There is also Paul Krugman for economics and Jeff Tiedrich who is a self described internet loudmouth. If you aren't familiar with Jeff, he provides a perspective on politics that releases the anger while making you laugh (or at least making me laugh). So those are two other substacks I read who I don't also happen to be married to.
Oh FFS! We are trotting out that old brain size trope again? I thought that was dispelled when Einstein’s brain was measured and weighed and fiund to be small….
Can the tech-bros not stop already with the dick- measuring contest- sorry brain-measuring contest
Thank you for provoking my thoughts. It is both anthropologically interesting and personally infuriating that it is men who are historically and currently responsible for the devastation caused by countless wars, while also rapaciously bringing humanity ever and ever closer to global environmental disaster. And yet it is also men who still think they should be in charge of the globe. I do wonder whether underneath this macho façade they are doing there best to conceal and outrace the truth: that women are becoming so self-sufficient that they can survive quite well without them? Women are holding their own in higher education, the top paying professions, the military and police, and increasingly in government and politics. When women need protection they prefer it be provided by other women, especially because it is men who are the greatest source of danger. Of course, men are still necessary to supply half the DNA to create new humans and maybe this is why it is men insisting that women should have no choice in getting pregnant or in staying pregnant. Pregnancy and motherhood are the times when women can be vulnerable and are easier to handle and manipulate..
How much of Project 2025 is a reaction to women liberating themselves? Just as increasingly overt racism is a reaction to improved civil rights and the growing number of non-whites moving into the middle class and politics. A person who is confident of their abilities and value does not need to beat down others. If Maga white men are so certain of their superiority, why do they need to spend so much time and energy on trying to prove it and why are they so intellectually incapable of recognizing the flaws in their pseudo-science?
(Note: I am not a fan of using generalizations in an argument, usually. So let me state that I know not all men are violent or intellectually inferior to women. I know some women who are not nice people. I know not all white men are racist, maybe not even all Maga white men. I know not only white men support societies that subjugate women. So, if you feel a need to explain these points to me, let me first say that I have noticed that most men on Substack don’t fit these generalizations, while some of the trolls have female leaning names. Better to save your energy for the battle ahead.
Big is not always better. Aren’t there a whole lot of pediatric studies using head measurements as a possible sign of other issues? Remembering back to the talk of Einsteins glial cells being the original information superhighway. https://medium.com/@GregoryBetti/a-mind-in-paradox-the-neuroscience-of-einsteins-genius-43d983fec467. As a person with a very small head, I have self preserved thinking size doesn’t matter. I ‘d rather have the computing power in my small phone than the big old mainframe. Women, we have always known size doesn’t matter.
Thank you for this. I have been avoiding news and all social media to protect my sanity in the face of this monster clown show, and was not aware of this latest dumbfuckery. I wonder if the idiots have considered the fact that all birth by csection would greatly limit the amount of children a person could have given the increased risks to the uterus with repeated surgeries. Would kind of thwart their plans to change the trajectory of lowering birth rates. Anyway, thank you for being a light in the dark.
And so, in order to give us important and real leverage to fight for women's health, we must pressure Biden to make the ERA into the 28th Amendment before he leaves office on Jan 19.
The White House can be persuaded to make ONE SINGLE PHONE CALL before Jan 19, which will finally give equal rights to all women and girls in the U.S.
It's time to stop being so damn polite about this, and instead demand what's rightfully ours: equal protections under the law and an end to legalized sex discrimination.
Please read available current information before you comment. See the links. All that remains of the process is for the ERA to be recorded/certified as the 28A. Biden can make that happen. Literally, actually, factually.
Handsmaid's Tale, here we come ... Truly terrifying. The state and men in control of women's bodies, and in control of birth ..
Off to dig out all my 1970s stuff about women reclaiming their own bodies, reclaiming birth etc etc. Who'da thought we'd need it all again? Sigh.
Don't get me wrong. C Section was life-saving for me and my bairn. Safe affordable medical intervention should be available for every woman who needs it. But routinely?
I am not trying to be an example of the more open minded, inclusive male Rosalind has referenced. Once again I compliment the women who post to Dr. Jen's discussions. Rosalind may have a Canadian affiliation given her use of the red maple 🍁
I am a proud 🇨🇦 and concur with the opening 🙏 comment yet not quite so non secular in my intention. OMG what a troubling to say the least the next several yr's will be, not thanks to the most unforgiving idiot to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
I ran the Elon Diablo 4 thing by my daughter and her spouse, as they are avid gamers. They said that the top Diablo player actually did a spoof where he (and I'm probably going to use the wrong terms here so forgive me) ran the game himself and used a bot to make it look like it was Elon. It was a joke. Apparently the Forbes writer fell for the spoof. That's what the gamer community is saying, anyway. 😁
Ha! I wouldn't be surprised. Then again, I also wouldn't be surprised if he paid someone to make it look like that, but I admit I know nothing about video games.
Bless you, Jen Gunter. And I say that in the purest, most non-sectarian way possible. Thank you for doing what you do.
You're the only sane voice in the void. I can't even begin to think how horrible 2025 is going to be.
There is also Paul Krugman for economics and Jeff Tiedrich who is a self described internet loudmouth. If you aren't familiar with Jeff, he provides a perspective on politics that releases the anger while making you laugh (or at least making me laugh). So those are two other substacks I read who I don't also happen to be married to.
Oh FFS! We are trotting out that old brain size trope again? I thought that was dispelled when Einstein’s brain was measured and weighed and fiund to be small….
Can the tech-bros not stop already with the dick- measuring contest- sorry brain-measuring contest
.
I don't think they can stop!
