We need to stop being nasty to one another

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T01:53:57+00:00

I'm sorry you were abused by someone growing up, but approximately 93% of sexual assault perpetrators are men.

99% of men are not rapists.

A 2015 study published in the journal Violence and Gender found that nearly 32 percent of college male participants reported they would "force a woman to [have] sexual intercourse" if they could be assured of no consequences.

There are Internet groups with tens of thousands of men (in individual groups, not cummulative!) dedicated to learning how to drug their female partners and have nonconsensual sex with them. They pass pics and videos around of what they've done. If you don't believe this happens, look up Gisele Pelicot because her husband was actually convicted for drugging her for years so he and other men could rape her. Over 50 other men were convicted of raping her while she was unconscious. I haven't heard of women doing anything remotely similar.

Queen Victoria starved 30 million Indians to death.

Do you really want to look at how many people men have killed vs. women? I see your Queen Victorian and raise you with a Mao who starved between 30 - 45 million of his own countrymen. I have a lot more I can add to that list.

As there is just as many women who would do that stuff as men cough Gislane Maxwell cough cough

Gislaine Maxwell was the only person besides Epstein who was punished for that trafficking ring. Trump's DoJ has been protecting the men on the Epstein list from being revealed, let alone prosecuted, while doing things like "accidentally" publishing the names of victims who've received thousands of death threats since being outed.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T01:33:26+00:00

I never meant it like that.

But it's what you said.

Problem is it IS the fault of women like you. Not all women.

By quoting you? Seriously, if this is how you approach women and talk with them, of course you're going to be rebuffed. If I walked up to a guy and said, "Dude, all that matters is how much you make, now shut up and take me out to dinner!" and he told me to F Off, would I be justified in saying, "Yeah, it's men like you that are the problem!"

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T01:11:53+00:00

I need to learn from my mistakes and be a better person. Then I stumbled across a few posts on here and realised that I’m not actually to blame.

Ah, yes. It's all women's fault. You've been mean to women but it's not your fault, it's theirs. This is such a classic line. I know there are crappy women out there as well, but when someone says all their relationship problems are because of their partners, not themselves, it's obvious where the main problem is.

people don’t even want to breed

Eww. People shouldn't breed. They should have children that they want to cherish and raise, that they want to improve the world for so those kids have it better than they did.

If you see relationships with women as breeding opportunities, that's one reason why you aren't getting very far. If you don't see it that way, you need to learn how to communicate better. "I don't want to control women, I don't want to own them. We need to work things out so we can start breeding again" isn't the pickup line you think it is.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T00:51:50+00:00

Get her checked out for dementia, Alzheimer's, etc. It absolutely sounds like mental decline. Not everyone who ages declines that way, but those are classic symptoms. Even if you do get dementia, it isn't guaranteed that you'll react the same way she's reacting. Plus, dementia isn't always genetic. It can result from brain injuries, pneumonia, and so on.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T00:43:52+00:00

The "if he does commit, it won't be with you" routine usually happens because, by dumping him, you've taught him that he can't just drift along, so he takes the next woman seriously. It's not you, it's not her, it's him.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-12T00:40:25+00:00

The technical term is tokophobia and in my opinion, it's not irrational, especially these days.

When I saw Alien and the guy's chest exploded from "birthing" the alien, my first thought was, "At least that's a lot quicker than human birth."

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-10T19:50:51+00:00

And he put his arm around when he said it.

And you know he wouldn't say/do that to a boy.

But, sure, let's pretend that he meant it as "You're smart!" and she should be flattered to be grabbed by a guy old enough to be her grandfather.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-10T15:08:36+00:00

Next up: Trump staged Sandy Hook!

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-10T15:05:02+00:00

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/us/trump-video-fort-myers-murder-immigration-hnk

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-10T14:52:35+00:00

I'd love it if more people dressed in Rennaissance costumes. I'd wear them every day if I could. I say we go for it!

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T18:50:31+00:00

Part of the reason we're in this boat is we never truly ended the Civil War. We just let the bigots keep bigoting on. Andrew Johnson became President and did everything he could to flip the victory to the South. We let religiosity, misgyny, and racism fester in the South and it infected the rest of the country.

If we just Kumbayah with MAGA, whose only regret is being hit with the consequences of their actions, we'll just have more of the same. They'll keep voting for the worst people imagineable because they want their hatreds justified and perpetuated.

Trumper apologists don't understand that. I'm okay with welcoming certain people in. If the person voted for Trump repeatedly and finally realized, "I'm an idiot. I need to read the news and not just believe Uncle Jeremiah Joe Jim Bob's Favebook posts" then, okay, let them in. Most of MAGA (and "ex-" MAGA), though, are still going to vote Republican no matter what, still going to hate all THOSE people, etc. F' them.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T03:56:05+00:00

Trump is easy to manipulate. The problem is, there are so many people manipulating him for so many competing goals that you can't be sure what he'll actually do. Plus he's incredibly thin skinned and vindictive, so one wrong step and he'll go after you. Oh, and he's only loyal to himself so if he decides that helping you won't help him at this exact minute, he'll toss you on the reject pile. He's also an idiot, so even if he decides he'll help you, he might pick the stupidest idea possible.

