Taylor Swift has become the girl she used to resent. My granddaughters adore her. I don't mind her, really. As for the rattcheting up of sexiness, it happens to most of them. That can't be Katy Perry. That can't be Miley Cyrus. That can't be Taylor Tomlinson. It was that way when I was young, too. That can't be Hayley Mills. That can't be Julie Andrews. It's a world with different pressures.
I've had my day talking about modern dating, when I was fascinated by the topics of intrasexual competition, dating apps, and burgeoning polygamies back in 2022. I still have some interest, especially with Kyle still searching. But I don't think I have much to add to the conversation. Works in Progress interviewed social scientist Alice Evans (transcript available), who substack talks about these issues a lot, in a way that doesn't make me crazy, at least when I graze a bit.
How Empathy Makes Us Cruel and Crazy. Freeing the Menendez brothers. Fits also with my post about Kind People Loving to Hate. Or maybe the one about pets. I don't know. It all looks familiar somehow.
Why Romania Excels in the International Olympiads. Jordan Lasker over at The Palladium thinks it is extreme stratification. The few at the expense of the many. I am going to reread this and perhaps come back to it, as two of my sons Transylvanian Elementary and Middle schools.
Sex Differences Don't Go Away Just Because You Want Them To
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