This is the moment y'all. Make your choices.

Hierarchy causes rape. Because of course, rape is not about sex, it is about power. When you have a culture that teaches everyone, but especially men, that their value comes from being ‘above’ others, well then you’ll find that they start doing disturbing things to prove that they are above others. Women are in general more psychically vulnerable than men and is there a more brutal and dramatic way to exert physical dominance than rape? Yes of course there are complexities here, and yes of course I have data! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232454315_The_Socio-Cultural_Context_of_Rape_A_Cross-Cultural_Study

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Maybe a silver lining to Trump will be that we’ll have to sit ourselves down and do some soul searching. It now seems pretty clear, we made one of the worst bullies humanity has ever seen the most powerful person on the planet. We can blame him, and we should, but he got here due to our support/lack of push back. Please understand that this is the natural outcome of a zero-sum hierarchical mindset. When you view it as a value to be “above” others, then you will rally for the bully that claims that they will help you push others down. The pedos, the grapists, the scam artists will rule us until we stop valuing being above others.

Ya know in 2026 can you please not announce your new podcast episode or conference appearance with “Breaking News:” 2026 has no chill, “Breaking News” is basically a jump-scare. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

When you think you're above something is when you are most susceptible to it.

Wouldn't work, but very true. We aren't wired to hurt each other. When ugly things happen everyone is hurt, victim and perpetrator.

Seen in a newsletter... "2026 so far really has zero chill" 🎯

A government is never going to tell you that it's become authoritarian. There will always be some stated justification for it's behavior. It's on you to have some moral standards and to push back at an appropriate time.