Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stops his car on Interstate 684 in New York State while traveling with his children and cuts the penis off a road-killed raccoon.
Reminder that a significant portion of humanities and social science academia is just a jobs program for people who are too histrionic to be tolerated in any other setting.
45 alumni of @DMSabatini's lab at @MIT@WhiteheadInst signed this 4/22 open letter repudiating the smear campaign against him. That witch hunt was so intense these accomplished people had to sign anonymously — and many more were too fearful even for that.
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Deranged leftist student was just ARRESTED at the University of Texas after vandalizing an American flag at a TPUSA table and then ASSULTING people with a cane.
We have a communist violence problem
@damintoell Unpopular opinion but I feel that Tom Hanks is kind of a meta-Forrest Gump — a man of no particular talent who has blundered obliviously into many of the great films of his age.
Tbc tho I am male and meant this by way of disputing your claim that “it only goes one way” wrt buying into opposite sex protagonists. I simply don’t think that’s true, but I think in The Hatchet Discourse there’s also a lot of conflation of male protagonists with male-coded subject matter, the latter of which I suspect matters far more.
It’s been a long time since I read either, but I remember enjoying Island of the Blue Dolphins very similarly (actually more so) to Hatchet. There are some differences I could reflect upon now, including of course the female vs male protagonists, but none of that registered at the time. I was enthralled by a story about wilderness survival.
@williawa@Orionsayshi2@morallawwithin Why? I’m not sure exactly what Moore had to say about this, but it seems useful to assert a definition of touching that comports with our commonsense experience rather than defining touching as impossible based on some pedantic point about the nature of atomic forces.