{"id":2831,"date":"2008-08-15T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T10:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/15\/sex-engineering-and-the-diffic\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T10:26:46","slug":"sex-engineering-and-the-diffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/15\/sex-engineering-and-the-diffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Engineering, and the Difficulty of Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in a difficult era for satire. It’s not that there’s a shortage of targets deserving a humorous skewering, but the obvious candidates are so quick to dive headlong into self-parody, as with this recent gem from the anti-sex movement:<\/p>\n

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It’s been linked in all sorts of places, but I think Matt Yglesias has it about right<\/a>: “If anything, characterizing the sex-engineering link in this manner seems overwhelmingly more likely to reduce interest in engineering than to reduce interest in sex.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We live in a difficult era for satire. It’s not that there’s a shortage of targets deserving a humorous skewering, but the obvious candidates are so quick to dive headlong into self-parody, as with this recent gem from the anti-sex movement: It’s been linked in all sorts of places, but I think Matt Yglesias has… Continue reading Sex, Engineering, and the Difficulty of Satire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}