The Fourth Meditation On Blind Spots

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One of the first things most girls (and people mistakenly considered to be girls) learn about boys is that boys want to date you.

The Third Meditation Concerning Why Women Should Ask Men Out

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One of the questions I’m trying to explore with this series is what would be some logical ways in which to organize the dating world. There aren’t any.

The Second Meditation on Nice Guys

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[Previous posts in this series: one. Responding to Yvain's Meditations on assorted social-justice-y and dating topics, which can be found here if you scroll down a bit.] Nice Guys are one of the few topics guaranteed like circumcision and feminism to get people to argue. Seriously, post about the prison-industrial complex and there are two responses, [...]

The First Meditation on Social Awkwardness

(Hat tip to Misha and Doug S. I assume the coincidence of two people sending this to me means that there is a vast outcry for me to write about it. Never let it be said I ignore the wishes of my slavering fanbase.) Recently, Yvain wrote a series on privilege and creepiness and social justice [...]

The Good Mind Project

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What does aspiring toward goodness entail? In the first of a series of articles about ethics and values, Nathan Zimmerman and Ben Labe introduce us to The Good Mind Project.