Scott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten)

Cartoons hate her.

The gender wars are class wars.

Paywalled.

Somehow this is a genuinely original insight on gender.

CAH claims that a lot of the red pill versus feminist fights about norms are about what the norms actually are, rather than what they should be, and that the differences here are less about gender than class.

Claims like men only care about attractiveness and men will inevitably cheat on their wife with the nanny are working class norms, with norm meant here as thing everyone believes rather than a moral imperative.

Other claims like men want a smart, accomplished wife and most men would never cheat on their wife with the nanny and are you sure the nanny is even interested are upper middle class norms.

Working men assert how things work for them, upper middle class women notice it's not how their world works and call the men bigoted.

Working class men know it is how their world works and call the women unwilling to face harsh reality.

Makes sense.

But where is the symmetrical working class women versus upper middle class men gender war?

28.

The airship people have finally made an airship.

Here is a photo of an airship inside a big hangar.

It's very large.

29.

I've appreciated some of Jeff Mauer's posts recently, especially, should people who blast their music in public receive fines or be slowly tortured to death?

Though recently I had a claim that this is all downstream of Apple removing the headphone jack from their phone.

I think government should intervene by fining the blasters.

But if not, pressuring Apple to add it back on externality grounds would be an interesting move.