God help us, Postmodernism and Critical Theory are intellectual malignancy.
Forget all the big words and the permutations - they are literally trying to twist logic to argue against morality. It's the same thing they do with literally everything.
Forget the sexuality arguments - take a simpler example: stealing.
Thou shalt not steal. Stealing is wrong. This is true in every human culture that I can think of save for some Pacific Islander nations where there was no external threat and they lived in relative abundance (but they are obviously the exception to the rule).
But is stealing always wrong? What about the person who steals to feed their starving family? There's a moral exception there.
Because black people have historically had a harder time feeding their families, and have historically suffered under unfair legal treatment, it should be excusable when they steal.
Throw some more buzzwords in there, hire an intellectual to make it sound compassionate and smart, and boom, this is how we arrived at San Francisco refusing to prosecute shoplifting.
The only problem -- this is staring into the abyss. And the abyss, by definition, has no bottom.
Yep. 100% Sympathize with men who go their own way. I'm lucky in that I was able to travel, met a great non-American with goals to move to America and make something of herself. Best of both worlds, really.
You're kind of right.
They're not the norm biologically. They've always existed, sure, through a confluence of brain chemistry outliers and individual circumstances (childhood abuse?). Most women, as you know, want to continue the normal biological rhythm of humanity.
But these kids are bombarded from an early age with "sex positivity" and all the malignant notions that come from that. Sex immediately loses its value and gets warped. Young girls get hooked up to immediate and constant validation via social media, and that turns into a slutty lifestyle and a lack of understanding of what sex and love is supposed to be.
It's a really deep topic that I could go on and on about, but I won't do that here.
True to an extent.
But I think the difference is -- women's manipulative tendencies are part of the biological processes in their brain. It's a survival mechanism above all else.
PUAs aren't operating on a survival instinct - they're essentially taking biology, understanding it, and finding out how they can manipulate it into a desired response.
That's kind of how I felt. I knew I was in this weird grey area where I was a male coworker, so I was outside of this lover/friend circle and they could let their guard down a bit.
The rest of the conversation was just as wild. "Oh, I thought you were staying at Guy A's apartment" "Oh, no, only when I don't want to pay for a taxi. I'm really more interested in Guy B but ... blah blah blah"
Just completely wild seeing and hearing behind the curtain. Repulsive, too, imo.
God, it always goes back to Tabula Rasa and the morons on the left trying to will it into existence.
That's the thing with PUAs -- they aren't wrong. What they do works, but it is a fair bit manipulative.
Men being confident attracts women. Appearances only matter so much (whereas they matter a lot in the other direction). I wouldn't consider myself particularly attractive in large part because I'm overweight, but I never really had a ton of difficulty in finding girls.
I very much just don't give a fuck about the games and am always willing to walk away from a shit deal. Women see confidence, and I don't end up wasting my time.
PUAs are so interesting, though - because they show there's a biological basis to gender and attraction, which flies in the face of everything academia wants you to believe.
Just wanted to reply to emphasize this.
About 5 years ago now I was new at a job in Seoul, South Korea, and I was trying to get to know my new coworkers. I'd quickly learn they were the typical early/mid 20s vapid SoCal types, but MAN, I was blown away.
I shared a cab with these two girls on the way over to Hongdae or Itaewon (Can't remember) and just watched them open their Tinder and interact with it.
Where any guy might take a little time and parse through girls, maybe send a message on one or two people -- these girls were just LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT... "oh, he's cute" RIGHT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT -- in about 12 seconds.
Then they bemoaned how the radius was only 200km or whatever.
The moment really stayed with me because I knew that's how it was, but it was totally wild seeing it live.
Kind of ironic I met my wife on Tinder a few years later (it's the only real way to date in Korea for expats. My wife is not American, though).
That's the one good thing about all this: our enemy is stupid as fuck.
I love The Big Short for a lot of reasons, but I usually think back to the pool scene at Caesar's. Protagonist's cousin works for the SEC, and he goes to her to see if there's any trouble brewing re the banks' malfeasance. He finds her being wooed by those same banks.
"Isn't there some law against this?" he asks out of frustration.
"What?" Moment of understanding "No. No! Do not ruin this for me." She says as she runs off to meet with the cute banker guy by the pool.
Journalism is another branch of the same poisoned tree.
In a world where we have to hear incessantly about unconscious biases that largely don't exist (or are blown out of proportion) --
-- I'd love to hear anyone acknowledge the true unconscious bias we have as a species to protect women from any and all perceived harms, even when they're self-inflicted and/or truly imaginary.
Instead of seeing this woke garbage (i saw half the trailer and immediately doubted the good reviews) - went and saw Stillwater instead.
It isn't perfect, but I did enjoy it. Had some actual, honest-to-god portrayals of the migrant crisis in the EU, and the hypocrisy of the liberals that support it.
Looks like I made the right choice.
That's actually being far too kind to Muriel Bowser.
Stretchen' Gretchen actually strikes me as intelligently evil - much like Klobuchar - in that she knows exactly what she's doing and is convinced that she is the most intelligent person in the room.
