Spock and Valerie Solanas Meet for a Coffee Date at the Big Starbucks in the Sky
Elizabeth Harper Elizabeth Harper Elizabeth Harper Elizabeth Harper

Spock and Valerie Solanas Meet for a Coffee Date at the Big Starbucks in the Sky

Valerie, to Spock: One concern I have is your allegiance to logic and rationality, which, while admirable in itself, has traditionally and nominally been used to silence and stupefy females. Males accuse females of being irrational and emotional in order to delegitimize the experience of females and deny the relevance of their emotions, when in fact, emotions—especially anger, hatred, and love — are perfectly logical.

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The Rabbit Hole of Sewage and Unrestrained Horror
Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall Don Hall

The Rabbit Hole of Sewage and Unrestrained Horror

In the dawn of the New Era of Emotional Primacy, the concept that our emotions are the most intelligent approach to decision making is just as shortsighted and just as completely chuckleheaded. As I've written before, in a world of Kirks, we need a few more Spock's. Spock generally walked the Good Captain through the consequences of his poorly thought-out actions.

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