I agree that Current Thing articles aren't that interesting. I've also lost a lot of interest in FdB's writing recently. I've never read a Person Guy article, so I'm guessing it's some Twitter discourse thing that doesn't matter. That seems to cover a lot of his articles as well as a lot of Substack. Then there's his latest piece on "prescriptivism." I find this sort of crap unreadable because I have a deeper understanding of the history of English than 99% of the population. Someone referring to "traditional" language as the type spoken 30 years ago is pretty silly. It would be like referring to Obama as a founding father and presuming North America was uninhabited before then.
Hey from a reader … I’m diving in and ran across a typo and the blessing of low readership is, you and I can TALK! Anyway, because you will see this and because you care, you wrote “I don’t see you shitting the woods” without the important IN to clarify the picture you intended to paint for me. Okay back to reading
I enjoyed the whole essay, but really I had to express my gratitude for providing a snappy comeback to those sociobiologists who justify cheating on their wives with a kind of gleeful helplessness. “What can we do?” they say. “It’s how we men evolved!” But, as you note, we also evolved without indoor plumbing, and somehow these guys never feel the same evolutionary pull for defecating outdoors as they do for cheating on their wives. Funny, that.
Awesome article! I person guy all the time both directions … it is against human nature to interact this way the majority of time. It cannot be good!
I agree that Current Thing articles aren't that interesting. I've also lost a lot of interest in FdB's writing recently. I've never read a Person Guy article, so I'm guessing it's some Twitter discourse thing that doesn't matter. That seems to cover a lot of his articles as well as a lot of Substack. Then there's his latest piece on "prescriptivism." I find this sort of crap unreadable because I have a deeper understanding of the history of English than 99% of the population. Someone referring to "traditional" language as the type spoken 30 years ago is pretty silly. It would be like referring to Obama as a founding father and presuming North America was uninhabited before then.
Hey from a reader … I’m diving in and ran across a typo and the blessing of low readership is, you and I can TALK! Anyway, because you will see this and because you care, you wrote “I don’t see you shitting the woods” without the important IN to clarify the picture you intended to paint for me. Okay back to reading
Another banger. Can’t wait to hear the shoutouts and if anyone I know is in them. 👀
I enjoyed the whole essay, but really I had to express my gratitude for providing a snappy comeback to those sociobiologists who justify cheating on their wives with a kind of gleeful helplessness. “What can we do?” they say. “It’s how we men evolved!” But, as you note, we also evolved without indoor plumbing, and somehow these guys never feel the same evolutionary pull for defecating outdoors as they do for cheating on their wives. Funny, that.