YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

With over 100 million people talking to ChatGPT instead of each other, it seemed only right to ask the question: Is ChatGPT woke?

A deep dive into the 2018 documentary Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie, about some marketing executives who designed a "Curvy Barbie" for little girls even though the little girls said they didn't want it.

A women's college announces it will begin accepting cis men. The community revolts!

All the news that's fit to rant about. Two transwomen are prominent in the media at the moment - one is accused of murder, and one was recently executed for murder. Why is the media treating Nikki Secondino like a cis woman, while focusing on Amber McLaughlin's transness to the point of ignoring her victim?

All the news that's fit to rant about. Snuggle parties are dystopian madness: Here's what snuggle parties reveal about our tendency to repress and self-oppress.

A deep dive into Don't Worry Darling, the latest in a spate of films and TV series celebrating women liberating themselves from the illusion of heteronormative happiness by murdering their husbands.

Transphobia! Racism! Misogyny! Body shaming! Contemporary culture is obsessed with stamping out these evils, yet quick to perpetrate them against the politically incorrect. Consider the case of Rachel Dolezal.

All the news that's fit to rant about. J.K. Rowling's new Galbraith book gets labeled transphobic, while a Virginia judge deems Maia Kobabe's child-porn book fit for kids. In other news, Lana Del Rey gets fat and no one's allowed to notice.

All the news that's fit to rant about. A Southern sheriff issues an ominous warning (and a slew of assault rifles) to rural school teachers, and a New England community refuses to prosecute a man even as he continues to terrorize them.

After Twitter meanies gang up on A. Talmage, he offers some thoughts on the use of the word "Nazi" in an increasingly polarized landscape.

The New Yorker kicks off its weeklong "Family Issue" with an in-depth endorsement of Feeld, "a hookup app for the emotionally mature." Budding Roses, a summer camp in Portland, Oregon, teaches kids how to survive police brutality and the evils of the patriarchy.

Some thoughts on our polarized political landscape in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In this episode we discuss the unintended consequences of separating gender from biological sex, the increasing divisions within the left, the narcissistic nature of modern narratives of meaning, and other topics.

All the news that's fit to rant about. National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman proves you don't have to be good...you just have to be woke. Trans actor Elliot Page proves it's okay to be manly as long as you're trans.

A. Talmage talks with Dr. Andrew Hartz about the infiltration of the therapeutic industry by progressive identity politics. They discuss the trend of therapist activism, wokeness as mental health, race and gender based hostility of therapists toward their patients, the need for therapists to provide a safe space for non-woke feelings, the mental health implications of using judgment and shame to force people to repress their feelings, the parallels between woke bullies and wife beaters, the parallels between antiracists and homophobes, the ways that widespread institutionally enforced cultural repression leads to a shallow culture, identity politics as a form (and cause) of mental illness, borderline personality disorder, splitting with regard to race and gender, the need for ambivalence, how splitting can destroy an inpatient psychiatric unit, how splitting devalues human beings and justifies abusing them, the ways in which reason has been distorted socially on a widespread level, and how trans issues went from off the radar to unarguable in the field of psychology. Read Dr. Hartz's publications referenced in this episode: "Leftist Extremism Is Turning Therapists And Counselors Against Their Own Clients": https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/02/leftist-extremism-is-turning-therapists-and-counselors-against-their-own-clients/ "A Diagnosis for American Polarization": https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-diagnosis-for-american-polarization-11604447133?mod=hp_opin_pos_2

Daily shootings, Trump '24, gender fanaticism, Margaret Atwood ... is it time to expatriate?

A summer camp for children gets gender inclusive, and A. Talmage earns his Ranting badge

All the News That's Fit to Rant About. Johnny Depp gets his day in court despite being a man. Ezra Miller throws a chair at a woman, which is worse than throwing a chair at a man, but the important thing is that Ezra Miller is nonbinary. Disney heroically protects us from the dangers of The Muppet Show. Local elementary school children show their love for Identity and Diversity.

Some thoughts about the Parental Rights in Education law, more commonly known (thanks to its critics) as the Don't Say Gay law.

A deep dive into the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan, chronicling the rise and fall of the queen of vegan cuisine Sarma Melngailis.

A deep dive into Turning Red, the latest disaster from the formerly great Pixar.

Eleanor talks about her experience getting canceled at a top art school and being assaulted on the streets of Chicago, proving (despite what you might have heard) that there is at least one decent straight-cis-white man in the world.

Think you're safe stating your opinion in your own home? Just ask Rosie Kay, the famed choreographer who was ousted from her own dance company for offending her dinner guests.

All the News That's Fit to Rant About. Valentine's Day edition! "Love'" in the modern age, Julia Fox's new Birkin, Eleanor's dislike of the cottagecore aesthetic, and more!

All the News That's Fit to Rant About. Lia Thomas in the locker room, Snow White without her dwarves, Harry Potter trigger warnings, and more!

Is it wrong to be a fascist if you're right? Not according to the modern university. Consider the cases of Amy Wax and Allyn Walker.

After J. K. Rowling gets snubbed from the Harry Potter reunion show, A. Talmage offers up some rants on the "transphobic" slur, the return of the Thought Police, and social justice bullying as a mental illness. And his obsession with Jenna from Pretty Little Liars.

Harry Potter, OCD germaphobes, the problem with "Born This Way," the recasting of women's self-defense as victim-blaming, feminists in search of chivalry, assault prevention training for alligators, and much more!

A guest speaker comes to class to teach women that marriage is bad. A. Talmage talks about why the BLM protests of 2020 made him give up on humanity. Calvin and Hobbes are revealed as the mad geniuses behind woke politics.

A reference to Emile Ratelband kicks up all kinds of issues. Women and the draft, cross-dressing ballet, the perpetual myth of male-dominated everything, the time A. Talmage got sexually harassed by a professor, mansplaining versus suffersplaining, toxic femininity, and other topics.

Working as a sensitivity reader, Dave Chappelle's "The Closer," apologizing to bullies, how fixating on micro-aggressions blinds us to real social progress, the manufacturing of transhood, the taboo of acknowledging biological difference between the sexes, feeling excluded as a vegetarian, secular fundamentalism, the difficulties of teaching social justice obsessed students, and other topics.