What’s the worst thing about being a man?

I haven’t read any of the responses, but the worst part of being a man is that you are treated like a predator and dangerous by everyone. It’s impossible to have a normal interaction with anyone — particularly women — because you are seen as a default threat, and not worthy of respect or consideration because of that. Your every action is suspect, and your motivation for doing anything is questioned.

Women think they get too much attention? Try being given so much negative attention all the time. Society treats men as completely disposable and as a huge threat by default, no matter what you do or how you try to get around it.

Modern libs be like: I’m sex positive! Positive it’s terrifying and a power imbalance is definitely involved and always a dealbreaker and should be illegal!

RT 🔒:

when you think about it all het sex should be illegal due to the attractiveness gap between men and women. men can't meaningfully consent to sex in the presence of a hot naked girl because of this power differential

— moonboi (@moonboi_) June 19, 2022

Yes I know this is satire, but it gets at an important point: there are multiple types of power — not just the frankly absurd PMC lib notion of “power” — and being sexually desirable is indeed a huge one. One of the issues is that the only type of power the PMC libs can imagine is related to “will this further my career” and/or “what will HR think,” so anything else is utterly foreign to their apperception of life and how it works.

Deadlifted this morning, awww yeah (my favorite).

Even though Emma Dumont is not in this scene, this was my favorite dance sequence from Bunheads:

I like their all-black outfits with only their faces showing combined with the backlighting. And the dancer Julia Goldani Telles, who plays Sasha (the dark-haired one), is just grace personified.

the notion that woman’s default sexual orientation is “none” surprisingly persistent despite various contrary evidence

— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) June 10, 2022

A lot of people are taught — I was — that women don’t actually like sex at all, that they merely put up with it, and that if you attempt to have sex with a woman it is automatically harmful and degrading to her.

Many liberals have embraced this philosophy fully, but have also removed it out of the religious context in which it is typically embedded. That somehow makes it even worse because then it becomes an even deeper core belief.

On the other hand, this is also true:

to be fair, if you are an unattractive heterosexual male (like about 40% of the population), the message you get is that being sexually attracted to anyone is deeply shameful and predatory.

— thanatoid (@aitch_bar) June 10, 2022