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Celeste Davis
Personal blog · celestemdavis.substack.comculturepolitics
Celeste Davis writes Matriarchal Blessing, a personal blog at celestemdavis.substack.com about culture and politics. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Celeste M. Davis's Substack (blog 'Matriarchal Blessing') for her writing on male college enrollment, masculinity and the decline of literary fiction.
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Catharsis for your feminist awakening.
Most-linked posts?
- Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
What Hacker News says?
> explicit institutional discrimination Wild leap to a conclusion there. The article you linked makes some similarly strange leaps, based apparently on poor reading comprehension: > A baffling New York Times op-ed (“The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone”) casually confessed to systemic gender discrimination in MFA admissions. “About 60 percent of our applications come from women, and some cohorts i…
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on “The cultural decline of literary fiction”Submitted I'm a feminist and I think it's harder to be a man than a woman as a story · 35 points
HN discussionPreviously on HN, with some discussion spread across four posts over the past year: Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-col... > What has changed is an increase in girls. When you look at other areas where this exact same thing has happened, it is not such a head scratcher why fewer men are going to college. We’re j…
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on “Why American men think it's not worth going to college anymore”Submitted Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYou've misgendered the blog author here, and it's rather dismaying that you have no idea who she is. Her name is Celeste M. Davis; the blog itself is named "Matriarchal Blessing", and she's written rather extensively on the topic of masculinity. https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/maleness-and-patriarcha...
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on “Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?”Submitted Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? as a story · 3 points
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