Asking men to cut away their —feminine— traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their —masculine— traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other— the fist or the open palm— it's our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we're in. Because to deny one half— to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it— is to deny our humanity and become something less than human.

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.

You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, —And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together.