Mar 25

Chosen

The world’s a lot easier when you have the best partner in the known universe. From demon-killing to galaxy-conquering, she’s definitely the one. I chose wisely.

Mar 24

Obvtrue

About the below, people get really, really angry when you suggest that everyone is more puritanical now. Even though it is obviously true. Probably because it is obviously true.

Mar 24

Prudely

Everyone on Metafilter is a fucking idiot.

Jesus Christ, what a bunch of clowns. I was rolling my eyes so hard I nearly created a black hole. I wonder if they realize how like Church Lady they all sound, and how like children at the same time? Gen Z and younger millennials really do have a mental age much younger than their actual calendar age, I think. Many of them act and think like 10-year-olds even into their early 40s. That sex is “ick” to them is a good as sign as any. As well as a fucking puerile word like “ick” being used by them so often.

Most of them are also intellectually arrogant but utterly clueless as to sociocultural history at the same time. It is a sight to behold.

Mar 24

Aes U C K U

Partially, I work out for aesthetic reasons and if I took Wegovy or Ozempic I’d mostly take that for aesthetic reasons, too. It’s weirdo liberal shit that you all see this as “cheating.”

And here’s what I say to that, as I do to many, many things: FUCK ALL Y’ALL! In the most emphatic terms, fuck each and every one of you fat, weak bastards.

Just makes me work out harder and look even better. Hell yeah.

Mar 24

Resent Present

I think these explanations for the increasing gender divide in political alignment are very incomplete, at least for Western countries. Those interpretations aren’t wrong, exactly, but all miss something really large.

What’s missing is that feminism has become increasingly about demonizing men’s sexuality and mere existence over the last two decades and that has caused many men — including me — to be highly resentful and unsupportive of modern “men are inherently evil” feminism. Most men remember the harsh transition from being seen as a cute kid to being told around 12-14 that you have now devolved into being inherently terrible and dangerous despite being exactly the same person you were just a few months before.

Then to be further told as an adult that this fact will never change, that your sexual desire is immanently abhorrent and harmful, and that you are an irredeemably bad person just because the skin you’re in — well, that goes about like you’d expect. Feminism should not exist to coddle or comfort men, but at the same time I don’t think it should exist to de facto treat men like a group or orcs who want nothing more than to rape and rampage.

How did anyone think that’d actually help?

Mar 24

Flour

Most modern dating advice is 180° wrong because it’s optimized for neoliberalism, HR- and algorithm-friendliness and most certainly not for personal flourishing.

Modern Advice: Date only those exactly like you in every way.

Actual Good Advice: Date people with some overlapping interests but not identical to you — having some divergent interests can really enrich both of your lives, and/or allow you to have some time apart.


Modern Advice: Don’t date anyone you know.

Actual Good Advice: Friends and acquaintances are most likely to have enough similarities to be worth dating, and you can vet someone over time that way. Remember: Tinder wants you to stay lonely and longing.


Modern Advice: Date people only born the same year-ish you are.

Actual Good Advice: Date people of a wide variety of ages (if legal). Such restrictions harm you more than they help you (or anyone).


I could go on. But modern dating advice is purpose-built to please neoliberal HR departments and the algorithm. It’s terrible as it applies to real humans. Ignore it all. Or don’t, if you wish to be unhappy.