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Hi Everyone, Happy hump day and thanks so much for reading the ADULT SEX ED newsletter! If you’re enjoying it, please share with friends, so they can be hilariously informed! Share Adult Sex Ed This is a weekly newsletter from me, Dani Faith Leonard , a comedy writer, film producer, and performer. It’s an extension of the live comedy show ADULT SEX ED that I’ve hosted since 2018. The show is about plugging the holes in our education as adults, so I’ll be doing just that (if you want to know more about this newsletter, here’s a description on substack).

You’re reading Wait, Really?, a newsletter unpacking what's in the culture, with a feminist spin. Want it in your inbox? Sign up below. The first thing I did when reading Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” was look up the word “phantasm,” which appears 41 times in the introduction alone. (It means illusion; the “phantasm of gender,” a threat rooted in fear and fantasy.) The second thing I did was chuckle about the title, because the answer to the question of who is afraid of gender was… well, me?

Since the pandemic, late-night eats have proved harder to find, but Hot Mama’s Canteen helps make Black Rock a wee-hours destination for hungry night owls. Seven days a week, at the corner of Military and Kail, Hot Mama’s serves as a neighborhood kitchen, turning out chonky housemade chicken tenders, wings in dozens of flavors, and the establishment’s specialite de la maison, a softball-sized stuffed arancine affectionately dubbed the Mama Bomb. 

A few weeks ago, I delivered a workshop for a major California developer that drew on the habits and behaviors in How Women Rise. We polled participants in advance and learned they were eager to discuss The Perfection Trap. This was not surprising. The company prides itself on getting all the details right. As a result, many of the women felt their choice was either doing everything perfectly or failing.

Hothouse is original climate journalism with a way to act. We dig into the evidence, figure out what works, and deliver the news to your inbox. It’s a climate solutions newsletter you’ll be excited to read. By Cadence Bambenek · Over 5,000 subscribersNo thanks“Practical tips on how YOU can do your bit for climate change.” “Hothouse is in the game of helping others understand climate change, and how to do something about it.

We’re back! Housekeeping notes: Aside from News and Stuff About Jews, this email is all housekeeping. On Monday, paid subscribers will get April’s ET Ask Home, a monthly questionnaire. However, there will be no regular edition of this newsletter next week, as I will be traveling. Wrapping up work and preparing for upcoming travel is also why you are not getting a a mini-essay this week. But after next week, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

By Mike Glenn [I apologize to Mike for not putting this into the post until I was notified. The tweets all had Mike.] The iconic phrase, “Houston, we have a problem,” was calmly spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. When the crew realized there had been an explosion in the service module of their spacecraft, Lovell alerted Houston of the problem. What followed was a miracle of leadership, technology and the human spirit.

Like a lot of things in college football, Bill Yeoman’s creation and usage of the veer option offense was the result of a fear of being fired. After an 11-18-1 start at Houston after being hired in 1962, and a 1-4 start to the 1965 campaign that had the young head coach firmly on the hot seat, Yeoman decided to try out something he had drawn up in the offseason.

When we first met John Wick, he was a grieving widow who had just lost his “way out.” That was his wife, Helen, a character that influences the story so much without ever stepping foot into it alive. At the funeral, John looked like a guy who won the lottery only to have someone tell him it was all a dream. What Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves built was a lean and mean story about a longtime hitman who kills his way out of the profession, so he can marry Helen and settle down.