If I had to sum up the average man’s accurate perception of being part of society, it’s this from an old tweet: “The most core, fundamental male experience is society completely not giving a fuck about you.”

Women complain that society only values them for their beauty or their ability to produce babies or whatever…but at least you’re valued for something. Unless you’re very rich or very, very attractive (top 0.0001% of men or so), as a man society thinks you are worth absolutely nothing.

Try that on for size.

When people talk about they were “just figuring out who I was” in their late 20s and such, that seems crazy to me.

I guess it has to do with where I’m from and how I grew up. There, if you’re like me, you’re forced to figure out who you are far, far earlier than that. That’s why this thing that mostly (some) women claim — the “Oh, I was just a tiny little baby until I was 30, I can’t be held responsible for anything I did” — is not solely an attempt to evade culpability for mistakes in life but might be somewhat true.

Wacky. I can’t understand it but I guess it could be the case. Me, I knew who I was by the time I was 10. Had no choice, really.

The first ten on today’s playlist: