YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

All the news that's fit to rant about. The New Yorker kicks off its week-long "Family Issue" with an in-depth endorsement of Feeld - "a hookup app for the emotionally mature." Budding Roses, a summer camp in Portland, Oregon, teaches kids how to survive police brutality and the evils of the patriarchy.

Some thoughts on our polarized political landscape in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In this episode we discuss the unintended consequences of separating gender from biological sex, the increasing divisions within the left, the narcissistic nature of modern narratives of meaning, and other topics.

All the news that's fit to rant about. National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman proves you don't have to be good - you just have to be woke. Trans actor Elliot Page proves it's okay to be a man as long as you’re biologically female.

A conversation with Dr. Andrew Hartz about the infiltration of the therapeutic industry by progressive identity politics. They discuss the trend of therapist activism, wokeness as mental health, race and gender based hostility of therapists toward their patients, the need for therapists to provide a safe space for non-woke feelings, the mental health implications of using judgment and shame to force people to repress their feelings, the parallels between woke bullies and wife beaters, the parallels between antiracists and homophobes, the ways that widespread institutionally enforced cultural repression leads to a shallow culture, identity politics as a form (and cause) of mental illness, borderline personality disorder, splitting with regard to race and gender, the need for ambivalence, how splitting can destroy an inpatient psychiatric unit, how splitting devalues human beings and justifies abusing them, the ways in which reason has been distorted socially on a widespread level, and how trans issues went from off the radar to unarguable in the field of psychology.

Read Dr. Hartz's publications referenced in this episode:

"Leftist Extremism Is Turning Therapists And Counselors Against Their Own Clients": https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/02/leftist-extremism-is-turning-therapists-and-counselors-against-their-own-clients/

"A Diagnosis for American Polarization": https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-diagnosis-for-american-polarization-11604447133?mod=hp_opin_pos_2

All the news that's fit to rant about. Daily shootings, Trump '24, gender fanaticism, Margaret Atwood - is it time to expatriate?

A kids' summer camp called Camp Interlaken gets gender inclusive.

All the news that's fit to rant about. Johnny Depp gets his day in court despite being a man. Ezra Miller throws a chair at a woman, which is worse than throwing a chair at a man, but the important thing is that Ezra Miller is nonbinary. Disney heroically protects us from the dangers of The Muppet Show. Local elementary school children show their love for Identity, Diversity, and Justice.

Some thoughts about the Parental Rights in Education law, more commonly known (thanks to its critics) as the Don't Say Gay law.

A deep dive into the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan, chronicling the rise and fall of the queen of vegan cuisine Sarma Melngailis.

A deep dive into Turning Red, the latest disaster from the formerly great Pixar.