These two having any kind of conversation would be fucking hilarious. Absolute opposite ends of the spectrum of narcisstic assholes, they would both go insane trying to out alpha each other while being completely unable to communicate in any way that made sense to each other.
WUN PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
And then beat them to death with a bat.
This… doesn’t look real? Like, what position is that cat at the top in?
Not calling anyone out, obviously it could be legit, just looks very strange to me.
I mean, “almost half” means that the majority still want to vote for him.
Soulseek is the best option I’ve found for this: https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1
It’s an old style file sharing app, like Napster and Limewire, but is focused on underground music. I’ve been using it for years and had no problems with spyware or anything like that.
Yeah that’s exactly we did, had a couple of big wipe outs on the crazy stairs we were doing 180s down and were just like, is this all there is? And even if you’re doing grinds that’s like, one trick (no matter how many different angles you can position your feet when you do it).
I save my knees for basketball these days, but I miss the skateboard.
I think the realisation that rollerblades are pretty boring once you’ve become decent on them had a lot to do with it. Unless you’re going to get into serious acrobatics, there just isn’t a wide variety of tricks you can do on blades, compared to skating.
Thanks for this well thought out and nuanced opinion.
I’ve rejected these ideals my whole life. I was bullied as a kid but once I got out of school I found my people and never looked back. Never had a problem with women, the ones I dated found my emotional openness attractive. I’m successful in my professional life, tech lead at a financial software company.
I understand that different places have different degrees of pressures for this kind of thing, but what you’re saying is a lie. You’ve been programmed by the system to believe it and it is probably making you miserable. And if you have kids, it’ll make them miserable too. It doesn’t have to be that way. I feel bad for you.
You say yourself here, “the media influences gender norms… at least as much as”. Yeah, of course, it is a problem throughout all layers of society. Your earlier comment seemed to be saying that blame should be mostly with the 1%? I’m not sure what you are saying here.
Media perpetuates these ideals but they didn’t originate with them. These ideals of masculinity have been around for hundreds of years before the modern media.
To my mind the central mechanism for systemic control by the patriarchy is enforcement of gender roles. Men should be like this, women should be like that. Of course there will be ideas of masculinity in any society, patriarchal or not, but I think the aggressive enforcement of those roles and punishment for deviation from them is specifically an aspect of patriarchal systems.
I literally quoted from the Tumblr post about patriarchy. You sound way too online.
Ideals of masculinity aren’t instilled in children by the 1%, they are perpetuated by parents and peers at a personal level.
The ones at the top of the hierarchy aren’t the ones instilling these toxic ideals of masculinity in to young men. Parents and peers are perpetuating this on a personal level.
I’m not quite sure what you’re saying here? You don’t think that the masculinity that gets taught to men is a problem for their mental health?
I just reeled back in my chair, this is literaaly me.