typical of what happened across the south particularly in the seaports that there is a presence offshore with regular bombardments with excitement and the blockade runner would arrive but there was a lot of hardship but it is that people need to know about the al dash zeroth gore dramatic but it is an importuned part because a represents life lived by a lot of people wondered 50 years ago.

this program contains language that some may find offensive. [inaudible conversations] okay. i am very excited to introduce laura kipnis the first have a confession. i am a man. i selfie identify as male but i usually don't call myself a man. also determined so that

irony did term borough is comical but i the this lee explained behistun women on multiple occasions in something of the diva in bin it is relieve small and i have the nerve to call myself a feminist to massage a rare and misogyny. how do i do it? how do i sleep at night? luckily you can help me

figure it out. i'm excited to welcome laura kipnis the author of its ventures of bad behavior, her essays include harpers coming year times book review and slate among others. receiving fellowships from the guggenheim foundation and others hint she will read from her new book. [cheers and applause] >> stakes for that introduction in.

i have written about the men but rebating day coupler sections of the books the subtitle is notes from an ongoing investigation" and the thing that i learned tonight will i will include in the sequel. and then they use those terms affectionately. operators with sex scenes and haters. reading from the title regarding men in the section called the cheaters. here is how i set it up. >> men have fascinated me

they had trouble in the and take up a lot of space they force you to think about them. a daddy's girl minister to rummage around the criticism the last 15 years when at the random of what i call christine to cluster around the subject of men. what our men to meet? which led to rethinking and the right thing. with different one every few weeks. wishing you said years ago maybe you could be more generous or less. it is a pretty mont leave lots some more slav's some

were lover boy raised some more complete shit. this one brings out your funny side this when you are uninhabited this when you could never stop dead gene or correcting. has of any relationship there is a lot of projection. it goes without saying for the horizon the writers will though less than a novelist. is my coverts and the including those to thrashing in december. and i envy that. even with this stupid kind of freedom. i am not the only one preoccupied with men.

list of the time for men themselves. with the most persistent the with his masculinity in the tune to the specimen he made from the 1970's or so. he makes all kinds of fresh claims male rites and grandeur. no doubt i'd like that for a revision to have been writing about men getting my attention of was walking down the street minding my own business when they grabbed me from behind. so it is the selfie irony. the emblem of manhood.

with this objective neil wound. and i lately has been rereading. it would be tantamount to taking yoda vertebrae. with that in battered mail for a top for so with that castration was an ongoing threat not just something invented by freud. it perversely energized by the idea that women wanted to take it away. as the town hall debates to bring down the house that in advertisements for myself

and a good novel to do anything that the remnants. so what color ink is it? it graciously concedes there will have to agree the color is yellow. but most think they are bassoons but if i have always felt more complicated. put the best writers say faggot invented as a compliment but i shriek with delight every ever read the sentence. to has said church it

achieves the sublimity. but it is from the new man as much as the predecessor the updated version is no less irks some. today's mail is listless and emotionally paralyzed on it off the page. male desire may have been funny. that would not be satisfactory either. the kingpin of the younger rinks and mies and -- devices need to go on strike but wouldn't this be redundant? i finished up the process this way. we don't take men to seriously and not serious enough.

so in other words, don't think i am offering whistled as a model progressive of the subject of male cahow or female relations is the reverse but a ( veteran who wants to park her bike and the late tined side of the street means what? that they get more reviews space? or their characters say dubious things and the books don't get us? what a boring path to the promised land that would be. i hate to think feminism means retrograde identification for fantasy life. far better tear devour your opponents with a deadly

security of you already know. interjected and eat them alive. chew slowly. but now i skip ahead. [cheers and applause] klay and that the chapter called cheaters. if i had the line and off again with the married sports hero it is discovered to my dismay whole lot of other girls were simultaneously having affairs with the same sports hero when i still be justified to sell my tails to the media? i would ask myself this a lot when of a certain world

class golf champion was a preoccupation with their embarrassing revelations released daily from his harem. the answer would be maybe so. and with commentary in there is no high ground to claim. if famously included his ex from a distinguished literary precedent or as i assured myself. so i suspect it is maybe so. i can understand with tender 12 others to realize you're not a special and chosen as he sought but are one of the small crowd to demand score saddling.

batista you were different from the rest. but here's a question that crossed my mind is that married sports hero have that tension for sexual and romantic partners who feel the need to share their experience with the media? or is that sports hero just oblivious to the facts of contemporary life is said to sexual celebrity privilege. maybe they need to hear. that those most drawn our the save the cohort to sell you elevator or it may well

include your current spouse. if i were a tablet -- a tabloid worthy sports a woodland to know the of correlation sexual composes the to be a better psychologist with the psychological savvy is a quality that separates from those you don't. in the interest of promoting a more emotionally attuned celebrity sector right to offer a few cautionary observations to address mail celebrities hallie's those not cotton, amazing positions -- compromising positions gone is a day monica lewinsky only tells a dozen friends or relatives that midas will be nine.

something we're thinking about if you are famous our hope to become one some day. everything is personal but nothing is private with that digital revolution but the upshot is how we perform our rules and it is altered in a relatively short period of time to what used to be the public-private divide that is almost indecipherable. in social consequences is the traditional entitlements of celebrity status that they would tweet about your performance or preferences before the sheets are dry or

snap being naked photos to deploy she did you neglect to it to call the next day or disappoint which you will. to return to the case under consideration'' was it that legendary tiger woods conducted himself in a delicate manner. as a cave for word with their grievances with tiger's text messages what might he has missed? and then to come forward with their own grievances to scrapbook of paid full of memorabilia. so ponder the question what is the lower? especially buried once you prefer to keep your existence a secret?

they will call you when they come back to town if they can get away. to be charismatic they have an aura some terceira good-looking. so with that special spark by morning the main benefit is that it confers special this that he or she could choose any one. i will jump ahead. >> the part with their group dynamic of keith richards. [laughter] at least with that proximity of a celebrity limelight.

>> with the hit or miss the tensions that was bestowed under less than egalitarian circumstances that could be affected by greater than usual the quantities. >> was the of anticipate reading this out loud. [laughter] hoping that it magically will rub off from an unspecified fashion. as a confirmation seeker begins to realize the morning after to be at the next city to meet in decree to get the next admiring whole or. with an affirmation so it to

be lit up with the limelight to feel aggrieved or vindictive in such circumstances. i hope you all take that to heart. thank you. [applause] >> thanks for coming in now let's give one more round of applause. [applause]