So obvious I didn't even think of it: heterosexual dating norms are full of examples of male emotional labour – e.g. expecting men to approach women

(Also full of examples of female emotional labour, just different things)
https://t.co/DT59TBjpVo

— GeniesLoki (@GeniesLoki) August 31, 2020

Yeah, framing frequent and sometimes brutal rejection as “not emotional labor” is completely absurd. Yet, as with violence, men are told just to accept it, deal with it, handle it, and if you don’t you’re not a real man.

And then the feminists say that “no one is OWED love/sex/social contact,” as if 90% of them hadn’t just spent the past six months going obviously and embarrassingly fucking bonkers due to lack of love/sex/social contact because of Covid. The whole idea that no one is owed those things is both trivially true and completely fucking irrelevant and a very harmful and inhuman way of thinking. Because no one is owed anything. Food. Water. A place to live. Trust me, the universe does not give a crap either way. Burn you and everyone you’ve ever loved and known up with a solar flare? Fine. Just another Tuesday.

This is, again, predatory neoliberal hyper-capitalism refracted through feminism, and it’s no prettier there than anywhere else. We owe each other more than telling three-time losers that they deserve their pain and isolation. Or at least, that’s the world we should be trying for but won’t.

How we met: ‘I hitchhiked to Kathmandu and spent days searching for her.’

For today’s liberals, this relationship would be no good for these reasons:

• There’s a two-year age gap.
• Both were in the same field.
• Some (what today would be called) mutual stalking.
• Cultural appropriation.
• Appears to be actual attraction, not just some contract negotation.

Yep, totally evil.

“Look at these people having a safe outlet during such difficult times. Let’s just make sure we scold them for that, and not use the power of visuals to inform people of the actual big risks of crowded, unventilated indoors.” ht @mauprieto pic.twitter.com/BF4K0baF63

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 7, 2020

The media, and its owners, wants people to be cowering inside, terrified. That’s what causes ad clicks and that’s what sells newspapers to old people.

By the way, if you live in an apartment its far more likely that you get Covid-19 sitting alone in your tiny shitbox via its crappy ventilation than you do outside at a beach or a state park. Our media is utter garbage.

The pandemic has brought the personal computer back to life, with help from Zoom.

It was always, always a lie that the PC was dead. But now people are figuring out you can’t get a fucking thing done on a tiny smartphone with a shitty keyboard. Smartphones are for consumption only, and aren’t even good at that.

Surprise, sur-fucking-prise.

If you can only Deadlift 500lbs after 10yrs training and someone else can dead 700lbs, it's not necessarily because;

1 they trained harder
2 they trained better
3 they know more

— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) August 22, 2020

Genetics matter, as much as progressives hate to hear it (but secretly know it’s true), and the more you reach close to your potential, and other people’s potential in comparison, the more they matter.

I simply do not have the genetics to deadlift 700 pounds. No matter how much I train, I will never be able to do that. But I saw a guy on YouTube about my height and only slightly larger than me muscularly who was deadlifting 700 pounds fairly easily. The difference between us? He likely has a genotype that allowed for more coordinated muscle recruitment and stronger connective tissue in the right places.

No matter what the libs claim, genetics matter, and in more areas than they want to admit.