![]() ![]() Thank you Vaniver for your commitment to empiricism!Ĥ: Comments of the week: Resident Contrarian corrects/clarifies the way some Christians use the term “inspired”, and Shaked on “stair vs. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.ģ: Matt G, who comments here as “Vaniver”, invited me and some friends over to try the stew mentioned in Universe Hopping Through Substack. This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. You always worry about losing users during a move, but I see their main weekly thread is at 1766 comments and counting, so it looks like it’s going all right! They say: If you didn’t get an ACX Grant last year, no need to worry about this.Ģ: The Motte, a culture and politics subreddit which is a descendant of the old SSC Subreddit Culture War Thread, has moved off Reddit because of censorship worries. If this is you, please fill in this form by October 15. ![]() I should have emailed everyone involved a form, but I know that the emails to Michael Sklar and 1DaySooner bounced, and based on how few responses I’ve gotten I worry some others have as well. In this week’s news:ġ: I’m trying to collect information on how last year’s ACX Grants winners are doing. 95% of content is free, but for the remaining 5% you can subscribe here. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. A subspecies they aren’t as familiar with, however, are the Type A, politically driven, never-take-their-eye-off-the-ball gays-a group of which Pete Buttigieg is an extreme example.This is the weekly visible open thread. They also know the American sweethearts like Adam Rippon and Anderson Cooper. They know of the hot gay men like Wentworth Miller and Gus Kenworthy. They know of attention-grabbing gay men like Liberace and Billy Porter. Many know of comical gay men, like Jack from Will & Grace or videos of Billy Eichner’s street antics. I’ve come to believe that those who find his self-presentation off-putting are missing an important bit of context-one that has to do with the set of archetypes through which we (queer and straight folks alike) make sense of gay men.įor all the talk of diversity, LGBTQ equality, and representation of gays in the media, many Americans still have limited exposure to gay men. Even so, as a gay historian, I can’t help but witness his rise with interest and excitement, and in the wake of last week’s presidential debate and a revealing interview with Buttigieg on the New York Times’ Daily podcast, a worry has emerged. And I’ve critiqued his lack of familiarity with gay history in the past. I’ll be the first to admit that Buttigieg is missing a certain warmth. The privileges of race, class, and gender presentation that allow for his “pioneer” status relative to other sorts of queer people (and Buttigieg’s tepid acknowledgement of these) is another sore point. Here, too, he can come off as strangely circumspect, seemingly distant from gay culture and history-despite making it as the first serious openly gay presidential candidate. A related discontent has emerged in some corners of the LGBTQ community around Buttigieg’s relationship to his own gay identity. Since entering the field, initial appreciation for the South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s relative youth and rolled-sleeves Midwestern energy has given way to a sense in certain incredulous quarters that he is robotic, overly polished, McKinsey-calculating, somehow fake. Īs Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls in early caucus and primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, criticism of the candidate has mounted, particularly around his personality. This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. But It’s Not the Crisis Many Seem to Think. ![]() ![]()
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