Favorite Horror Performances of 2023.

Kaitlyn Dever in No One Will Save You, definitely. She carried the film. What a great job, especially with nearly no dialogue.

Why are many men so upset with the fact that women have a height preference?

Few men are upset by it directly, but rather by the hypocrisy: all too often women who have absurd height standards are 400 pound wildebeests who go fucking nuts when you observe that it’s much harder to change one’s height than it is one’s weight.

But personally, I do not give a single fuck if a lot of already-undesirable women die alone. The cats need someone to take care of them — and I like nearly all cats more than nearly all people, women or men.

What are a few obscure rules you have for yourself WRITTEN IN FUCKING STONE?

Not sure these are obscure, but rules I live by:

1) Never, ever let anyone bully me or those I care about. If they try, make them pay. A lot.

2) Never be fat and weak again.

3) Always be polite; never be a pushover.

4) Give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But once they prove they are clowns, eject.

5) Attempt to pet all cats I see.

Addendum: Continue to be a stubborn, grumpy motherfucker gettin’ shit done and complaining all day long.

Hard to go wrong with those.

Why are so many men written by women comical caricatures of masculinity?

Men get criticized for writing women poorly (and breastily) but women authors do the same thing when writing about men, in about equal amounts. In fact since these days there are more books written by women than men, I’d posit that men are more poorly-portrayed than women in absolute numbers terms.

Most people don’t make even the first effort to understand or empathize with someone not exactly like them. Contra feminists who prattle on about how men are uniquely terrible writers of women, this deficiency is a human thing, not a man or woman thing.