Washington Free Press: State Department Intersex Announcement
Today in celebration and recognition of Intersex Awareness Day, we affirm the United States’ commitment to promoting and protecting the human rights of Intersex persons globally.
With the war in Ukraine, the war in the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the world feeling shaky, the State Department must have something more important to do.
This is one of those stupid issues that could be resolved without legislation or legal action if people cared about kids. Anyone want to argue that social media is not detrimental to children? Parents, please explain why you give your children smart phones instead of dumb flip phones.
The New Yorker: Black People at Rest
It’s not clear what to make of this article and art exhibit showing Black women resting (h/t Althouse)
If you can’t be arsed to click over, the article talks about a photography exhibit at N.Y.U. and illustrates it with three photos of Black women idle in bed and one getting her hair washed. The article tries to make it sound like a broad social movement.
Paris Fashion Week is not an event that typically piques my interest, but it showed up in my news feed.
World Aquatics’ plans to debut an open category for transgender athletes at the World Cup in Berlin this week have been cancelled after no entries were received.
This is definitive proof that trans athletes only ever wanted an unfair advantage.
One would have to be incredibly naive or distracted to think that society is functioning properly. Very little of the federal government is operating in the best interests of the American people. On the local level, several cities have stopped enforcing laws and have gone quite feral.
Why are so many young men so angry online?
This article isn’t likely to suggest anything that will actually help men.
Deadline: Writers strike nears 100 days
Writers and actors probably have a bunch of legitimate complaints. Everybody has a few jerks in their chain-of-command, so why should they be any different?
Wild Thing is like the It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of music videos. You have to be of the era to understand just how amazing it is. It can’t be explained to anyone younger. I don’t know what would be comparable today.
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