blinken… lied??? oh no

the one unforgivable element of tf2

dr mario luther king

absolutely poses a risk to life and limb

“I’m not against immigrants, I’m against ILLEGAL immigrants.”

“Okay, I would make ALL IMMIGRATION LEGAL. No more illegal immigrants ever again. Problem solved, right?”

Backpedaling should be an Olympic sport.

While we are at it you aren’t a pacifist if you don’t support police abolition. You aren’t opposing violence if you are too cowardly to do it yourself but support the state doing it on your behalf.

It’s worse with claims about how you can’t trust anything out of China. What makes the Chinese less trustworthy? Tell me, honkey.

Calling third party voters “single issue voters” when their main objection to third party voting is that they are extremely unlikely to win. “Likelihood to win” isn’t an issue I care about but that seems to be the biggest issue to them. A singular issue, one might say.

That is the risk. The risk for the worker is that we become homeless. The risk for the business owner is that they become a worker; their worst nightmare.

its one of those uncommon things that is common enough that you might know someone who has experienced it to a pathological or harmful manner but also you are just as likely as to not

i know of someone who destroyed their partnership over limerence and the other person never ever really returned the sentiment but they could not stop obsessing over this person and it got kinda stalkerish and they ended up in counseling it was a mess

one of the most intoxicating feelings there is

No, not at all. I appreciate the understanding. I’m also not commenting at all on whether or not “men have it worse” or whatever other nonsense the person said to you. I have no idea what the actual rates are of sexual harassment is for men or if they are ignored more or less than women on a systemic level. I have absolutely no data on that. I just know what it was like for me and the very few times I’ve heard stories from other men in this regard of assault and harassment the stories are similar.

I do think there is another issue with men is that some of us are socialized to not even recognize harassment and/or assault when it happens to us. I’ve seen men talk about these kinds of experiences online and other men express how that wasn’t assault because “that happened to me.” Like, my brother, you are in denial!

oh, it can develop into something pathological for sure. i think if you find yourself crushing hard on someone that can be super cute and fun but also its good to understand how limerence can develop and can become a problem so like if you understand it then you can be aware and avoid falling into that trap

Look up limerence to understands this better. It can develop into something unhealthy. There are strategies for managing limerence.

Cishet dude here.

When I was sexually assaulted about 20 years ago by my ex I never even told anyone because what was even the point. “Oh, the girl who is out of your league forced herself on you? Yeah right.” That’s basically how I imagined it going down. I can’t tell you if men are believed more or less than women. I just know in my personal experience it felt so pointless to even tell a friend that I didn’t bother.

Oh, and here’s a kicker on that. I told exactly two women about my assault a few years ago. So imagine my surprise when they were talking about that “man vs bear” choice that was popular on social media when they told me and agreed with each other, “you don’t know what it’s like. You’ve never been assaulted or harassed.” The only two women I ever told. Didn’t even remember me telling them about one of the worst things a women ever did to me. That’s how unimportant it is to people. And I don’t even know what was worse about that. The fact that they forgot my assault or the fact that they know I’m such a plain looking dude that I haven’t ever had a woman harass me because I’ve never had a woman who wasn’t my partner ever even compliment me sexually or romantically, much less sexually harass me.

It all hurts and is frustrating. That’s my experience.

also him being surprised they actually have a whole staff of writers that, you know, mostly do all the writing

grunting and sweating on another person what kind of gross shit is this you absolute gremlins

i might be mistaken but isnt it against the law not to stop and check on someone you see broke down or hiking or whatever in death valley? i think its one of the only places in america that has such a law

proletariat can also do it as long as the ruling class feels the same way about the target

patronizing and mansplaining are two shorter ways to describe it