Doubling Down on Mentorship

That’s a terrible title, but you’ll see where it came from later on.

I wrote a post a while ago in which I took the very brave stance that mentors should not sexually harass their protégés, and that they should do their best to remember this sage advice any time they get attention from someone of the “right” sex/orientation*. It’s probably not because that person wants to join genitals with you, it’s because you’re a mentor and people are naturally going to look up to you.

Mentorship

Today we’re dipping into the Impenitent Porn Lover mailbag and answering some reader mail. Oh look, here’s a good one:

Dear Thinking Inside Your Box:

Remember when you wrote about how porn impacts our view of women? Or your post on feminism? Or that weird post you wrote about control groups and carrots? What would happen if you were to combine those together into one post?

Sincerely yours,
Thinking Inside Your Box Pretending to be a Reader

An excellent question, astute reader! It would probably look something like this:

I’ve never mentioned what type of work I do (and doubt I ever will), but it’s one of those twenty-first century jobs enabled by the computerized revolution, where people can make shitloads of money without hardly even trying and kids in their early twenties suddenly have nearly limitless expense accounts at their disposal. Not to toot my own horn, but it’s also a job I’m pretty fucking good at.