Ginny Robards

Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.

this is how I picture myself when I'm liking y'all's posts

men, what’s stopping you from looking like this?

@ADHDForReal Why is this message superimposed over mochi

the types of podcasts: a guide

It’s opposite: culture is mostly created on the margins. Whatever gets filtered to elites is a polished, watered down version of the source material. The role of elites is cultural gatekeepers for other elites.

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

@puddleg @siimland By accurately describe, I literally just mean the study design. What the research team actually did.

@Natural_Fallacy @siimland This is a good question simply because that study itself has so many wrinkles and exceptions and oversights that the best critiques of it are book length. And, because the most sensible interpretation of its best data was never the official one you know.

@EyeOnStalk @Tyler_A_Harper @nataliapetrzela Yeah I wonder if this phenomenon is region specific. I don’t perceive liberal monogamous men to be in desperately short supply.

@Natural_Fallacy @Tyler_A_Harper @nataliapetrzela I think the reason this type of man is the obsession of NYC media circles is because those circles are mostly women so the men can name their price. Most women want an equitable, supportive, relationship with kids. Why do they put up with men who Peter Pan forever?

I wrote about Lindy West. Her memoir, in which she is guilt-tripped into polyamory by a husband who vaguely implies that monogamy is racist, is a cautionary tale about turning marriage into a political project. Her polyamory is just the coastal lib version of being a tradwife. 🧵

@EyeOnStalk @Tyler_A_Harper @nataliapetrzela I really think the number of men who would insist on an arrangement like this is quite small.

@Tyler_A_Harper @nataliapetrzela I’ve been thinking about it and I think that women and men are so far apart in what they want, that if you’re a lefty woman who wants a family (or doesn’t want to be alone for whatever reason) you’re willing to put up with A LOT, because numbers. Same with righty men.

@dilanesper It’s a controversial move locally because of the potential impact on the service industry.

I'm surprised this took so long. They installed an excellent lighting system more than a decade ago, the Oaks is a Friday race (so the daytime audience is much smaller), and they have run the Breeders' Cup Classic there at night already.

scientists are always putting mice in a situation

A guy's telling his cows he can't get the well to work, but someone will be there in an hour to fix it, they're all listening as they understand 🐄

@LeroyTheElk @dilanesper Yeah it feels like they are pathologizing something that is actually pretty normal. I suspect most people don’t experience their gender as some kind of distinct internal sensation.

@Natural_Fallacy @dilanesper I think I feel the same way! unless I'm just not able to notice the emotion, like a fish can't notice water. perhaps most people are "non-binary", at least according to this definition.

I know this is a slightly cheap point, but if you want to defend the category of "non-binary" as doing useful work or defining a group of oppressed people or even having a coherent definition, you have to deal with c i s celebrities like Courtney Stodden claiming to be non-binary

@SpectoCustodes @TheMindScourge Do people making less money have less free time? Genuinely asking. That hasn’t been my personal experience.

@TheMindScourge Bro it's way, way simpler than that. People making less money have less time and energy available to cook. They aren't thinking about the cost or the social implications, they're thinking that they don't need to worry about what to make for dinner tonight

Good demonstration here of the “status theory” of the restaurant industry works in practice. What job is DoorDash really doing? People at the higher end of the income ladder eat out more, especially at sit down restaurants. Those with less disposable income obviously can’t afford to do this as much, but clearly the underlying desire is still present DoorDash is convenient, but convenience alone doesn’t explain why people earning less than $50,000 use it more than those earning over $200,00. I think it’s because what DoorDash is really doing is selling you on the sensation of having an entourage, of having people at your beck-and-call. Those higher up the salary ladder have this need met in other ways, at work and elsewhere. But people in the lowest salary deciles don’t. They’re the ones most often taking directions in the work environment. So DoorDash compensates for this, it gives you the sense of being relatively higher - socially - than others

@LeroyTheElk @dilanesper I don’t understand where someone would get the idea that the normal state is to have a “male” or “female” emotional state. I don’t personally relate to that idea and it doesn’t make me non-binary. This honestly seems to be an internalization of regressive gender norms.

@dilanesper I don't quite understand these things either, but I think the idea is that many people have strong internal emotions associated with gender. If you don't have one of those emotions, or your emotional state isn't consistently the "male" or "female" one, that's called "non-binary".

@TerrelleGraham What if you don’t feel that way after exercising

You will never regret doing exercise / going to the gym when you didn’t feel like it. At the end of your session you’ll feel rejuvenated and satisfied that you displayed the discipline to still show up despite not feeling like it. Those moments build character and momentum. Discipline is more important than motivation. Remove your emotions from the equation and do what needs to be done to achieve your goals.

@AmericanMartel @asymmetricinfo It’s dismissive because none of these activists care about sports. They view the competitive element of athletics with contempt.

@asymmetricinfo This part seems a bit dismissive: "Because how could such a polarizing issue....actually be about the millisecond advantage of one teenage track star over another?" First, milliseconds matter in sports. Second, the gap is bigger than that; men have a large advantage.

This is an interesting argument from The Argument that the intensity of travel sports explains a lot of the backlash to trans female participation in women’s sports. Probably it’s a factor but having reported on it I think other factors were much more important.