world contains a lot of hostility right now, and many of those hostile actors feel righteous in their anger.… Continue reading Dunning-Kruger Is My Middle Name: Empathy, Knowing How Much I Don’t Know, and Struggling in a World of “Experts”