I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of … Continue reading The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
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The Party Was Already Happening Somewhere Else
The fun is real. So is the mechanism stripping the people out who invented it. Every thematic drinking holiday follows the same invisible script: a marginalized community creates something vivid and defiant in the face of suppression, mainstream culture discovers it's enjoyable once the edge has been sanded off, and retail moves in to sell … Continue reading The Party Was Already Happening Somewhere Else
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