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Hey, I pissed off liberals AND conservatives in one thread. Let's see you do better pal.
I'm a pretty liberal liberal, but...
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I’m with you. That author needs a couple doses of toxic masculinity.
No kidding there. I think I got through a couple of the “pages” and said f this crap
My favorite part is how he acts like a 2 year old asks profound questions.
Nothing manlier than right in the open taking something that rightfully belongs to another man and there not being a damn thing that guy or anybody else can do about it.
We're just going to ignore the elephant in the room?
..... Did he grow up to marry his father?
..... Did he grow up to marry his father?
"How come Wonder Woman doesn't wear pants?"
"Because, son, legs like these should never ever be covered up."
"Because, son, legs like these should never ever be covered up."
Ok, I didn’t get very far into that before giving up. That said, it did get my wheels turning a bit.
I think I would prefer a world in which non-biological expressions of sexual dimorphism aren’t regulated by a governmental or social rules or norms. (That would include both the left and the right’s notions of gender rules). I think I would like to think that outside of sexuality, gender is a mostly superficial and mostly irrelevant concept that would be better off not so highly prioritized as a determining factor in a person’s identity.
Perhaps this is a predictable and arguably invalid point of view of a cisgendered white male.
I think I would prefer a world in which non-biological expressions of sexual dimorphism aren’t regulated by a governmental or social rules or norms. (That would include both the left and the right’s notions of gender rules). I think I would like to think that outside of sexuality, gender is a mostly superficial and mostly irrelevant concept that would be better off not so highly prioritized as a determining factor in a person’s identity.
Perhaps this is a predictable and arguably invalid point of view of a cisgendered white male.
So resident soy-boy feels masculine calling another softie a soy-boy , after get so damn angry at the New Yorker. You can't make this stuff up.
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Sorry buddy, I'm a meat eater. Just like your mom.
I would have said for the same reason sprinters in the Olympics don't wear pants. It makes them run faster.
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I was hoping Lard Ass from Stand By Me would appear at the end and barf on everybody.
Nobody like a try-hard pal. You're just going to have be a piece of sh!t the old fashioned way if you want a shot at the title.
My main takeaway is that like 0.5% of the population ruminate on stupid bullshit like this.
I'm not talking about the overall philosophy of not imbuing your kids with proscribed roles from the past, a lot of parents consider things like that, others consider other factors.
I'm talking about this statement:
Get the fvck out of here man. You raise your kid full time while your wife works. Good for you, it's a good job. Lots of guys do it. You do it because she makes more than you can and has a more important career, and your job allows you to, and it's the best strategy for your family...just like everyone else who isn't rambling on about the patriarchy.
Just live your damn life like everyone else does with little successes and failures every day. Who needs your bullshit about how your arrangement is actually a very high minded and moral crusade, and some random meaningless shit you suck at is really a sign of your virtue and Very Goodness.
This doesn't make me mad or offend me in the content, I just find it annoying that these weird navel-gazing masturbatory ruminations are so common among the intelligentsia. I mean I get it that the New Yorker isn't exactly lowest common denominator stuff, but it's still crazy that he thought this was meaningful enough to create and send out into the word, AND a host of editors thought "Yes, this does have relevance to people." This is really niche blog shit.
I'm not talking about the overall philosophy of not imbuing your kids with proscribed roles from the past, a lot of parents consider things like that, others consider other factors.
I'm talking about this statement:
Get the fvck out of here man. You raise your kid full time while your wife works. Good for you, it's a good job. Lots of guys do it. You do it because she makes more than you can and has a more important career, and your job allows you to, and it's the best strategy for your family...just like everyone else who isn't rambling on about the patriarchy.
Just live your damn life like everyone else does with little successes and failures every day. Who needs your bullshit about how your arrangement is actually a very high minded and moral crusade, and some random meaningless shit you suck at is really a sign of your virtue and Very Goodness.
This doesn't make me mad or offend me in the content, I just find it annoying that these weird navel-gazing masturbatory ruminations are so common among the intelligentsia. I mean I get it that the New Yorker isn't exactly lowest common denominator stuff, but it's still crazy that he thought this was meaningful enough to create and send out into the word, AND a host of editors thought "Yes, this does have relevance to people." This is really niche blog shit.