Bowser is an openly corrupt hypocrite who doesn't have any knowledge or skill in leading, but is very good at being a greasy wheel for her masters.
Yep - even getting kicked out of a restaurant because they don't want to serve non-Japs (and my Japanese sucks, so I understand) -- they're very polite about it.
I am acutely aware of the fact that weeby suburban nephews are not the same as Pakistani migrants.
But the trash we have in our inner cities? Who'd sexually assault and then beat a mentally ill/disabled woman to death?
Yeah, 50 years of fatherlessness and the welfare state have basically made them just as feral.
And not isolated to migrants in the EU. Similar story out of Wisconsin last year (I think?) Mentally-disabled asian american brutally raped and murdered -- I think those animals even took a video of it, too (Which is how they got caught).
IIRC in WI they were like 16-18 year old "kids," too.
They've spent their entire adult lives seeing men as a monolith, and are shocked when they find out they're not.
Warren Farrell wasn't right about everything in The Myth of Male Power (I don't think even he knew the depths to which feminists and society would ignore men who spoke for themselves), but touches on this:
Feminism taught women that men were pigs and oppressors, and so they have no capacity to understand male relationships. You'd have to be pretty fucking ignorant to watch that scene in Fellowship and think "GAY!" or expect people to laugh. In fact, I don't think the possibility of the thought ever even crossed my mind until this jackoff put it there.
"A snake oil salesman told me this snake oil worked"
I almost respect Anita for the power of her grift.
Preface: I agree it's not going to happen without radical change and pissed off people.
BUT, the Middle East is only important because of the value they provide (oil).
If and when that ever dries up, they're back to camels and no one cares about their petty squabbles.
Single mothers don't provide value. They drain value from everything.
Unless you were a corrupt politician who liked having a complicit and ignorant voter base to keep electing you to the gravy train.
Well, we need to bring back fathers.
It's been 50 years of single motherhood being celebrated and exploding in urban areas. Their children are old enough to have children.
They're all broken, mentally ill shells of humanity. They can't see it because everyone they've surrounded themselves with is in the same boat.
Really broad generalization - but my point is, we'll stop pandering to the mentally ill when we stop creating them and celebrating their creation.
The USA ain't gonna push it into shit, don't be fooled by the news.
The only thing that's happening are bad actors are coming to light in all facets of our educational system. The pushback is happening, and it's not stopping.
It's already happening. There's nothing we can do at this point except stay out of the way.
I remember when this whole thing was new and all we had was the early-pandemic propaganda from the CCP and their minions across the world. EVERYONE was scared, and with good reason (until data started to come in).
The point is, I expected people to be dropping everywhere. I expected public figures to be dying on a regular basis, and it'd really drive it home how serious this is. It just didn't happen. Of course there were a few, but no one earth-shattering or surprising (and most were in their 70s or older).
But with the vaccine, man, public figures dropping like flies.
Hank Aaron, granted he was old, but got the vaccine and died a couple days later.
This soccer "injury" over the weekend was sketchy too -- guy who was vaccinated less than 2 weeks prior drops "dead" and is revived with CPR. Obviously I don't know anything, but I'm pretty sure "player dropping on the field/court" is almost 100% fatal because it relates to a heart defect. That obviously isn't the case here.
Basically, aside from Long Covid, which I'm pretty sure is either a myth of psychosomatic -- I've seen more death and sadness since the turn of this calendar year than before it.
On reddit a couple/few years ago it was anti-vax all over the front page. I remember distinctly at the time being so confused by it - most people will never meet a hardcore anti-vaxxer, and even if you do, they aren't really putting anyone but themselves at risk.
BUT THAT DIDN'T MATTER TO REDDIT, and it was drilled into everyone "anti-vax = as stupid as flat-earth creationists" -- and so that same crusade was carried on to this new "vaccine." -- if you question it you're a retarded anti-vaxxer.
It's kind of amazing reddit had that trend 12-24 months before this became relevant for real, huh? But it was totally not planned at all.
Hilariously true.
My mom got her wallet stolen a few weeks back (her own fault, but still sucks) - and in the heat of the moment she let her racism slip out. This is a super progressive "love everyone" "Trump is a racist" "Orange Man Bad" "<Repeat MSM>" woman --
--by the time I was speaking to her she was ranting about how she should have profiled the thieves better - she knew it was weird for a black guy to be looking at rice, etc etc etc.
Lil' racist ol' trump supporting me had to say "whoa, now, don't you think that's a bit racist?"
(She'll get all the erroneous charges on her cards back - so don't think I'm heartless)
I was working my previous part time job and chatting with my boss, an older black guy. I have always tried to keep politics out of my professional life, so I had no idea how my boss voted.
Some customer came up to us and asked about an Obama exhibit the company had on display the year before. He was really excited about Obama and my best guess is he thought my boss would be too, because skin color.
After he had walked on I just mentioned off-hand "that guy is a big Obama fan, huh?"
Boss just deadpanned "well I'm certainly not."
Old dude let his based attitudes slip out.
Pains me how right you are. Bold to assume he'll ever be exposed to empathy, let alone learn it.