Month: October 2024

Brotopia Cannot Exist

Chill Politics, Rant

‘They’re Just Over It’: How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement.

The reaction in many ways doesn’t make a lot of sense (as in actually solving anything1), but that there was a backlash is completely predictable.

For a couple of decades now since it curdled into uselessness, feminism has been spouting the idea that men are inherently evil (Schrödinger’s rapist), that an unattractive man just minding his own business and existing is “creepy,” and that men are responsible and accountable for everything, while women should have power with no responsibility or accountability.

Needless to say, that puts many men off and makes them angry. Including me. I just don’t think that punishing or hating women for it will actually fix anything. Nor will voting for Trump.

But yeah, it’s perfectly understandable to not want to vote for a party that’s supported people and still contains some people that tell you that you are inherently terrible.

Big fucking shock.

  1. Since voting for Trump won’t help them and will likely hurt nearly all men.

Expectation Expectoration

Chill Regular-ass Post

Why do men seem so much more desperate to find partners than women, generally speaking?

Contra what women tend to think, most men aren’t desperate — it’s just that they are the ones expected to do nearly everything to start and form a relationship. It’s all on men to face storms of rejection, being called a “creep” simply for existing and trying, and paying for dates, etc. It’s all on men.

Women could change this equilibrium but won’t, because on the surface it benefits them too much (though hurts them in ways they don’t acknowledge).

Chill Links

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data.

Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC.

Location tracking of phones is out of control.

Top ten most annoying advice while not able to find work.

AI Discrimination Risk: Workday and Other HR Software Under Fire.

New Ways To Stretch F/A-18 Super Hornet’s Range Sought By Navy. Gonna need that in the South China Sea.

Producing Lithium Is Slow and Dirty. Is There a Fix?

As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse.’

Trump is promising voters the moon, and the only way to deliver will be to smash the system that has kept inflation contained for the last forty years.

The MAGA Threat to American Greatness.

The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations. One candidate gets graded like a normal candidate would. The other gets excused for talking about Arnold Palmer’s junk.

Volumetric Energy Density of Lithium-ion Batteries Increased by More than Eight Times Between 2008 and 2020. I remember when this was “impossible.”

Ukraine’s population has fallen by 10 million since Russia’s invasion, UN says.

Fat acceptance has ruined my life.

Elden

Chill Politics

That is messed up indeed. It’s possible that the election from the popular vote perspective will be a blowout for Harris but Trump still might squeak out a legit win due to those elderly white people and our doofy Elector College system. No coup required.

We really might see Harris win the popular vote by 54%+ but still lose. Now won’t that be something.

Hating Men

Chill Clowns, Rant

I don’t agree with everything in this piece, but Jesus Fucking Christ.

Just for a personal story of what they attempt to impress in the minds of men, I remember one guy I used to know before I stopped talking to him during covid- who apparently now goes around claiming to be a woman- who shared some meme arguing that boys should be taught that if they ask a girl out and she says no the proper thing to do is cut off all contact with her. This was somehow supposed to empower women and prevent harassment while making boys understand how to interact with women. In reality, it requires profound blindness to not see it separates women into a dichotomy of those who will have sex with you and basically bitches who hate you that you are not to speak to. No space was left for trying to get to know her better, doing something to impress her, or even just the possibility that in her feminine nature she was hoping a man would try a little harder. [In reality, one study showed that 45% of men between 18 and 25 have never approached a women in person, while 77% of women between 18 and 30 wish men approached them more, making this one of countless examples of how ideological liberals and leftists are totally detached from how normal people feel.]

That’s the fucking dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, what the person in the first part of the snippet proposed. I’ve had some really good friends (and later, even, romantic partners) result from me asking a girl out, her saying no, but we became close friends after that.

And I see posts ALL THE TIME on Reddit where women ask, “Why does no man ever approach me? I’m not ugly and I’m friendly!” Well, that’s because men are told over and over and over and over and over again that approaching any woman in public in any context makes you an evil harassing abuser and you should never, ever do it. So that’s why. Who would want to risk the usual rejection, becoming a “star” on social media and potentially having their entire life ruined because you asked some woman out in public?

Fucking no one, that’s who.