ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I recently saw this 1569 portrait, painted by Antonis Mor, and immediately felt that it looked familiar in a very odd way. Here's...

1.  Isn't it funny that Warren's DNA debacle left a giant scar on her* while Trump saying that his ancestors came from Sweden ( ...

The only psychologically healthy way to interact with a narcissist is not to .  But when the president of a powerful country is a narcissis...

Tucker Carlson believes that a patriarchal system is required for any society to exist. I know this, because he invited the anti-feminist...

An initial over-correction of newly apparent social, economic and health problems is a particularly American cultural characteristic. (1)  ...

1.  Take commercial airplane seats .  They weren't always stacked against each other like crates for some cumbersome product in a wareh...

The possible relationship between misogynistic types of pornography and possible real world sexual violence is difficult to study for many ...

1.  My grandmother believed that buttermilk was the healthiest drink a child could have.  I hated the taste with the fire of a thousand sun...

I wrote about the views that all the new right-wing authoritarian movements share about women in a post last December , and also a year ag...

I'm increasingly convinced that we have too many debates about, say, bigoted speech and too few debates about the institutional and eco...

This post puts together my earlier writings on that frightening online-fueled movement (which, by the way, does not seem to be getting t...

This post on Tucker Carlson, about women's primitive nature, is funny.  Or at least I think it is funny, but then I wrote it. Carlso...

(The post is from 2006!  It's so old that I can't get to it via the Blogger archives.) Poetry translates very poorly, which i...

( Svanen ( The Swan ), No. 17, Group 9, Series SUW, October 1914 – March 1915.)* Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish painter ...

Masculinity and femininity are tricky concepts to define: They include both the way we interpret biological sex differences and the impact...

I wrote about the rationality or irrationality of the anti-vaccination movement last March , and concluded that the decision not to have on...

There have been recent cases where young people have died from Type I diabetes because of a combination of rapidly rising insulin prices a...

I struggle with it.  I wrote about my concerns last January , and also in 2018, in a post about how the selection of information we receive...

A recent NYT article notes a correlation between a man becoming a mass killer and earlier expressions of hatred of women: The man wh...

That was Friday night.  First I closed a heavy door over my left thumb.  I now have a brilliantly purple and green thumb.  Then I sat down ...