Have you ever been in a toxic relationship, what was the last straw?

Last straw was when she attempted to incite me into hitting her by throwing plates at me and screaming, “You’re not a real man! A real man would defend himself! A real man would do something about this!”

She wanted to look like the “good guy” by having me beat her. Dumped her 10 seconds later. Don’t date narcissists, people. But I didn’t know she was one until it was too late. She ended up a broke, obese alcoholic loser and I ended up exactly the opposite.

I win.

When you think about it, it’s weird that people be like, “Shaving your pubic hair is unnatural!” And then they have 25 tattoos, five piercings, a hair cut (on their head), wear clothes, and have or have had braces.

Like, come on. I don’t demand consistency but at least be a bit self-aware. Christ.

Most people simply are not very discerning.

They can look at an AI-generated image of a woman and be like, “She looks so real!” Meanwhile, she has 98 teeth, 2.5 eyes, a face 2x wider than normal, and her head is on backwards. But yes, looks so real! Sure thing.

Ukrainian Sniper Recorded The World’s Longest Kill Shot 9 Seconds To Travel 2.5 Miles To Target.

I’ve reliably hit (non-human) targets at 500 meters that were pretty small — about the size of dinner plate. But 4,000 meters? I cannot even imagine. The drop on that round would be like 8-9 feet at that range.

Something I think that is very telling about the modern belief that all relations, even romantic ones, are about power is that the types who believe this almost always get the power differential reversed. That is, assuming it even exists or is real — which it usually is not, or is inconsequential even if one is present.

For instance, a 25-year-old dating someone 40. Assuming the 25-year-old is a woman, she has vastly more choices in the dating market if she is at all attractive. 80% of men of any age and 10% of women would potentially want to be with her. For an average forty year old man? That’s maybe 2% of women and 0.5% of men. Below average? Then it’s basically 0% in both categories. Quite the potential actual real-world power differential there and it’s not really on the side of the older person!

Of course making relationships about power differentials is fucking full-on crazy evil. I can’t think anything outside of war more harmful to human flourishing. But it has become so pervasive it’s hard to get out of that frame of thought. They won, ruining much and gaining little.

Evil, evil.