(extract) “But let’s be decent human beings for three seconds and admit something: the Pick Me Girl doesn’t sprout from nowhere. She’s not some villain of patriarchy fanfic. No – she’s reacting to something real: perceived or actual scarcity of good men."

(extract) “Ah, “love at first sight” – the favorite lie of rom-coms and your aunt who swears she just knew when she saw Uncle Bob at a Grateful Dead concert. Spoiler: what they felt wasn’t love; it was dopamine doing a drive-by shooting in their nervous system."

(extract) “Everyone knows the mushroom cloud image: one flash, one fireball, one city erased. But the real nightmare isn’t what happens in the first minutes of a nuclear exchange – it’s what comes after."