This is my garbage site. It's supposed to be garbage, which I'm told is
liberating. You aren't supposed to like it, or me.
I created this site because I wanted a site where I could talk about
personal shit, particularly gender politics, regular politics, and my
assorted gender issues. Goal is to write more freely/stream
of consciousness instead of trying to edit myself and play it safe. There will
be some questionable punctuation and design decisions.
"If I have peed farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants."
: Not clicking that
Yesterday two copies of an episode called “Why Dating Sucks for Men” of the Vox
podcast Explain It to Me dropped in my podcast feed. Two copies because they
also put it in the weekend feed for Today, Explained, which is their daily
news podcast.
I’m not clicking that.
That topic is a known infohazard for me. Listening would only make me stressed
out and resentful over a problem I don’t even have because I’m not single. But
I have experienced enough frustration over the topic in life to know all the
arguments and refutations and counter-refutations: there’s no value to me in
listening. And yet, that clickbait title …
