Men! We know how to be friends!
If you are a disaffected young male in the West, go ahead and read 10 Rules -- it will probably benefit you and your life.
The man, however, will leave a lot to be desired. Never meet your heroes, and all that.
Nah.
If we ever actually get to that point we would actually be screwed. You only rebuild to that extent after everything is razed to the ground... and there would likely be a lot more things "peacefully" razed in the process.
Just be careful what you wish for on that front. I 100% agree that academia is one of the leading sources of cultural and societal rot, but I do also think that most leftist institutions would crumble if any sort of oversight or enforcement came in.
Think about it: specifically over the last 20 years how much has tuition gone up? How much of that has been reinvested into actual education (better facilities, top-notch faculty, and research budgets)? It is nearly all tied up in administration and bullshit.
Shine a light on it and the roaches will scatter. It will be like Twitter - they will all bitch and moan about how fascism or nazism has arrived and how the institution is dead and then suddenly academia will function better when 50-75% of the admin is gone.
It isn't perfect or finished in that scenario, but you probably wouldn't be as pessimistic.
Yeah but I am clearly not talking about that.
Take out the marxists, the critical theory, and Foucault and all this bullshit goes away.
No one will do anything until its too late and then the backlash will be just as bad.
Sigmund Freud ruined psychology, but because everyone was on his dick for so long the entire field focused on boring fucking Behavioralism for a generation because they were so afraid of veering into unfalsifiable concepts like Psychoanalysis.
The same thing will happen on a larger scale. English, Philosophy, Art, and more will essentially disappear for most of our lives --- and to our detriment!
The fact that these fields are full of smug midwits with axes to grind doesn't change the fact that they are valuable things to ponder and study in a vacuum.
That's the fucked up part.
The left has slid so far into crazy land that the Radical Feminists start to sound rational.
Chances are this girl is such a narcissist she doesn't know how to participate in something that isn't 100% about her -- even brutal shaming.
Not only is it a loaded word - the blame is in the wrong direction!
Basic skepticism, internet savvy, and googling ability are tools most people should have at this point.
Bullshit will always exist, but this is the first time in history when the idiots who believe it aren't being held responsible for their gullibility.
There is something so seriously wrong with this.
Okay, the lunatics had their little experiment to test their hypothesis. It was a resounding failure (serious head injury, a "male" goalie needing time for their fragile fee fees, mutiple delays, obvious biological differences). This should be the point where all involved take a step back, re-evaluate what they are seeing and doing, and make new conclusions.
But no one gets the opportunity because all that bad shit gets pushed under the rug. No one ever has to confront consequences or failure or wrestle with cognitive dissonance, so nothing changes.
This is why society is driving off a cliff - how do we fix it?
Way too fuckin' much.
I suspect (again, suspect) that the cognitive dissonance became too much for him. He had all the data, all the context, and all the experience, but he could never make the conclusion that liberalism is a disease.
He tried to say obvious things while still being in the system and it broke him.
At least that's the theory I am going with.
And somehow it all goes back to the postmodern idea that nothing is absolute, nothing is innate, everything should be deconstructed and perverted and subverted.
Of course -- you and I know that as plain as day.
My point is that there is a significant chunk of blue voters who either don't know what is happening or don't want to believe it.
I have family members who fall into this category (and several old friends) and it is quite literally that meme with Patrick Star and his wallet.
It usually goes something like this:
"If a person came to you and said they want to cut off an arm to alleviate their body dyphoria, would you affirm that dysphoria and cut it off?"
"No, of course not."
"What about a person who wanted to blind themselves for the same purpose?" (Which has actually happened and was the subject of a Dr. Phil episode)
"No, of course not."
"So why don't you have the same reaction to someone who wants to cut off or remove their sexual organs?"
They never have an answer... or a satisfactory one at the very least.
There is no thought behind it. Tolerance is the virtue and being okay with genital mutilation is tolerant. The messaging is so pervasive that it never even reaches the point of cognitive dissonance.
I would bet a large sum of money that a significant plurality (if not outright majority) of blue voters would act very much like red voters if this shit affected them personally.
But then again... that's why the groomers in schools want kids to be disconnected from their parents until its too late and they have ensnared the kid.
Please note I'm not discounting these studies out of hand, because data are data
The first article is basically citing a survey done by someone named Debby Herbenick who seems to be the same kind of pseudo-academic media slut we've seen all throughout the Plandemic.
