Now I'll never know what people mean when they say "those cupcakes won't fill a sauna"!
GraniteM
joined 2 years ago
There was a great interview with a woman who had written a book on the Manosphere and she said that it's "funnel-shaped," which is to say that the first stages are nowhere near as extreme as the ones they lead to. It starts off by talking to lonely young men and telling them that their feelings are valid and that they have value, both of which are things that young men very much do need to hear! But the pipeline then moves them from that to "Your feelings of isolation aren't your fault" to "Your negative feelings are women's fault," and then you're off the primrose path to "Women aren't people" and "Women deserve any horrible treatment you can think of."
But the earliest stages are ones of finding young men that aren't having their emotional or structural needs met, and filling that vacuum in.
Boy asks Pope if his atheist father is in heaven.
Humility, patience, kindness, grace, and rationality. Would that we should have more leaders like him in the future.
I got cold-called by one of those "We'll buy your house!" scam outfits one time asking if I was interested in selling my modest single-story, two bedroom / one bathroom house.
Me: Not really!
Them: Well, if you were going to, what price would you hope to get?
Me: You know what, let's say five million dollars.
Them: Uh... is this the house at [my address]?
Me: Sure is!
Them: And... five million? You're firm on that?
Me: Well, anything is negotiable, of course. I've got to go now, bye!
And I just really hope that I wasted a little bit more of their time that day, but if someone were to make a horrible paperwork error and accidentally offer me five million dollars for a house worth a fraction of that, that's really on them, I'd say.
If you think of it as a particularly dangerous symptom of mental illness it makes a lot more sense.
Funny you should put it like that...
“You all could’ve picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane, thinking I’m a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it,” the judge said.
Aw, I remember hearing about these years ago and thinking that investing in a cask of booze sounded so much cooler and more real than investing hallucinatory financial instruments or whatever.
That doesn't sound fair to Greenland if/when Trump loses.
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