Ted Bauer

Writer, editor, fan of random sports t-shirts

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This is Joe's Pond in West Danville, Vermont. It is the largest body of water in Vermont still called a "pond." In the 1940s and 1950s, my dad (died August 2025), my grandfather (died 1982), my grandmother (died 1979), my aunt (died 2013), and my uncle (still among us) used

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Meet the heartland's most disgusting couple.

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Have this 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers-signed plaque ("Knot Hole Gang") from my deceased dad. Anyone know people in sports memorabilia, either NYC or wherever, who might be interested in something such as this?

cc: @MLB @Dodgers @mmpadellan

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Would he have shot up a school? Probably not, but could he have and were the standard signs there? Yes.

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Recent NBC polling highlights a massive ideological gap: "Having children" remains a top success goal for young conservative men, but is dropping fast for women across the political spectrum. It turns out, when one side bears 100% of the biological and early caretaking load....

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We wonder why young men and women are talking past each other, but look at where they grew up. A generation of young women was socialized on Instagram—flowery, visual, and left-leaning. Young men grew up on YouTube and gaming—reactive, structural, and right-leaning. Diff. worlds

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start focusing heavily on modeling what a healthy, two-way partnership actually looks like.

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We spent years rightly breaking down toxic masculinity, but we never gave men a clear, constructive blueprint of what to build in its place. To reverse this polarization, we have to move past online finger-pointing and

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Modern dating culture has become grist for the online outrage mill. We take isolated, performative TikToks about "first-date expectations" or the "chopped man epidemic" and treat them as universal truths, giving rise to an active, reactionary culture that builds walls.

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It is easy to look at the "Red Pill" or anti-women algorithms and judge them from 35,000 feet. But underneath the online vitriol is usually a cocktail of real human pain: divorces, loneliness, and silent struggles like infertility. The internet just weaponizes that isolation.

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The sudden internet obsession with "traditional values" and wives who "obey" isn’t a noble return to the past. For a lot of men, it’s a mask for wanting a servant instead of a partner, fueled by a digital landscape that tells men they are inherently entitled to total control.

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The "Gender War" isn't a manufactured moral panic anymore—it’s a tangible cultural reality. Driven by hyper-targeted algorithms, men and women are being fed radically different versions of each other, pushing ideological views and life goals further apart than ever before.

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We rarely talk about how deeply men internalize the quiet, painful struggle of infertility. When the conventional "procreator" narrative slips out of reach, it forces a hard look at what being a man actually means. Showing up as a partner matters.

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Reducing domestic cooperation to "choreplay"—the idea of trading household chores for intimacy—is incredibly cynical. Marriage isn't an automated transaction where unloading the dishwasher buys you a token. Real partnership is about mutual respect, not keeping a domestic score.

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When the old pillars shake, partnership is the only one left standing.

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Traditional masculinity metrics are facing a triple threat: automation is shifting what it means to "provide," rising infertility rates are complicating what it means to "procreate," and an anxious world has redefined "protection."

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The tax code is fundamentally built to reward capital over labor, a flaw that will only worsen as automation scales. If we want to save the consumer economy, we have to flip the script: give massive tax breaks to companies that actively choose to employ humans at liveable wages.

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like a checklist item rather than an active relationship.

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There is a loud online narrative about men being "destroyed by the court system" and losing their kids. Yet, look closely at weekend custody dynamics, and you often see a different friction: parents who are physically present but psychologically absent, treating custody