Air conditioning is “sexist,” writes Taylor Lorenz, a staff writer for The Atlantic is a response to this anti-AC article in the New York Times:
Air-conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist. I can’t explain how many times I’ve gotten sick over the summer b/c of overzealous AC in offices. #BanAC nytimes.com/2019/07/03/sty…
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Yes, it’s men who are having the “meltdown”:
Dying at all the men in my mentions having a literal *meltdown* because I suggested raising office temps a few degrees in the summer. No amt of AC on the planet will help men online chill
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Lorenz is not alone in this thining:
This is a hill I am willing to die on. AC is so bad. You can’t even enjoy summer because it’s winter indoors (and in Ubers).
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This could go down as one of the hottest takes of all time:
Also, we’re going to need to see a few peer-reviewed studied on this claim, Ms. Party of Science:
You can't get sick from air conditioning, you nitwit twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/s…
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Because we would like to make the opposite argument:
Air conditioning allows millions of elderly Americans to live happy, fulfilling lives in the South and Southwest without dying. But yes, it also means you have to bring a cardigan to the office while you doxx the kids of people you dislike.
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It’s impossible to tell what’s satire and what’s not:
This belongs in The Onion. FFS, everything is sexist nowadays. twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/s…
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And here’s Charles C.W. Cooke throwing ice cold water on this hot take as well as the entire anti-ac movement:
This is probably the most boring of the inevitable summer takes. twitter.com/taylorlorenz/s…
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It’s boring because it’s inconsistently applied; we never read Luddite arguments against heating. It’s boring because, as a guy who has spent a lot of time in Europe and who has seen thousands die for want of air conditioning, it’s built atop a fantasy.
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And it’s boring because it’s always couched in up-to-the-moment woke language when, in fact, the argument is insufferably insular and privileged. Know who suffers the most from a lack of air conditioning? Elderly people. Poor people. Minorities in the South.
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#BanAC? I spent the summer of 2003 in France. There was a heatwave. I saw some of the consequences with my own eyes. Nearly 15,000 people died. per the NIH.
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I remember going to Intermarché and Carrefour and Bricomarché and Monoprix and Super U, and to every electrical store I could find in search of a fan. You couldn’t get one anywhere. Opening the window helped a bit, but I was 19. It was 40 °C.
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Air conditioning is ‘sexist’? Charles C.W. Cooke throws ice cold water on the anti-AC movement
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