1 Mar 2025
The contradiction that the Greeks both looked up to the heroes of the Iliad and understood they did horrible things stretched well into the Hellenic era, with Euripides staging The Trojan Women during the later period of the Peloponnesian war, after the Athenian actions at Melos.
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22 Feb 2024
Yeah, <historically, half of men died as virgins> is a hell of a claim.
22 Feb 2024
Since (Some) people seem Incredibly unable to do inference; What is true of the highest class of women is true also across the spectrum. They're ALL far easier to obtain. "Hoes" were NEVER cheap. Historically Half of men died virgins.
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19 Sep 2023
The Edwardian country house parties were hotbeds of infedility. The upper class on both sides of the Atlantic had no real moral objection to mistresses, as long as it was not flouted.
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23 Aug 2023
my professor taught it to me as “that” vs “that motherfucker over there”
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18 Aug 2023
Shoulda stuck around for villain penis. Picture mufasa and scar only, you know, dicks.
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18 Aug 2023
I was assigned to read it as a college freshman and when I got to the part about the “hero penis” I decided I didn’t need to read any more
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30 Jul 2023
It's the art history obsession with originality. You are a truly great artist only if your work is new -- that is, if we have lost the ability to trace its precedents.
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16 Jun 2023
Yup, they finish those courses to perform better at position of power. That doesn't mean that finishing any of those studies will give you a seat at the table.
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Better to do contextual analysis of @elonmusk tweet than self-display.
Eg.
14 Jun 2023
How is it that the military is more cautious than the White House or the State Department -- an agency of diplomats -- on crossing Putin's 'red lines'?
@BMarchetich: responsiblestatecraft.org/20…
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14 Jun 2023
I remember in college proposing a line of "Sulla potuit" sportswear.
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