Silvia Poratelli

'Pero no tiene nada puesto!', gritó finalmente toda la ciudad. El Emperador tembló, porque sospechó que ellos tenían razón.

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

My contribution to the board gender quotas discussion. Thanks to @DerechoUTDT for engaging in this discussion following its motto of academic excellence, pluralism and equal opportunity and thanks to @Quillette for making my views available to a larger audience.

[Quillette @Quillette]

The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create, writes @SPoratelli.

https://t.co/ihvk1O7pbG

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@MilanBrahmbha11 Thank you. Very helpful thread!

[Milan Brahmbhatt @MilanBrahmbha11]

You're missing the point. The West questioned itself from the beginning. That's what made it great.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

"Cofnas’s act took considerable courage. Not only did he defy the entire British educational establishment but he also invited the hostile scrutiny of London libel lawyers and perhaps even the police."

@AndrewHammel1 on the Arday fiasco for @Quillette
https://t.co/0QlrEKQW70

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@clairlemon 😂😂😂

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.

I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.

Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.

Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.

I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.

And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@IonaItalia She is not even instructing her to fake cry. She is teaching her to use self-suggestion to cry before an audience, like her mother. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@Quillette @robert_thornett This is what teaching should always be: an act of love and generosity, helping the student to think for him/herself. Thank you for a lovely article.

[Quillette @Quillette]

Homer is having a moment. Nolan's Odyssey has taken more than $650m worldwide.

@robert_thornett argues that classical education gives students what the modern world strips away: attention, disciplined argument, and the patience to sit with hard questions. Far from elitist dogma, it is booming among ordinary families and consistently outperforms.

https://t.co/2vonBPUfIZ

[Namwali @namwalien]

My problem with Nolan's interpretation isn't that it misreads or overreads the psychology of an Ancient Greek, but that it conveys that psychology through a modern talky confessional form (Calypso, Penelope, "Athena" as Odysseus's shrinks/ priests), rather than dramatizing it /4.

[Namwali @namwalien]

We get a literalist take (how many times did we hear law of Zeus 🙄?) rather than being asked to interpret signs ourselves. This bluntness of form, however creative Nolan's theory of Odysseus, will obsolesce the film while the tricky, ambiguous ancient poem continues to haunt. /5

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@xwanyex Soooo well said. They always assume we became parents at 18... 😂

[wanye @xwanyex]

The reason these attempts at snark from childless people don’t really work is that every person who has children was also at some point childless, so there is an experience asymmetry. I’ve been you, but you haven’t been me.

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@jayvanbavel 💔

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Teenagers are spending as much time on social media as they would for a full-time job.

Girls are spending more than 35 hours a week on social media and boys are not far behind. If they keep this up, it means the average teenager will spend more than 10 years of their life doomscrolling.

This is why research on this topic is crucial. We still know very little about the long-term effects of this kind of exposure (most studies on the causal effects of social media are limited to a few weeks). https://t.co/VNpjWWe1a2

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@DrFrancisYoung 😂😂😂

[Mjsolanofranco @mjsolanofranco]

https://t.co/FPDh1IfCrw

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Why Our Longing to Matter Drives and Divides Us | Amanpour and Company https://t.co/bcB6cF3k3O via @YouTube

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@GlennAndTonic 🙋🏻‍♀️

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

Esto se está hablando en todo el mundo, pero nadie menciona su nacionalidad. La bióloga de Argentina, Pilar Ferrer, desarrolló un gel inyectable que ayuda a reparar el tejido cardíaco dañado después de un infarto. Algo absolutamente histórico. Hoy en día cuando una persona sufre un ataque al corazón queda una cicatriz de forma permanente, el músculo no se regenera y eso lo hace propenso a sufrir insuficiencia cardíaca y arritmias en los casos graves. Esta en fase de pruebas, pero si esto llega a tener éxito va a ser un avance sin precedentes en los tratamientos para el corazón. Esto no sirve para la campaña antiargentina, pero este es otro ejemplo mas de lo importantes que son los aportes de los argentinos al mundo y lo fundamentales que son nuestras instituciones públicas y privadas. Argentina es un país extraordinario y nunca deja de demostrarlo.

[Silvia Poratelli @SPoratelli]

@robkhenderson 100%. But not everybody wants to make the effort to have a wonderful life...