Zoomers are not having sex. Sexual activity among young people is lower than ever. The expansion of online hook-up and dating apps has not changed this trend. While around 50% of 18- to 29-year-olds reported using dating apps in 2020, Generation Z seems poised to continue the decline of sexual activity since the mid-20th century. Really, this extends to all social activity: we drink less, go out less, transgress less, and socialize less than our parents and grandparents.
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The LGBT “community” has long grappled with internal fractures, particularly in relation to the distinction between sexuality and gender identity. The presumption that those who love non-traditionally and those who orient their gender non-traditionally share unified political interests has always been tenuous.
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I’ve recently given two different talks for the Platypus audience in which I’ve tried to articulate a problem I have with ideology critique.
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On March 14, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion at the Rationalist House in Auckland, New Zealand, with panelists Joe Hendren (Auckland Socialist Society), James Robb (A Worker At Large blog), and Robert Reid (FIRST Union). Platypus member Michael McClelland moderated the panel. An edited transcript follows.
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IRONICALLY, IT MIGHT ONLY BE NOW that the 21st century is really beginning. But this comes after the death of the Millennial Left, which strived but failed to be true to what was new and different about the 21st century, instead falling back on rehearsing and repeating the 20th century, to which it remained beholden.
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