I know you’re joking, but I don’t get people who unironically think like this. Like whats preventing a woman from eating lots of meat and losing money on sports betting? Like what physical barrier prevents them from doing that? None.
So how could that define manhood?
Just waiting for the day when someone can explain to me what makes a man a man without describing skills, qualities, and actions that anyone can do regardless of gender.
And don’t tell me it’s “have a penis”, because if that were true then effeminate men wouldn’t be insulted all the time for not being “real” men, and there wouldn’t be toxic masculinity.
Empowerment is when people make themselves subservient around you? If you need everyone around you do defer to your ego that’s not empowerment.
Yeah because no one ever picks an online username that doesn’t perfectly represent their irl personality 1:1
You have no idea how this person behaves offline, you’re just reacting to their username
Algorithmic social media just ruins everything. Once twitter and facebook started pulling out all the stops to keep us on their sites instead of letting us use them as a starting point to connect and/or simply augment our existing irl relationships.
I think a lot of the attitude I saw on mastodon about this like a year ago was one of suspicion that they wanted an open network but didn’t use the fediverse standard
depending on jurisdiction they can’t just arbitrarily raise rates
Assuming bring grounded means the same thing for most people as it meant for me, the only thing this kid could have done with his free time while grounded would be chores or reading. Don’t really blame him for lashing out, it always felt like a prison sentence when I’d get grounded.
Why are strangers under any obligation to validate each other?