I didn't understand it when I was younger, how some guys turned into "Bug Chasers" -- they fetishized barebacking as a way to catch HIV -- on purpose ( Read more... )

Everything I've purchased via my play money account at Fidelity has gone up. My portfolio is up about 10%. Global stocks are down about 10%. So I'm the inverse of everybody else ( Read more... )

I'm curious why drag is OK but blackface, brownface, or yellowface are not. It is OK to temporarily portray yourself as being a different gender, but not OK to temporarily portray yourself as being another race. This sort of cultural inconsistency fascinates me, especially when I know that both race and gender are cultural constructs ( Read more... )

internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist

Mark Fisher, from Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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Mary Gaitskill's lifetime theme is women damaged by participation in a male-dominated, consumer culture

the topic of “being good allies” came up, to which my new Danish friend shouted that white men our age had committed too many sins and done too many things wrong to ever be good allies in any sense of the word

I know that power swings between the two parties over time (every 8 +- 4 years, usually), and that the largest effects on those swings come from how the economy is doing, and whether people perceive one party as having all the power. Over time, it is inevitable that the economy will dissatisfy the public, and over time, it is inevitable that the ( Read more... )