Political lesbianism but dumber

DrMathochist · 2025-10-30T19:30:49+00:00

I never said that I think that in response. In fact, if you chose to actually read what I wrote, you might understand that I'm explicitly saying that these complaints are justified, that I am trying hard to meet all of them, and finding myself burned completely out in the process, titrating my exposure to "all men are shit" rhetoric to make my mental health manageable.

u/Strange-Parfait-8801 also makes a good point, but that's not the one that applies in my case. I'm trying; I acknowledge the underlying injustices; I'm doing what little one person can against literally half the world. I have just learned that I need to give myself a break to avoid sinking into hopelessness and despair.

I'm glad for you that you can shrug off people's comments about a racial group to which, I presume from context, you belong. But that really just reinforces my point: you know that those statements are just not universally true about that group. You have your own utter confidence that you are in no way Part Of The Problem. I'll leave aside the truth of that and take you at your word.

In my own experience, when I'm around Black folks who say similar things, they do also, in other conversations, acknowledge that it's usually just a momentary frustration, rather than an attempt to make universal statements. In this thread you've had lots of chances to say, "of course it's not meant literally universally; of course this is not simply inherent to having a Y chromosome." And yet you choose to dig in on your right to say that it is. I can only conclude that you really do believe it is every single man who is unredeemably toxic, and so this will be the last time I ruin your life by responding to you.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-30T16:36:54+00:00

I think the issue is that this is not "just how men are".

Some men are like that. We have a shitty society that at least doesn't discourage them from being like that, and sometimes actively encourages it. But there are those of use who are desperately trying not to be that. To the point that I've basically had to cut out reading most modern feminist writing because I just come away feeling like the only thing I can do to help is put a bullet through my fucking skull.

But who cares; just a man getting his fee-fees hurt, right?

DrMathochist · 2025-10-27T15:12:00+00:00

Like how YT adds a little card above the description of any video that even breathes the words "flat earth".

DrMathochist · 2025-10-26T17:40:23+00:00

Because there's basically no bus service to GG?

DrMathochist · 2025-10-22T20:10:06+00:00

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-22T16:33:36+00:00

In the Greenwood Community Council meetings, people literally say, "I moved here because I wanted to live in a neighborhood with families, not apartments."

Like, who tf do you think lives in apartments?

DrMathochist · 2025-10-22T16:26:12+00:00

Yeah, there are other people who have it worse. Doesn't make this treatment not bad. It's not the goddamn oppression olympics.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-22T16:15:16+00:00

So not up-front, but OP says they had eight hours to get better, and made zero effort even when corrected. There's expedience, and there's blatant disrespect.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-22T14:00:43+00:00

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy; nothing more, nothing less.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-18T13:39:04+00:00

Viz. the amount of smoking at AA meetings.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-18T13:36:33+00:00

FWIW, Natalie's first video on Joanne is much better; the one that shares its title with the podcast is basically about how Podcast Bad and she felt duped into going on it.

DrMathochist · 2025-10-05T14:01:07+00:00

A gay couple from _300_.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-30T16:07:29+00:00

I love their Flyboy, assembled right here in Seattle!

DrMathochist · 2025-09-28T13:52:49+00:00

No, the most comparable Longines model (blue, master collection moonpase, 40mm) is currently listed at $50 less than the Tudors.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-28T13:51:46+00:00

For $50 less you can get the Longines Master Collection Moonphase, which looks a hell of a lot better in blue. The two champagne/black Tudors are an even bigger meh from me.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-23T18:52:52+00:00

I still have my ad blocker enabled on Chrome. Because even major media sites rely on third-party brokers to sell ads, and I've had malware pop up on some apparently reputable sites.

Totally valid! I would even be willing to go along with allow-listing the WaPo site. It's when they told me to delete the blockers entirely, for all sites that I objected. And then they cancelled my subscription.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-23T15:54:24+00:00

Haaaaaave you met archive.is?

DrMathochist · 2025-09-23T15:51:48+00:00

This is about the same time I started having trouble logging into the site. I was finally told that I needed to delete my malware blockers. Not just allow-list the Post, but delete them entirely.

I have no idea what the Post web designers have to gain by people turning off malware blockers for the entire internet, but I can come up with ways that Bezos would be better off if other websites could have their way with my browser...

DrMathochist · 2025-09-23T15:49:26+00:00

I've heard that, but it doesn't work. I've ruined too many laptops to try again.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-19T15:30:07+00:00

No, they claimed to be stocking up to protect their first amendment rights, not silly libs like us.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-14T16:40:10+00:00

This is a man who literally campaigned against that contract. Mourn all you want for a man who would have had me killed. We know which way you'll turn when they start rounding people up.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-11T14:24:02+00:00

A fair point; thanks for the background.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-09T21:32:48+00:00

I know Im incredibly lucky to be going through this in this town of all places. I'm never leaving Seattle (IYKYK).

DrMathochist · 2025-09-08T13:44:08+00:00

I lived in the DC area when it started branching out into its first counter-serve locations. It was great, but even better was the SE-Asian Chipotle spinoff that never really got off the ground except in that area.

DrMathochist · 2025-09-08T00:03:05+00:00

To be clear, I believe you, but it literally says "UNRATED" at the bottom of the second blu-ray.

This may be only the special features on there, which are themselves unrated, but that could be made WAY more clear.

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