it is absolutely essential to have friends you can have extremely insane pervert conversations with. this is kind of what makes life worth living

having some of the skin peeling surface injury sauce, as a treat.

if I eradicate my skin entirely then the hair can't exactly grow back there, can it?

beavers have the lifestyle that most children dream of. dig and travel through underwater canals. dam a river and flood the local woodlands. stomp mud into dam to seal. swim to flooded trees and destroy them. live in a secret hideout with a underwater entrance. full ownership over an engineering project

When I was a kid, during recess we discovered a leaky spigot that was creating like a constant mud puddle. Over the next couple of weeks, we started spending the entirety of recess making a dam. Damming what? Honestly nothing. Just building an increasingly giant wall of mud and sticks around that spigot. Other kids would gather around to watch or take part.

Eventually the teachers made us stop, but for a glorious two weeks, we were living that dream.

The children yearn for the earthenworks

men lose their masculinity (the social reward for correctly performed manhood) through advocating for, sympathizing with, or doing labor that is allocated to women.

(and I'm not talking about some innate, spiritual, or psychological masculinity. I mean social masculinity--being regarded by higher ranking men as masculine.)

you genuinely do lose your current standing if you meaningfully and consistently object to the economic, legal, and interpersonal status of women, especially in ways that implicate men around you.

many men believe that if they are willing to do this, occasionally, then they are owed a recuperation of their masculinity through some other means.

if they are sacrificing masculinity through advocating for women politically, then they expect to bolster their masculinity through receiving expressions of gratitude and adoration by women ("feminist men are so hot" "consent is sexy" "pro-choice men get laid more" etc.) or they expect to bolster their masculinity through emasculating other men by asserting the standards of masculinity they adhere to are the "real" masculinity ("real men support women" "sexists are immature boys, I'm a man" "I'm secure in my masculinity and they're insecure" etc.)

to dismantle patriarchy, you need to be able to advocate for women even when it means losing gendered status. other men mostly will not respect you, and many misogynist women will not respect you either. it might not get you laid or praised or validated. in fact, it will probably subject you to increased scrutiny and criticism (because feminized subjects are always subject to such, and if you lose social masculinity, you too will experience this to some degree).

will you still advocate for women even if there is no social benefit and only social cost? do you have principles, or do you just want the fantasy of being a benevolent ruler?

lolcows are such a display of the unbelievable mass cruelty people are capable of when given the chance

Pushing some of the most vulnerable mentally ill people to the very edge until they eventually do something egregious and then these people say “see they were a bad person all along so it’s fine to treat them this way”

Twirling in nature by 星見まむ (hsm_mum)

"getting laid" is very hot and sexy. "getting off"? great news as well. so you would think "getting laid off" would be wonderful news for your penis. but alas

we were not born to text we were put on this earth to smoke blunts and jerk eachother off in massive fields of soft grass on a breezy sunny day

a significant portion of bad AI discourse happens because people are not sufficiently rigorous in disambiguating "AI", the cultural object into which the bourgeoisie have deposited all their hopes and dreams for a world where they no longer depend upon the proletariat, and which mostly serves the practical purpose of driving investment, with Neural Networks/Large Language Models, the technologies that exist in real life with actual use cases and actual limitations--or indeed in realizing that such a disambiguation is necessary