šŸ”„ Post Your Hot Takes... Even the Oddly Specific Ones

I’d respond but I’m too lazy.

I gotta say, I’m surprised about the level of pushback i got over my comment. that was one of my more tame opinions tbh; that one is at least statistically supported.

Perhaps I’ll post a spicier one tomorrow so my phone doesn’t blow up overnight :smiling_imp:

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That’s a solid point

Duuude, that is so awesome!

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I say post all the spicy stuff tonight so you have a good morning scrolling.

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Fat shaming is a good thing and should be brought back.

Slut shaming would solve more problems than it would make.

Feminism is going to destroy the developed world through global male disenfranchisement and unfettered hypergamy, as it was designed to do from the start.

Bringing back bullying would probably help more than hurt. Too many people have never been hit in the mouth and it shows.

The US owning the world is absolutely ridiculous. We’re sitting here with the kind of wealth and resources that the world should be bowing to us or united under us. The fact that it isn’t is absurd. We’re too busy feeling guilty over conquering to do what we ought to be doing.

Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote if they’re not registered for the draft. They also shouldn’t be drafted out of nicety… I’m sure no woman wants to suffer what happens to captured female enemy combatants.

White supremacy has really helped out the asian community. Latin immigrants are effectively the white middle class of 50 years ago, but they’ve been too busy soaking up the liberal agenda to realize the left isn’t on their side. White people dont need to apologize for slavery. Black people need to stop blaming whites for all their problems, and fix whats going on in their own houses first.

There is only male and female, unless klinefelters. Anyone saying otherwise needs medical evaluation, and anyone coercing others to think differently needs to be put down.

I’ll see everyone in the morning, lol.

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Bravo

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I haven’t actually mentioned any bands I’m subjectively massively fond of. Is this just based on the mentioning of Radiohead, and the depressed, lonely trope their music often gets described as?

Either way, I don’t see it as a criticism. I can enjoy music whether I think it should have the reputation it has or not. Just this weekend gone I was belting out Wonderwall on the dancefloor with 100 others at a wedding. I even sang along to a Coldplay song at one point. I think music can still be enjoyed even if it isn’t anything that’s shatteringly unique or clever.

Even banging some sticks on some rocks on an island would satisy me.

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What’s the fun if there’s only consensus

I saw a Slayer tribute band last month in my town named Show No Mercy (as you know, that’s the name of Slayer’s first album). They were amazing. If I closed my eyes, I would have thought it was the actual band onstage, vocals and all.

That is correct.

My mom was a single mother, and a highly responsible one who worked like a dog as an ESL teacher full time and with an after school job on some days and on the home (job of two adults with kids), like literally in a constant state of work, chores, traffic, and errands for most of her waking hours. She never fell short on any responsibility raising us. She did a lot but she freely admits what should she could not do for two boys. She’ll just say, ā€œI couldn’t do it,ā€ regarding things men can do raising boys and this is exactly why she exhorts me to be highly involved in my son’s life.

As you know, there is a huge buzz about single mothers on the net these days (there’s even a Manospherian who seems to have an echolalic obsession with them). @jshaving What I don’t like is that there is no differentiation between women who are single mothers because of lousy sexual decisions and those with valid reasons (death of husband, infidelity, abuse, neglect, dereliction of duties). I know a very pretty, good, intelligent (pharmacist) woman who divorced last year because of emotional abuse and infidelity.

I can move this to the Miserable Man thread if anyone considers this a derail.

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I’d qualify and say ā€œphysical bullyingā€

Which you seem to allude to.

I’m just not confident that young children/teens think through the possible long term material costs (e.g.,damaged chances of employment) of cyber bullying to both the bully and the victim since stuff on the internet basically lasts forever

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I think he might be referring to tough love, ball busting, initiation, rites of passage, or whatever some men do to toughen up other men, not stuff that traumatizes them.

@Andrewgen_Receptors Can you expand on what you mean by bullying?

I grew up around (thankfully not too closely) a few violent, psycho bullies that most men couldn’t handle, because they were not violent and crazy themselves. Likely most normal people here wouldn’t be able to deal with them as young guys.

I don’t think that’s what is being referred to.

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People need to have shame in order to feel it.

Start with the bullies.

But not too guilty to stop buying stuff.

Given that most women, like most men, wouldn’t qualify for the military regardless, what’s the point?

Yes. I think so too
Most of this would be classified as ā€œbullyingā€ and be grounds for expulsion or lawsuits today

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I do mean physical bullying, to also include ball busting etc. Not taken to extremes, but physical nonetheless.

I’ve been bullied before. A few times actually. I got in fights a lot as a kid. Most didn’t really have winners per se, but those ones didn’t leave marks either.

I lost 1 fight to a kid who was literally 100lbs heavier than me. I still remember seeing his fatass lady fist hitting me in the eye when i was on the ground. I picked up martial arts the week after. Most of the bullying stopped, so did the fights… until a few years later at maybe 15y/o. Kid kept messing with me all year, would repeatedly try to hug me (because he knew i didn’t want him to… or maybe he was gay, idk. I seem to get hit on by a lot of gay dudes). The last week of school he tried to do this shit again. Little did he know I’d literally just gotten my black belt the week before and had been training for nearly 5 years. I pushed him away and he came back swinging… well I kicked the shit out of him. Cops got called, they questioned me, i told them he wouldn’t stop trying to hug me and then the school wanted to ramp it up to sexual harassment lol. I didn’t stop them; I’d made complaints before. Funny thing is the school ended up changing their policy on fights after that… maybe that was my fault lol. But at least his football buddies stopped fucking with me afterwards.

Once the cops realized i was trained by the same guy that trains them, they realized i wasn’t in the wrong at all. His POS (single, divorced) mom stopped trying to ā€œsueā€ us over his $150 phone i managed to break when i either kicked the side of his leg (dead leg style) or threw him on the ground.

Anyways, i only got into a small scuffle during a bar fight while i was a bouncer after that. Had i not been bullied, idk how i would have turned out. But i like me the way i am.

I also lived in a small town. City bullies are effectively gangsters, or will be soon. That’s a different story.

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Well aren’t you a little nihilist this morning.

The point is to show that privileges aren’t free, and those who have them - typically misuse them.

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Right.

There has also been an eradication of nearly all male spaces. Unfortunately, I believe many young men don’t even want such spaces as they are suffering from Mommy Syndrome.

If I continue on this I will move to the Male Misery thread.

In addition to that, White people need to quit being racist and recognize their own implicit biases.

I would like to think this was sarcasm but since it’s you I’ll say, physician heal thyself.