Listening to men talk — just how dismissive of and derisive towards women they are — reminds me of why I don’t really have any male friends.

Women have some idea of course. They receive the harassment. They overhear the cloistered conversations, sometimes.

But I’m betting that women mostly have no idea just how they are talked about when they aren’t present, just how much hatred and venom is directed their way by everyday “average” men. Just how much their every effort is dismissed, their every action and thought minimized, denigrated and trivialized.

I know it’s not all men. But it’s the majority. It’s impossible to say for sure, but I’d say that about 95% of men are irredeemably sexist.

So women, if you hate men: you should.

One of the reasons I wanted to join the army and became a paratrooper is that I wasn’t sure that I could do it.

And conversely one of the reasons I haven’t cared about graduating from fancy schools or getting other credentials is that I knew that I could, easily, though it would waste vast amount of time and resources.

Why do something that wastes my time and is easy? What fun is that?

Sometimes getting credentials is unavoidable. I have loads of tech certifications, for instance.

But I’ve always been attracted to those things that I wasn’t sure I could do. Sometimes I fail. Sometimes I don’t.

But I’m just not built to waste time doing things I already know that I can do.