(11-09-2024, 02:17 PM)Uncle wrote: how the fuck are you supposed to talk about it in a way that pleases him?
"american families are concerned about girls playing sports with girls, whenever they see a girl playing sports with a girl they're like oh man that girl doesn't belong on this girl's team"
You can't. See the guys bio.
https://www.jaymichaelson.net/
Welcome! I’m a writer, journalist, professor, and rabbi. I’m the author of ten books, most recently The Secret That Is Not A Secret. My book The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth, won the National Jewish Book Award for scholarship.
As a journalist, I write articles for Rolling Stone, the Forward, and my Substack newsletter, and often appear on CNN. I was the Supreme Court columnist for The Daily Beast for eight years, and broke the story of Leonard Leo in 2018. I won the 2023 New York Society for Professional Journalists award for this piece on antisemitism. Recent video & audio are here. Articles are here.
In the academic world, I hold a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought, a JD from Yale, and other degrees. My scholarly work focuses on mysticism, sexuality, law, and, lately, psychedelics. I’m a Field Scholar at the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality, and will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in Spring 2025.
Finally, I’m a rabbi and meditation teacher, working in Jewish, Buddhist, and secular mindfulness contexts (like Ten Percent Happier). I also speak and teach often at companies, universities, religious institutions, and the like. Come visit me on Instagram or subscribe to my Substack newsletter, Both/And. Thanks for stopping by.
His last article is a pretty good read on why he is like this.
https://forward.com/opinion/672628/trump-election-jews-outsiders/
Quote:These last few weeks, I’ve been listening to The Cure’s excellent new album, Songs of a Lost World. Particularly in the last few days, its typically gloomy lyrics and brooding guitar work has provided an apt soundtrack to the news.
Listening to these now-aged rock stars reminds me of when I was a teenager, decades ago, hearing The Cure in their prime. Back then, they were the voice of all the misfits who didn’t belong in the mainstream society of the Reagan years — and I was definitely one of those. A nerdy, thin, Jewish, pre-gay intellectual, I had nothing in common with seemingly everyone else in my junior high and high schools. I didn’t go to football games, wasn’t trying to “get” girls, and didn’t celebrate Christmas.
Pre-gay intellectual.