i have seen this post on my dash 7 times now and every time i think more loudly, 'this is what Batman villain The Penguin's dialogue sounds like when they let him be fun to watch.'

ooooh the radfems are BIG mad about this one

you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

oh he would have loved having a blog

And here I thought "the Like" was invented in Silicon Valley with the blogging sites of the 90s. Typical westerner, unaware that "Likes" had been invented in China two hundred years earlier.

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

I think there are people who are excluded from girlhood who deserve to feel like they can be positive moral agents

No one said that they can't? Like, no, what virtues are there that are gender specific? Just try to be a good person, it's all anyone can do.

The reason to have virtues in the first place is to do good things even when they cause you social problems. You don’t need virtues to tell you to do things that make people like you.

The goal is to raise boys into good men. It's one thing to say "you should be a good person without any expectation of reward". It's another to say "I don't understand why people are hesitant to be good when it's actively socially discouraged for them to behave in those ways." It would help if men weren't considered lesser as men for being emotionally intelligent and considerate of others, actually.

Maybe I don’t get the concept of choosing your role model. To me, role models are something adults choose and then order kids to have. I don’t typically think of “masculinity” as something that’s needed in a role model in order for a boy to choose it, since I don’t imagine a boy choosing in the first place.

I'm sure there are many parents who think of it that way, but unfortunately the kids are definitely picking their own role-models, and ultimately they always will. They might be happy to pick their own parents or maybe a teacher. Sports stars, youtubers maybe. A lot of them will pick Andrew Tate. I think Andrew Tate is a pretty good example of why this is necessary, actually. The patriarchal image of what masculinity looks like can be/has been deconstructed, but that's only half the work. If we, as reasonable and conscientious people, don't reconstruct something for these young men to hold onto, it's going to be up to the grifters and the misogynists to tell them what a man is. And you can say "Why does it matter? Can't those boys be happy with being themselves?" and I might even agree with you. It worked for me. Strategically, though, I don't want to surrender this front to the manosphere. When these young men go asking how they should behave, which they will, I want there to be better options for them. I don't really understand why people get so upset at the idea.

I figured out what this all reminds me of. Religion. Religious folks say their denomination is open-minded and flexible and lets you question. Then you question whether the religion is even true in the first place, and you discover the cage still exists even if the walls are farther away.

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

some of the asks you guys send me make me feel like i'm sitting the all souls exam

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

Oh wow.

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

I wasn't sure about letting this Hydromancer into the party at first, but it turns out her sword arm is unparalleled, and she only dabbled into Hydromancy so she could intentionally contain the enemy's blood after she rained countless slashes upon them like a meteor shower on the clear night sky for the express purpose of striking a pose, muttering "zan", and then releasing all of the blood on their wounds at once in a spectacle that the villager elder described "sick as fuck".

this and a blunt

Apparently this is somewhat untrue. The plan would not have ended world hunger, but it would have saved the lives of 42 million people. And it was David Beasley who started the conversation, not Elon Musk. That said, if I was Elon Musk, with a bottomless pit of insecurity in place of a soul, I would have donated the 6.6B and spent the rest of my life bragging about how I ended world hunger. Literally my response every time someone says something bad about me. Would have spent extra money to make them brand it with my face and name, too. ElonBread, ElonVoucher, ElonPoints. Even from a purely discompassionate perspective, think of the publicity!