I suspect that the media messaging on this makes it worse. If told that approaching women is wrong – men who don’t want to offend women and are socially conscious won’t. Narcissists or someone who doesn’t care will keep doing it and have less competition.

— asdf (@asdf03291423) February 8, 2022

This is exactly the case. Narcissists and sociopaths won’t and don’t give a shit about social mores and pressures at all, so women/feminists by enforcing the “any approaching a woman in public ever is harassment” norm mainly ensure that the only people who ever engage with them in public are abusers and harassers.

It’s not a self-created problem, exactly — there are many creepy men — but feminists have made the problem so much worse than it otherwise would be. Not only that, but they are doing the work of capitalism by forcing everyone into algorithmically-driven apps that commoditize us and also tend to make women more likely to want to compete for those coveted top 10% or so of men mercilessly.

Office Romances Aren’t Always Evil or Abusive. Sometimes They’re Human.

That this even needs to be said, as if it’s some sort of revelation, shows what terrible times we live in. In the 1980s about 40% of people met their spouses through work.

We live in such a horrific timeline.

One of my best friends, a grand-gesture romantic who could find eros in his morning coffee, put it aptly: “They’ll hold back the tides before they end office romances.”

Indeed. The liberals are on a doomed and stupid mission (as usual) that does nothing but hurt people and helps no one.

A top researcher says it’s time to rethink our entire approach to preschool.

Kids that age need unstructured play, not a concentration camp. Why is that not obvious to people?

Bucket lists: are they really such a good idea?

Goddamn I can’t believe I am going to have to defend fucking bucket lists against the anti-fun libs but here we are, my friends. Here we are.

The article is a piffling trifle and barely worth aguing against, really, as it’s as insubstantial as cotton candy. Loserdom-wallowing in action. Or rather, in inaction.

A lot of people I used to like before the pandemic I really kinda hate now.

Turns out many of them are smarmy clowns who think they have all the answers but don’t even have the questions. Fuck all y’all.

The first ten on today’s playlist: