Narcissism Exaggerates Baseline Hypergamy
Hypergamy: an evolutionary norm, or exaggerated by cultural narcissism?
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Doctor Who cancelled
Further to our previous post on Stargate, we now learn that the venerable SciFi franchise of Doctor Who has been cancelled (again). Doctor Who first appeared on British TV screens the day after the assassination of JFK in 1963. The initial episode was actually rebroadcast as week later as many had skipped watching it in …
Amazon cancels new Stargate series over ‘modern audience’ concerns
Stargate was a successful TV franchise, based on the well known movie of the same name, that ran from 1997 to 2011. An attempt to produce a new Stargate series involving many of the original creators was recently axed. This is a video by Youtuber Nerdrotic in which the axing of the series is discussed. …
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Mike Buchanan and Paul Elam: Men Stop Drinking, daily Zoom meetings
Mike Buchanan has launched a new initiative, Men Stop Drinking. The video below has Mike and Paul Elam discuss the initative.
Well-intended Affirmative Insanity
Jon Gunnarson makes the case that affirmative action programs, however well-intended, often do more harm than good. No matter who’s supposed to benefit or who’s supposed to be privileged or underprivileged.
Has Chivalry Fled? (Article, May 1912)
The following article provides an example of a ‘threat narrative’ – i.e., in this case the threat that chivalry is departed or dying, thus putting women in danger in a myriad ways. The ‘Chivalry Is Dead’ trope has been wheeled out by every newspaper and media outlet for the last two centuries, on a weekly …