Thank you for provoking my thoughts. It is both anthropologically interesting and personally infuriating that it is men who are historically and currently responsible for the devastation caused by countless wars, while also rapaciously bringing humanity ever and ever closer to global environmental disaster. And yet it is also men who still think they should be in charge of the globe. I do wonder whether underneath this macho façade they are doing there best to conceal and outrace the truth: that women are becoming so self-sufficient that they can survive quite well without them? Women are holding their own in higher education, the top paying professions, the military and police, and increasingly in government and politics. When women need protection they prefer it be provided by other women, especially because it is men who are the greatest source of danger. Of course, men are still necessary to supply half the DNA to create new humans and maybe this is why it is men insisting that women should have no choice in getting pregnant or in staying pregnant. Pregnancy and motherhood are the times when women can be vulnerable and are easier to handle and manipulate..
How much of Project 2025 is a reaction to women liberating themselves? Just as increasingly overt racism is a reaction to improved civil rights and the growing number of non-whites moving into the middle class and politics. A person who is confident of their abilities and value does not need to beat down others. If Maga white men are so certain of their superiority, why do they need to spend so much time and energy on trying to prove it and why are they so intellectually incapable of recognizing the flaws in their pseudo-science?
(Note: I am not a fan of using generalizations in an argument, usually. So let me state that I know not all men are violent or intellectually inferior to women. I know some women who are not nice people. I know not all white men are racist, maybe not even all Maga white men. I know not only white men support societies that subjugate women. So, if you feel a need to explain these points to me, let me first say that I have noticed that most men on Substack don’t fit these generalizations, while some of the trolls have female leaning names. Better to save your energy for the battle ahead.
Big is not always better. Aren’t there a whole lot of pediatric studies using head measurements as a possible sign of other issues? Remembering back to the talk of Einsteins glial cells being the original information superhighway. https://medium.com/@GregoryBetti/a-mind-in-paradox-the-neuroscience-of-einsteins-genius-43d983fec467. As a person with a very small head, I have self preserved thinking size doesn’t matter. I ‘d rather have the computing power in my small phone than the big old mainframe. Women, we have always known size doesn’t matter.
Thank you as always, for making sense in an increasingly insane world
Thank you for this. I have been avoiding news and all social media to protect my sanity in the face of this monster clown show, and was not aware of this latest dumbfuckery. I wonder if the idiots have considered the fact that all birth by csection would greatly limit the amount of children a person could have given the increased risks to the uterus with repeated surgeries. Would kind of thwart their plans to change the trajectory of lowering birth rates. Anyway, thank you for being a light in the dark.
And so, in order to give us important and real leverage to fight for women's health, we must pressure Biden to make the ERA into the 28th Amendment before he leaves office on Jan 19.
The White House can be persuaded to make ONE SINGLE PHONE CALL before Jan 19, which will finally give equal rights to all women and girls in the U.S.
It's time to stop being so damn polite about this, and instead demand what's rightfully ours: equal protections under the law and an end to legalized sex discrimination.
Get the short version of the story here https://www.lwv.org/take-action/president-must-immediately-publish-equal-rights-amendment
And see all the info and action resources I've gathered on it at these 2 links.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kaycoughlin/p/busting-the-most-common-objections?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=58rt
https://open.substack.com/pub/kaycoughlin/p/one-antiracist-action-you-can-take?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=58rt
That's not in his power. Changing the Constitution is up to Congress (2/3 majority...).
Please read available current information before you comment. See the links. All that remains of the process is for the ERA to be recorded/certified as the 28A. Biden can make that happen. Literally, actually, factually.
I am glad that I live in Canada. Once again a man with some social influence (a select audience) is blaming women for the future of "MAN" kind.
Sadly, Canada has it's own far right tech bros that are cozy with Polievre. We're not immuned. We need to be vigilant. https://breachmedia.ca/canada-far-right-tech-billionaires-pierre-poilievre/
I agree with you. We have our fair share, but Trump and his buddies I think alone and in combination are far worse and in a lot of ways dangerous.
This is off-topic, but here's another thing to bust a gut over. At least the CDC has taken some action.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/fdageneral/113647?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-01-03&mh=8bd98b2181053faa94517d3d773b7355&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-01-03&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition
I can't figure out how the developing fetal brain knows it will or won't be delivered by c-section, thus determining how big it grows...
Handsmaid's Tale, here we come ... Truly terrifying. The state and men in control of women's bodies, and in control of birth ..
Off to dig out all my 1970s stuff about women reclaiming their own bodies, reclaiming birth etc etc. Who'da thought we'd need it all again? Sigh.
Don't get me wrong. C Section was life-saving for me and my bairn. Safe affordable medical intervention should be available for every woman who needs it. But routinely?
I am not trying to be an example of the more open minded, inclusive male Rosalind has referenced. Once again I compliment the women who post to Dr. Jen's discussions. Rosalind may have a Canadian affiliation given her use of the red maple 🍁
I am a proud 🇨🇦 and concur with the opening 🙏 comment yet not quite so non secular in my intention. OMG what a troubling to say the least the next several yr's will be, not thanks to the most unforgiving idiot to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
I ran the Elon Diablo 4 thing by my daughter and her spouse, as they are avid gamers. They said that the top Diablo player actually did a spoof where he (and I'm probably going to use the wrong terms here so forgive me) ran the game himself and used a bot to make it look like it was Elon. It was a joke. Apparently the Forbes writer fell for the spoof. That's what the gamer community is saying, anyway. 😁
Ha! I wouldn't be surprised. Then again, I also wouldn't be surprised if he paid someone to make it look like that, but I admit I know nothing about video games.
Ikr?! Me neither. Glad you were amused. I was too 🤣 Thanks for sharing the article!
I am thankful to have you be a public "voice of reason" in this crazy time. I just hope we all make it through the next four years....