Boundary

A core tenet of Wilson’s beliefs is that a patriarchal society, what he calls “biblical masculinity,” is both a religious mandate and “cultural gluten,” as he wrote in his 2023 book, Mere Christendom. “Without it, the cookie just crumbles to pieces in your hand, and is tasteless on top of that.” In a previous book, Fidelity: How to Be a One-Woman Man, he wrote: “The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” For that reason, he went on, the dynamic of a dominant man and a submissive woman is “an erotic necessity.” As Wilson put it in an interview with CNN last year: “Women are the kind of people that people come out of.”

The color gradient on this zinnia is giving me life.

Sharing flower photos seems more hopeful than most of the other shit I have to deal with.

Sade, No Ordinary Love, 1992

Over a dozen children at a YMCA summer camp in New Jersey became ill after eating chocolate they were unaware was laced with psychedelic mushrooms. What do you think?