Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? Well, I've expanded on some of those ideas and picked up a few new digressions in an essay for First Things's On the Square feature. My essay is titled "The Sad Secular Monks" and here's a teaser quote: After graduation from college, young adults lose their deadlines. We stop making transitions as a cohort, and are expected to figure out when new stages of life begin on our … [Read more...]
Aaaahhh! Aaaaahhhhh! AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhHHHH!
August 24, 2012 By 58 Comments
That's my knee jerk reaction to Hanna Rosin's new piece for the Atlantic on whether women are well served by hookup culture. I'll get a little more cogent after the blockquote: But this analysis downplays the unbelievable gains women have lately made, and, more important, it forgets how much those gains depend on sexual liberation. Single young women in their sexual prime—that is, their 20s and early 30s, the same age as the women at the business-school party—are for the first time in … [Read more...]
Ending with a clinch, not a child [Sondheim]
August 14, 2012 By 54 Comments
This post is part of a symposium on Stephen Sondheim's Company. I really enjoyed Gilbert's post on the absence of children in a musical about marriage. This isn't a problem unique to Company, but I think it's more noticable these because Company seems like it's intended to say more about marriage. In most romances, the catharsis comes with a clinch, not a child. The couple run at each other in slow motion, the music swells, and the pair lock lips. Sometimes the camera will … [Read more...]
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