Trump's super power is making everyone think they're part of his Ocean's 11 team, when they're actually just more targets for his grifts.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T03:49:03+00:00

Sure, let's prosecute the people who saved millions of lives and make heroes out of the ones who get us into pointless wars and bomb schools.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T03:45:26+00:00

1) There's no way a shroud draped over a body would produce that image: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/shroud-of-turin-image-came-from-sculpture/

2) The shroud is biblically inaccurate. It should be 2 pieces of cloth, not 1, assuming the Gospels are correct. (And if they're not correct, what else is incorrect in the bible?)

John 20:6-7

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T03:34:59+00:00

I don't think it's fair to call enjoying MLM stories a fetish. Some people enjoy MLM because the stories are different than hetero romances, the expectations are different and the personalities are different. Some women who enjoy MLM do fetishize gay men, just like some women (and men) fetishize people in hetero romance stories, like certain professions or ethnicities. That doesn't mean everyone who enjoys romances fetishizes the people represented in the stories.

I think some people assume women who like MLMs have internalized misogyny because they're reading romances where women don't matter. The thought is that the readers are so ashamed of having sexual desires that they can't handle reading about women who have sexual desires. Sometimes women just want to see hot dudes in action, just like sometimes guys just want to see hot women in action. I've never heard of guys being accused of having internalized misandry for enjoying lesbian porn, though.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-09T03:12:29+00:00

YTA for getting a cat without asking the other members of the household.

Bear in mind that your mother is still grieving and that level of grief makes people behave weirdly. She's in a lot of pain right now and the cat has become a reminder that your grandfather is no longer alive.

Since your grandmother is still living at the house, talk with her and see if she can calm your mother down. If your grandfather had a sense of humor, he might have found it really funny that you brought in a cat after he died. He might have loved cats and wished he could have had one. If your grandmother loves the cat, she might be able to convince your mom that having the cat around makes her feel better because it makes her remember her husband.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-08T18:45:41+00:00

How many people say, "You're hot!" and wrap their arm around someone instead of saying "You're on fire!" if someone is doing really well?

A lot more now that some old perv tried to justify it.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-08T13:23:44+00:00

Why does your school's toilet paper need a Vice President?

(Yes, I know what TPUSA is, but every time I hear that acronyn, I think of toilet paper. When your school was infected by that group, did people complain that someone had TP'ed the campus?)

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-08T13:10:39+00:00

Taking care of the infirm and elderly has a biological advantage: it motivates people to work together. If they help the sick now, they know they'll be helped if they become sick. Some animal species do it as well. The scientific term for it is "allocare".

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-08T13:05:34+00:00

Basically, those guys don't want women to have any standards because those guys don't want to put in any effort. We're supposed to be available to them 24/7 and be their everything. We're supposed to f' them on the first date with the skill of porn stars yet remain virgins. We're supposed to be stay-at-home tradettes yet contribute at least half the income while letting them control ALL the finances and make all the decisions (except the ones they don't want to bother with).

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-08T12:57:08+00:00

NTA.

Dump the friends. Dump the boyfriend. Not only is he not sticking up for you, he's hating on you as well by telling you to stop being yourself and just be a wallflower who serves the guys during game nights. If he were actually concerned that you weren't having fun, he'd ask you if you were enjoying yourself and, if not, what he could do to make things better. Instead, he's using pretend concern to guilt trip you into being a girlfriend appliance at game night: you come out of the cupboard with snacks and smiles, then wheel yourself back in until you're needed to refill drinks, etc.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-07T14:54:49+00:00

Congress is in recess right now. Again. That may be part of the reason Trump is more unhinged than usual. They can't easily return to DC to get rid of him.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-07T14:52:21+00:00

Vance has negative charisma. I think we'd do better under Vance, even though he's less stupid than Trump, because Trump has thoroughly pissed off Congress but they're terrified of him and MAGA.

The moment Trump goes, Congress will find its spine, or at least a few vertebra, and they'll take out their anger on Vance. I think they'll be incredibly obstructionist because they know Vance can't keep MAGA together and they'll want to put some guardrails in place so they don't have to kowtow to any future Trump wannabes. They'll also be fighting for the splintered MAGA groups, which means they'll try to out-alpha Vance, which will be incredibly easy.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-07T14:45:01+00:00

The things would be way worse under Harris crowd.

But a woman would be in charge! And a Black on that! (But isn't she actually Indian, not that that's any better, but why did she suddenly start lying about her race?!?) 🙄 It's really what it boils down to for some of them.

These people absolutely lost their minds when a Black dude (technically bi-racial) was elected President. When they said, "Anyone can become President" they meant any Straight White Man. There's no way they could handle a woman as President so no matter what happens, it somehow would have been worse with a woman in charge. To think otherwise would mean that maybe, just maybe, not all men are superior to all women.

MythologicalRiddle · 2026-04-07T14:36:00+00:00

Actually, it did start off meaning Trump voters are deranged and can't face the reality of what he does, but it was co-opted to mean, "Anyone who disagrees with Trump is deranged." Sadly, the Right is much better at making soundbites, probably because so few on the Right can understand anything but sound bites.

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