Toxic Masculinity in the West

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Meryl Streep said that women can be "toxic" She was responding to a tweet from her stepmother, who agreed with the statement. The writer says she thinks there is no upside in calling out toxic masculinity unless you're Meryl Streep and completely untouchable. Picking a label for something like that is tricky, because it ends up alienating the very people whom you're trying to convince.

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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