Musings of a male
Let me start by saying that I recognize that, in this particular cultural moment, many believe the most important thing is to hear from women and victims of abuse, and that there is no space to hear from men and (possible) perpetrators…
Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock recently wrote of an encounter he had in college where a girl had said she didn’t want to have sex, but — after they had been fooling and talking and laughing, he did end up starting to have sex with her, until she ended…
David Brooks wrote a column “Lovers, Prospectors, and Predators” in which he essentially expresses the opinion that predatory behavior is an extension of “prospector” behavior, in which sex is considered a transaction to be achieved and measured by…
“It’s much better.”
That’s how then-Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, back in 2014, described “the future,” one in which computers, given the right information, would act as a…
It’s interesting the whiplash one gets from sabbatical backpacking around Central America, to being back at their New York City office job — and in many ways, confined to a more limited realm of aesthetic experience: physically subdued in computer-facing sedentariness, no longer…