But it isn’t true. It’s working right now in Norway, off the top of my head.

But I’d imagine very wealthy people would be willing to spend a pretty penny to convince people like you and me that it doesn’t work.

I think you’re right. Satire is for when there’s a subsurface level of corruption that needs to be brought to light in an entertaining way.

These times are not for satire. These times are for protests.

I am completely devoid of any experience of this manosphere. When I grew up, I’d ask for help from girls because I was crying all the time and I didn’t want to be crying all the time. Later learned it was from trauma. But most of the girls and women I talked to would say some variation of “why are men so afraid to cry?” like lady I’m not afraid, I just don’t want to, because being sad sucks. I want to stop being sad.

Or the doing the dishes, or taking care of babies, that was something that all the men did in my family, equally, going back to 1940’s Detroit.

And this kind of culture was the only one I ever experienced in school, partly because almost all of my teachers were women.

So to me, these memes about men being afraid to cry or do things seen as “feminine” are not just frustrating, they’re downright upsetting.

I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but are you sure it exists to the degree you think it does? Like have you taken a survey and checked the numbers, and if you did, are you sure you’re not confusing somewhere like NYC with somewhere like Birmingham, Alabama?

I’m confused what is masculine about this. Did the man fix the moon crater while the other man played sports in it?

family guy did it

Every time it’s ever been tried it has failed.

I don’t buy that.

Now they can make it illegal for all sorts of workers to strike.

Soviets, 1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

“Our objective is not to be the vassals of two hegemonic powers,” he told students in Seoul. “We don’t want to depend on the dominance, let’s say on China, or we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.”

European countries, he said, have a shared agenda with places like Japan and South Korea on issues like international law, democracy, climate change and global health.

You mean Russia forces them into the meat grinder. Ukraine defends itself.

If Editors taught me anything, it’s that some people can even get bored of beating up on the civilian populace, and instead turn to digging up the corpse of a recently deceased celebrity pop star and teaching them to dance.

https://youtu.be/Hj61PRYcBeA?t=24