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The drawings were pretty nice.My main takeaway is that like 0.5% of the population ruminate on stupid bullshit like this.
I'm not talking about the overall philosophy of not imbuing your kids with proscribed roles from the past, a lot of parents consider things like that, others consider other factors.
I'm talking about this statement:
Get the fvck out of here man. You raise your kid full time while your wife works. Good for you, it's a good job. Lots of guys do it. You do it because she makes more than you can and has a more important career, and your job allows you to, and it's the best strategy for your family...just like everyone else who isn't rambling on about the patriarchy.
Just live your damn life like everyone else does with little successes and failures every day. Who needs your bullshit about how your arrangement is actually a very high minded and moral crusade, and some random meaningless shit you suck at is really a sign of your virtue and Very Goodness.
This doesn't make me mad or offend me in the content, I just find it annoying that these weird navel-gazing masturbatory ruminations are so common among the intelligentsia. I mean I get it that the New Yorker isn't exactly lowest common denominator stuff, but it's still crazy that he thought this was meaningful enough to create and send out into the word, AND a host of editors thought "Yes, this does have relevance to people." This is really niche blog shit.
Other than that, you nailed it!
The drawings were mid at best.
😁
The truth is, this is, in terms of relevance to actual people, the equivalent of one of those (ridiculed) things where some nerd is SHOOK because in Season 2 Episode 4 Spock says he can't use a phaser in a low gravity environment, but then in Season 4 Episode 9, he DOES use a phaser on planet Splorgedick, EVEN THOUGH in Season 3 Episode 2, Picard SPECIFICALLY refers to Splorgedick as a 4.9x category planet which BY DEFINITION is a LOW GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT. W...T...F?
That's the equivalent of how totally nerd-niche this guy's Very Important and Very Good self examination of his not being able to roll a boat because of toxic patriarchy or whatever. Even Democrats or liberals don't think this way, it's the obsession of an extremely narrow slice of coastal post-grad white wealthy cocktail party socialists.
Every time I see this kind of thing show up in Serious Cultural Publications, I roll my eyes.
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You're gonna love this one!!!
An excerpt:
My personal relationship to masculinity is fraught. I spent my first 31 years moving through spaces where I didn’t feel I belonged, and I was often told implicitly or explicitly that I wasn’t performing maleness correctly. I cried often as a child, and a cousin once pulled me aside to tell me that as a boy I should never cry unless I had a cut running from my eye to my ankle. In high school, after telling my best friend that my grandfather died, he asked me to please leave his house if I was planning to cry.
Two years ago, I came out as a nonbinary trans person. Expressing my true gender identity did not immediately fix my relationship with vulnerability, but it led me to delve deeper into what vulnerability is and how it can operate. As it happens, vulnerability was having a cultural moment — as the topic of popular TED talks and the focus of groups invested in helping men evolve, such as The ManKind Project and Evryman (whose men’s retreats echoed earlier movements encouraging self-reflection in men, including Robert Bly’s “mythopoetic men’s movement”).
It has been exciting to watch as more men embrace vulnerability. At a men’s group meeting in 2019, I saw men like those I knew growing up taking responsibility for their actions and feelings. This was far from the new normal, but at least men were coming together to talk. I began to feel hopeful about the state of masculinity.
Opinion | This Isn’t Your Old Toxic Masculinity. It Has Taken an Insidious New Form.
From bad boyfriends to Jan. 6 rioters, men are using the language of vulnerability as a cudgel, feigning emotional fragility to retain power and dominance.
That's WHY she has superhuman speed. She doesn't wear pants.
It's aerodynamics or some shit like that.
All I know is I don't have superhuman speed when I take my pants off. It feels like I'm running faster, but really I'm not.That's WHY she has superhuman speed. She doesn't wear pants.
This New Yorker illustrated cartoon story is beyond ridiculous. I want to punch this soft-ass dork right in his soy-boy face! (Guess I'm still a slave to the patriarchy, sigh.)
