HeyJaredSpiritual Intellect
Rigorous essays on female psychology, cultural criticism, and the theology of technology. Where science, scripture, and the social world meet.
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The Grandma Is the Baby, and the Woman Is the Table (opens the original)
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In 1893, the French sculptor François-Rupert Carabin carved an armchair out of walnut and built its supports from nude female bodies, bent and folded into the work of holding a seated man. A little over a century later, Kanye West marked his 46th birthday with sushi served off the bodies of women. In 2025, Bianca Censori staged a performance in Seoul in which contortionists, bound in latex, functioned as dining tables and chairs. The fantasy did not modernize. It only changed materials.I have sp
Love Takes One Idiot (opens the original)
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Roland Barthes opens A Lover’s Discourse with a frank admission about the lover’s position in language and in life. “Am I in love?” he writes. “Yes, since I am waiting.” The waiting is the tell. The waiting reveals who, in any given arrangement of two people, has already become the idiot. The lover waits. The beloved does not. This asymmetry is not incidental to love. It is the condition of love. And yet we have built an entire civilization of romantic expectation around the fantasy that love ar
Dating Apps Are Population Control? (opens the original)
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Women withstanding Loneliness (opens the original)
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There is a form of courage that receives almost no cultural acknowledgment: the courage to remain alone until the right time. Not isolation. Not resignation. Not the passive acceptance of circumstance. But the active, difficult practice of withstanding loneliness long enough to discover who you are when no one else is filling the silence.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ItV1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
To Be Desired vs To Be Known (opens the original)
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There is a particular pleasure in being desired. It arrives as warmth, as confirmation, as the quiet relief of knowing one exists and is visible. Being desired means someone has organized their attention around you, found you significant, and granted you a certain power over their imagination. This is not nothing. For many women, it is the closest thing to recognition they have been regularly offered.But desire is not recognition. And the confusion between the two is one of the most consequentia
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