that one friend who is too woke voice: all smartphones being fucking massive w no smaller option is misogyny

i'm still a leftist but in my experience women are viewed as expendable in leftist spaces, spoken over, treated as stupid, on a level that is astounding. you can get away with an enormous level of vitriolic hatred for women if you couch it in the right terms

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

"but they support [dictator] and [violent action]!" okay is it possible that a combination of propaganda, election rigging, and authoritarian crackdowns on dissent could lead a population to look like it supports something most people would find distasteful under more reasonable circumstances

Train yourself to refer to “The World Cup” as “the Men’s World Cup”

so much male art relies on the male perspective of contrast between death and innocence with innocence always mapped female. and fundamentally its about sex at a personal societal and philosophical level the man as an entity and a man as a individual knows what he does to women is wrong but he does it anyway because he believes he is compelled. so you walk into a piece of art or a book or a movie and so on and its all lambs being eaten by lions, a girl walking alongside a massive beast of death, its all so fucking boring. male culture has two stories the bildungsroman (the man leaving the womans world behind to enter the "real world" of male brutality) and whatever the name for this phenomenon is. Corruption narrative. which is about the destruction of the female, erotic or otherwise. its everywhere and its supposed to be deep but its every fucking time the same shit