Also, the way she speaks about her research raises an eyebrow:
"People who study adolescence and adulthood, many of us have seen an overall delay, right?” she says. “Like teenagers are taking longer now to get their first driver's license. So it's not even just about sex. Like there's not as much drinking alcohol."
Far be it for me to criticize the way someone speaks, but this is not the way I would speak about my own research and it is not the way I want other researchers talking about their research. It sounds unprofessional and flimsy.
My last big criticism is that she doesn't seem to care much about the implications. This is consistent with my hypothesis that academics are completely blind to Western Civilization hurtling off a cliff.
Second article... oh, it's this lady again with the same data. Not really a second source.
Honestly these data could suggest that Hypergamy is actually out of control, not the opposite. Instead of low-status males getting left out in the cold (incels), now you're seeing low-status and medium-low status males as well as low-status females.
IMO, the problems we see with boys and men are merely the canary in the coal mine. Feminist/Leftist policies are disastrous for everyone eventually.
Funny -- it's been a decade but yet I believe that was the same conclusion I reached as a 2nd year graduate student in Sociology -- I resigned and left academia, convinced that the esoteric bullshit would take a little bit longer to take root.
This ideology is a one way trip over the precipice - and nothing has changed my mind.
The tolerant left still exists.
They're completely and willfully ignorant of the direction of the modern left, or rationalize it away because in their brains "Blue > Red" and that supersedes.
You know who I'm talking about -- the hippie/woodstock traditional 2nd wave feminist types. They're tolerant themselves, but will vote for people who want to put you in camps.
...but they still exist.
I mostly just don't care about her. What feeling I do have is basically just pity. I strongly suspect that she is deeply unhappy with herself.
It is a shame, because she does have talent. In a different timeline she could have been a hell of an artist. Too bad she is basically a pawn for the "fat acceptance" crowd and plays down to the lowest common denominator.
The best pawns never know they are being used.
Example: current press sec compared to raggedy ann psaki
I am a big fan of stand up comedy -- I especially love going to little clubs where I can find them and trying to find some good up and commers.
I always root for the women, but far too often its the old "I am so slutty" or "here's my vagina" -- its disappointing and unfunny.
There have been a few gems over the years though... no one famous, unfortunately
Edit: if anyone is curious - I found this video of a lady I saw on a cruise ship once: a legitimately funny woman who doesn't resort to sex stuff. But don't expect dave chappelle level laughs: https://youtu.be/TKGHurGhuJA
Agree insofar as black people are getting played. By your username I suspect we differ a lot, though.
Interesting. They are definitely plants (Tulsi? Really? Yes I saw the 'announcement' yesterday) -- but how much overlap is there really between AOC simps and Tulsi simps?
This is the beginning of the Great Schism in the Democrat party. If the GOP crushes november, which I feel is increasingly likely, the fragile alliance of the dems is toast.
The progressives are going to try to push the party dinosaurs over the cliff into oblivion, but they forget all the money is with the neolib/neocon establishment. The real money in Washington would rather pay for senile and corrupt Feinstein to dodder around with a rubber stamp than to give a red cent to the people who celebrated CHOP in Seattle.
This is going to get really ugly, I just hope the republicans can use it to their advantage. I unfortunately suspect, however, that the neocons are going to get involved (uniparty gonna uniparty)
Yep. A healthy society would not be so rife with desperate and sad men, which beggars the question of why
What mechanisms do they exploit? What biological factors? What sociological factors? What psychological factors? What is cultural? What is innate?
All of these are valuable questions if we are to understand the damage and rectify it.
Again, we are more allies than enemies but I disagree with you on this.
You choose to die on some weird hills, Imp.
The world is fucked up. There are mentally ill people, damaged people, evil people, and irreparably fucked up people walking around us each and every day.
While I do agree with most of your central thesis around these parts, I disagree vehemently with you here. Of course these women in question are exploiting men and of course I find it questionable, but I can't disagree with the other guy that it's interesting precisely for those reasons.
How are we ever going to get past it and grow if we don't have good researchers studying the hows and whys?
Psychiatry is 'mental illness affirming' care.
People who want to improve their mental health go to therapy - this is true in 99% of cases. There do exist situations where psychopharmacology is warranted, but they are vanishingly rare compared to what people have grown accustomed to.
...and therapy should also be utilized in conjunction.
They are. That hasn't changed.
I don't think this is in relation to the clotshot at all, if I'm being honest. It's the same shitty leftist policies regarding crime/bail and repeat offenders.
I am kind of convinced at this point that the powers that be really did go kind of all-in on the shots, and even they didn't quite believe how bad it could be.