Cathy Reisenwitz

Huntsville

Contributor at Freelance

Founder and Writer at Sex and the State

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Free trade created your precious “traditional family”

1 week ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

The right is trying to kill global trade to protect the “traditional family.”The first funny thing about this is that they’re actually talking about the male breadwinner model of marriage and not, as discussed, the actual traditional family of subsistence farmers. They’re confused because everyone on the right is either allergic to an accurate depiction of history or is a lying (sorry, “Straussian”) Nazi fuck.
Cathy solves K-12: Get the fuck out

1 week ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

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Democrats: Stop talking about welfare

2 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

I have a lot to say about the Progressive Policy Institute retreat I attended in Denver, Colorado this past weekend. The Colorado Governor’s Mansion is gorgeous. I looked good the whole time, but especially Friday. Here’s the most important thing I can say: Fellow Democrats, please stop talking about welfare. Yes, that probably includes Medicaid. We met to figure out how Democrats can win back the working class. So allow me to offer my bona fides on welfare and the working class.
Gender fucks men: Rape edition

2 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

I’m starting to wonder whether the concept of gender hurts men more than women. Call me a pick-me-ass-bitch all you want (preferably in the comments, after you’ve paid to subscribe), but I think fighting patriarchy (or sexism or misogyny or, as I prefer to call it, gender itself) will be easier with a decent chunk of half the population on our side. If I’m right, it might be useful to elucidate how gender specifically harms men for recruiting purposes. This brings me to today’s topic.
Tokyo taught me to have fun

2 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

On one of the nine nights we were in Tokyo, my friend and I watched a British public television show about Japan. In it, a Buddhist monk compared monasteries in China with those in Japan. He said that Chinese monasteries have a lot of rules. But Chinese monks are pretty lax about following them. Japanese monasteries, by contrast, have fewer rules but more pressure to follow them properly. Japanese monks (are supposed to) serve as behavioral exemplars for the laity.
How many bottom-half men can the US profitably employ?

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

Friend of the newsletter (actual, not sarcastic) Nick gave me some thoughts on Why not retvrn men to subsistence farming? He starts out by admitting “This is a really funny idea lol.” That’s why I’m number 30-something in Humor, baby. But, he says. My post felt very Gell-Mann to him. Well, call me a creative class coastal elite. Because I know next-to-nothing about manufacturing. Nick does, though. So I’ll attempt to summarize some of what he wrote (with a little editorializing).
Why not retvrn men to subsidence farming?

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

The GOP is actively trying to impoverish the entire globe in the vain hope that a few low-skill, low-education Rust Belt male swing voters will return to work at a domestic assembly line. Really. “We believe that a million cheap, knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job,” sputtered friend of the newsletter J.D. Vance.
Wife beating is disturbingly common

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

I have a theory that wife beating explains a much bigger percentage of recent marriage rate declines than any of us cares to admit. I don’t have the very specific polling data I’d need to prove that I’m right. I do, however, have enough data to prove that my theory is plausible. Sex and the State is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Adolescence and a man’s highest and best use

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

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“Pro-natalism” should be explicitly feminist

4 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz |Ruxandra Teslo

It may not shock you to learn that, growing up, I loved reading, writing, listening to lectures, and arguing in class. Formal education and I had a love/hate relationship. As an Autist trapped in Alabama public schools, mild depression battled acute rage at the injustice and inefficiency of dumb adults wasting many hours of my time. College was private, infinitely more fun, and far less enraging. I still felt like it could have been faster.