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Slowter1134

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  • It's Women's Fault

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  • I mean yeah. To start with, casual homophobic phrase: "{blank} is gay" is a very common, very quick social check on behavior; it's saying to be careful of being too effeminate, or too lame, uncool.

    I think for children, they first use the phrase more to mean "lame", it's edgy for them and therefore interesting because it's as close to cursing as they can get without cursing. I think that by the time they grow old enough to understand that the phrase can be homophobic, it's likely that the phrase "don't be gay" has already been repeated enough that it creates an unconscious tension to still try to "not be gay", even if the phrase isn't used anymore because "that would be gay."

    I think confronting children's fear of appearing "lame" would go a long way in promoting men's willingness to discover how to have deeper bonds with each other, even if it could be awkward at first.

    edit: wording

  • It's Women's Fault

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  • Silly men just need to understand that saying "I'm lonely" and "women belong in the kitchen" are equivalent. So don't you dare ever talk or reach out if you're lonely.

    It's a real shame that male loneliness is so quickly dismissed because it would be a great starting point to begin talking about how traditional male friendships tend to keep each other at a distance, and maybe come up with ways to bridge the gap so existing friendships can become deeper.

    Instead it feels like the conversation just gets to this point where we all collectively shrug and say, "shame" and never really talk about it more than this.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • Full hearted agreement. Pretty privilege is an observable phenomenon and Luigi is a cutie.

    Heck, you could even argue that sharing a name with one of the Mario Bros from Nintendo makes Luigi seem family-friendly, silly, and meme-able.

    Either of which could explain a future where Luigi would be found innocent by jury nullification where an amorphous blob that represents every other possibility would be found guilty.

    However, the only way to be sure is to test the hypothesis. So to all you scientists out there, go forth and collect more data points!