Weighing in on “Man or Bear.”

Good article. I wanted to highlight, though, something that I think a lot of women don’t realize: men are also in danger around unknown men, though not (usually) in the sexual realm, unless in prison. Dealing with unverified men is extremely perilous for us as well. We just do stuff anyway. Is higher risk tolerance nurture or nature? I don’t know but it’s certain men in our society do have that.

For instance, my paratrooper buddies and I went to a neighborhood in Cairo we were specifically told not to enter because we were told we should not go there. (And the advice was correct! We left at a full sprint with some dudes with knives chasing us. Lord, paratrooper shit. How am I even alive.) Won’t see many women partaking of that kind of insanity, though.

I appreciate she does not paint all men as demons as so many women and as nearly all strains of modern feminism do. That is much appreciated and it really elevates my opinion of her ideas and experiences.

This entire song and video is beautiful and amazing.

Why doesn’t children’s suffering make me sad, but I can’t even think about animals suffering?

Because you’re socially retarded, like many people are now who act and behave the same. It’s a symptom of a diseased society. Don’t get me wrong — I don’t think animals should suffer either. But I do see people say shit all the time like, “I’m fine with humans getting slaughtered left and right in this film, but if a dog gets hurt I can’t watch it!”

And you just know they’d be that way about real life, too. A sick society produces sick people.

Are commercial “third places” a dying breed?

They are. I remember when Starbucks used to have chairs and even comfy couches in the 1990s. Now they are concrete brutalist nightmares that obviously want no one to spend time there. The entire design motif is based on getting you to flee as hastily as possible.

Malls now complain and kick you out if you “loiter,” especially if you are under 18 (though I have been kicked out of a mall for sitting down when I was well over 18 and had a valid movie ticket). I remember when the whole fucking point of malls was to loiter and hang out. What the hell are we even doing here?

And a lot of PMC libs still like to believe corporations love them. It is so absurd to behold. I also was going to go on another rant about how Haidt is right about his thesis and how the above is related, but I’ll save that for another post (also, anyone who thinks Haidt is wrong is an enormous dumbass, but that is obvious).