RIP Dr. Ruth

What I remember is that she simplified sex in the 80’s as something that was simply a part of everyone’s life, not some super secret thing only the people “in the know” got to talk about and have knowledge of.

 

Dr. Ruth was original Hawk Tuah girl.

 

Its sad to see that we've gone from a credentialed sex therapist to an internet meme to get advice on sex.

 

See also: Dr. Faucci vs. Aaron Rodgers.

 

I listened to a podcast where George Packer, who writes a lot of foreign affairs articles, was invited to a dinner at the German Embassy hosted by Angela Merkel. Merkel was catching political heat because she had a relatively generous refugee policy. Dr. Ruth was somehow a friend of Merkel and was at the dinner along with Henry Kissinger. Packer said that Kissinger started advising Merkel not to admit to many refugees because adding different kinds of people to the population of a country sows social division. Dr, Ruth, who had been quiet, started in on Kissinger, asking how a fellow refugee from Hitler could say such a thing. Packer thought Merkel had planted Dr. Ruth at the dinner specifically to rebut Kissinger.

I thought that would have to be the highlight of any journalistic career to sit and watch that exchange.

 

She had many skills.

Dr. Ruth, Sniper

 

One time, I had a couple of hours free to look at her autobiography. I got as far as her being able to go to Israel after WWII. The part of the book that stood out to me was one time, after she had left her family on the kindertransport, she received a letter from her father.

On the letter was a stain. Her father wrote her an apology for that stain, and said that they didn’t have anything like butter that could make the stain, but he couldn’t waste the paper after he had written and write another copy because they had very little paper to spare.

Many years later, Dr. Ruth showed the letter to a friend. The friend wondered if the stain had been a tear from her father crying. Dr. Ruth said that in all of those years, she had never thought of that.

RIP

 

And Castellanos literally just hit a deep drive to center.

 

Hawk Tuah Girl graces Rolling Stone
and is dubbed 'Gen Z Dolly Parton'

 

Am I officially old if I don't get the Hawk Tuah references?

 

Either old or completely off social media.

Couple of weeks ago a Tik-Tok video of a young woman answering man-on-the street questions about sex went insanely viral when she described a favorite technique. It was pretty funny, and it spawned about 8 million memes.

 

Ah OK. I don't do TikTok.