• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 hours ago

    It is precisely because people read too much into this shit and think it’s gonna make “macho men” that it empowers people to take it too far.

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    Does this mean we can engage in ritualized abuse of the editorial staff of the Free Press? How many hundreds need to die from this bullshit before it’s too many? Of course these freaks love traumatizing people, so there’s no point in asking about that.

    I checked a bunch of mirrors and the paywall remained, so they really want to make you pay money for their dogshit paleocon ragebait, which is not a good deal.

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      Was going to say, I will let the Free Press support hazing so long as the victims can repay that tenfold to Bari Weiss and the rest of the higher ups.

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    “But it makes men more macho!”

    Isn’t it funny how the same people who claim to want a better world for men think that men are only valuable unless they’re sexy?

    I am forced to assume the author literally wants to torture men because they think it’s hot.

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      I am forced to assume the author literally wants to torture men because they think it’s hot.

      Conservative pathologizing their fetish into politics? Must be a day ending in y.

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      I was in a fratenity in college, quickly realized that a majority of cis men are just psychopaths.

      It’s one thing to make college kids do pushups and squats, it’s another thing to make them do the vile shit that “brothers” pitched.

      Drinking a liter of soy sauce killed a kid at a school near us, and after this happened the “brothers” thought it’d be a good idea to follow the trend.

      A lot of alcohol hazing that I had to intervene and stop, a lot of things that would cause damage I also prevented.

      We got in trouble with the university while I was there, I thought shit would be done for but they ended up only getting a suspension from holding events for a semester, great punishment! The national chapter got involved, but didn’t do anything other than making sure the pledges wouldn’t press charges and sent us on our way. I wanted to drop at that point but realized these kids had no other protection if I left so I stuck around to make sure nobody died.

      The one rule was that you couldn’t do to the pledges what didn’t happen to you, which was just incorrect, plenty of these kids joined through covid and had a soft process but turned around and did worse things as soon as they had the power to do so.

      I think the chapter is defunct now though, after graduating I would hear through the grapevine that they were in hot water due to grades, parties that ended up with hospitalizations, severe property damage, drugs, etc.