the notion that woman’s default sexual orientation is “none” surprisingly persistent despite various contrary evidence

— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) June 10, 2022

A lot of people are taught — I was — that women don’t actually like sex at all, that they merely put up with it, and that if you attempt to have sex with a woman it is automatically harmful and degrading to her.

Many liberals have embraced this philosophy fully, but have also removed it out of the religious context in which it is typically embedded. That somehow makes it even worse because then it becomes an even deeper core belief.

On the other hand, this is also true:

to be fair, if you are an unattractive heterosexual male (like about 40% of the population), the message you get is that being sexually attracted to anyone is deeply shameful and predatory.

— thanatoid (@aitch_bar) June 10, 2022

current case of covid was picked up somewhere during this 4-day stint in Asheville and if I’d known then that traveling would get me sick I would have done… absolutely nothing differently, this was a blast pic.twitter.com/pbUuMd7AdM

— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) June 16, 2022

Agreed. That’s life now. I somehow have not yet caught (symptomatic) Covid, but if I do, who gives a crap?

Friend of mine: I bet you didn’t know there is a tampon shortage.

Me: Yeah, I know.

Friend: Oh, never mind, all your friends are women. Of course you know.

Heh. She’s not wrong.

One of the main reasons a lot of Physicists (not all, but their number includes me) have a very hard time understanding Finance, is that money, wealth&co are NOT conserved quantities. They are not even related to conserved quantities. https://t.co/8XoxeOEGa8

— Jacopo Bertolotti (@j_bertolotti) June 16, 2022

I’ve noticed that. Everyone assumes the market price or “value” of something decreasing means that the money goes somewhere, when nothing could be further from the truth. Nope, that money is just gone. Doesn’t exist anymore (if it ever did). Money has value only in trade, essentially. Otherwise, it’s just an idea — a fiction we tell one another — and is not conserved in any way. This is very difficult for physicists and engineer types to understand and accept.