Two things, true at the same time

Why do people interpret saying that Hillary Clinton ran a terrible campaign (which she did) to be supportive of Donald Trump?

I’d rather have a fucking goldfish be our leader than Trump, but that doesn’t change the fact that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was unconscionably dreadful.

Yes, we’d be better off in most ways with Hillary as prez. But so what? She ran an unforgivably bad campaign and lost.

Culture matters but isn’t everything

People believe in evolution, just not for humans.

Yep. Something I’ve been talking about for years.

The term โ€œliberal Creationismโ€ refers to the fact that on the cultural Left there is a strong belief in the concept of evolution on the whole, but in the case of human beings biological evolutionary processes are seen as marginal in comparison to culture. In other words, natural selection and adaptation explain the diversity around us in the animal and plant world, but can tell us little about human beings.

I’ve had liberals tell me fantastically ridiculous things such as that humans have no characteristics attractive to the opposite sex, and certainly none that evolved to be that way, and that evolution hasn’t happened to human in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, and that absolutely every human behavior can be explained by culture and culture alone. And more I am sure that I can’t recall now.

Liberal creationism is a bit better than the conservative kind, but no less stupid, really.

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More identity essentialism that annoys me so much.

tiny brain: lord of the flies with girls

bigger brain: lord of the flies wouldnโ€™t work with girls because theyโ€™d work together and get off the island

expanding brain: girls and women are capable of violence and cruelty too

galaxy brain: young girls could build an equally hellish micro-society but it would function differently from the original because of differing socialization and men arenโ€™t qualified to write it anyway

universe brain: girls aren’t some enormous mystery, and one need not be female to write good female characters and to understand the experiences of women and girls, just not be a misognyist idiot. Yes, unfortunately, this excludes 97% of men.

I think the idea of LOTF but with girls is kind of a bad one (but could be done well), but I bet I could write a better version than most women or men if someone showed me the money.

I am an arrogant prick, but I am also very good.