People are really puzzled that no one wants roving foreign rape gangs in their countries? Like, to you that’s a real mystery why people don’t want that?

You’ve got to be playing, right, if you don’t understand why that’d turn people against immigration? Come the fuck on.

I remember all of that! I also had friends messaging me at the start of the pandemic claiming that masks don’t work who later became extremely, ardently pro-masking. And you know what, it’s ok to change your mind given new evidence or in this case re-evaluation of the existing data.

What I object to is when someone treats me like the bad guy for being able to recall quite recent history, even if it paints people in a negative light. That I strongly refuse to play along with.

I won’t call them out by name, but I also had a friend (who is still a friend) insist that no one had ever said “hug a Chinese person” and that it did not happen that for two months the liberals claimed that believing Covid was a threat was racist. But all that stuff occurred. I remember; I was there. A lot of it is now “conspiracy-theorized” and memory-holed and more will be in the future as the truth is sanded down to what feels good.

One of the reasons for the current gender war is the messages men and women receive as they grow up have diverged a lot since the 1990s.

During the ’90s, both genders were told roughly this: Strive for equality while doing the best you can. Everyone deserves a fair shot. Be as egalitarian as possible and ethical while trying to do what you love. Most people are trying their best and while there are some differences between the sexes, we all have to work together.

Now women receive this messaging: You are special faultless snowflake sparkle princess who deserves the best always. Accountability and responsibility should never touch you; you are a child until you are 40. If that top 0.01% man you so richly deserve doesn’t find you, no one else should darken your door; it’s best to just stay single.

And men are told at the same time: You are by default evil and disposable. Also, a rapist by dint of being born male. This condition is inescapable and women are right to hate you (unless you are one of those top 0.01% men, where your proper role is to be a walking wallet). If you object to any of these obviously-correct assumptions about you, that means you are even worse: an “incel” who should be shamed and shunned by all.

It’s no damn mystery why the two sexes hate one another now as feminism turned pure evil. Nothing else really could’ve occurred.

Men – what’s your honest to god feelings and reaction when women discuss “mental load” in relation to household and child raising chores.

“Mental load” is 90% neurotic bullshit and 10% real.

That said, yes to the comment I screenshotted. In a past relationship I took care of all car maintenance, yard maintenance, most household stuff (even though I am terrible at it), etc. But I was told none of that counted as a contribution because I “enjoyed doing that stuff” and “all men find that fun” even after I was very clear and very vociferous as to the fact that I did not in fact find any of that enjoyable, but was just doing it out of necessity.

It was merely a way for her to still have me do 50% of the other housework, too. In reality, I did something like 80% of the actual household work, while she thought she was doing most of it — because to her my contributions didn’t count because they were “fun.” This is incredibly common with women, from what I hear and have experienced (luckily not at all with my current partner). And after the woman I am talking about found out I didn’t mind washing dishes, those also didn’t count toward my contribution because I found them “fun” (in her mind).

So this is how you get to bogus numbers about men not doing their fair share. The vast majority are. Our labor is just not counted.