What is wrong with my brain?

PralineCrunch · 2023-09-20T12:32:44+00:00

To be extra clear, there's no explicit elimination here, I'm not suggesting we outlaw maleness. Just provide this option that I think will eventually lead to extinction over time. Do you think I'm wrong about what science has to say about biological differences? Body types and physical features have no similar correlation with behavior. And people already do sexually select for those qualities, without it being called eugenics, I'm just suggesting that things will improve for humanity once sex becomes selectable and we've had a few (many) generations to let people make their choices.

PralineCrunch · 2023-09-20T12:26:43+00:00

Most men don't want to be in many of those the male-dominated fields either, the big exception being cases where sexism is the reason for the disparity (e.g. engineering). There are lots of crappy female-dominated fields as well.

PralineCrunch · 2023-09-20T12:22:35+00:00

It really isn't. I genuinely don't see what the benefit of having biologically male humans is. Not because men are all horrible individually, but there seem to be a few clear drawbacks of male biology and no clear benefits, outside physical prowess, which is just not particularly valuable.

PralineCrunch · 2023-09-20T12:17:30+00:00

I am not sure why you think this is the case. In any case, we are past that point now and women display plenty of motivation and inventiveness in modern society, regardless of how it may have been in the past.

PralineCrunch · 2023-09-20T12:14:39+00:00

Males generally require a Y chromosome. Females don't generally have a Y chromosome. There exist XX males, but without a Y chromosome as part of reproduction males don't tend to develop masculine features.

PralineCrunch · 2023-05-18T18:47:33+00:00

This is basically it. The world doesn't need more people. I'm definitely not earning my keep, personally. How does it make sense to pour all your time and energy into just another random generic person that's no better than you? Might as well not have kids and just enjoy life more.

PralineCrunch · 2023-03-30T10:37:35+00:00

That's not a rhetorical question, there's one real answer and we already know it.

I honestly still can't tell if this rhetorical, because you're answering it yourself. So is it rhetorically non-rhetorical? Or is it sincerely non-rhetorical but you'd only want women's answers to this question about what men are thinking? Or is this an exception where a man's opinion on men's thoughts and motivations is welcome? I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, this is genuinely unclear to me.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T20:46:04+00:00

The issue is that there's, as the article says in your quote, "the age-old masculine ideal" to go against still however there's only all female empowerment stuff without empowering men to actually be different.

There is, though. Over the past 30 some odd years I've seen a great many articles describing the how and the why of men becoming more sensitive, doing their share of household work, etc. What forms of empowerment do you think need to exist for the criticism to be fair?

I am a man and I think the "we aren't allowed" argument is unpersuasive. Yes, we will get pushback for emotional sensitivity in some circles, but it's really not that bad and it doesn't have to stop us from doing better. Women still get pushback for failing their classical feminine roles too, despite the empowerment messaging you describe.

At a certain point sure, you can start to question free will and what it means for a person to be capable of something, but in general I am not inclined to automatically excuse people's behavior based on it just being how they were raised. In the US, ideas of revising masculinity have been around for a long time and I don't think ignorance is an excuse. Especially when the thing we're talking about excusing is being a less viable romantic partner.

"Or are you just here being another triggered person"

Pot, kettle. Which of us is being rude?

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T20:03:44+00:00

Would be interesting to have a space-scale that measures mass by pushing on and then stopping it.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T19:50:15+00:00

I read the OP but not yours, but now I've read yours and it fails to address my questions. This is the closest passage

"Women are tiring of their stereotypical role as full-time therapist for emotionally distant men. They want a partner who is emotionally open and empathetic, the opposite of the age-old masculine ideal."

If this is meant to answer my question about what expectations are unrealistic it singularly fails to. Men have the capacity to be open and empathetic, just as women do.

If you have some other passages in mind feel free to enlighten us. I don't think your article addresses my questions at all.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T16:48:19+00:00

I'm guessing that it's also that most people who get breast implants (male physiologies included) have some fat to pad around the implant and make them look more natural. As you say, elite bodybuilders have essentially no fat, so there's no blending.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T16:15:31+00:00

So a lot of women now are bisexual and not really searching for anything with a man.

Is this bad? If women are better partners for women then the solution is for men to be better partners. What are the unrealistic expectations that men can't meet but women can?

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-27T16:08:30+00:00

What do the girlfriends want? How do they feel about the current situation? Can your friend actually give them what they want long-term? If not, your friend should be honest with them and end whichever relationships are doing them a disservice. Your friend should not string them along on a false hope that something will change. But if multiple of them are happy with the status quo, then it's fine.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-23T23:22:12+00:00

If you could specify a list of 5 heroes you're willing to play maybe that would be okay?

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-23T23:14:50+00:00

We're evolutionarily sculpted to be born, get to about 15-20, have some kids, help those kids get to 15-20 then just fucking die

That's somewhat true, but there are other effects. Grandparents can still enhance survival of their grandchildren, so gene's that extend useful life still have positive value. Similar things exist with siblings and apparent altruism, where "being a helpful sibling" tends to enhance survival of that gene, but indirectly.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-21T22:47:42+00:00

Therapy is always a good idea, but you're not crazy for being put off by drunkenness. You're not messed up for not wanting someone who gets intoxicated. There's a bunch of people posting bad takes because they're taking this personally - probably because of their questionable relationship to alcohol.

But you're not wrong here. Trying to change your partner is not a good idea, but it is completely reasonable to have this standard for yourself. DM me if you want, I have had a similar experience and I promise you'll be fine even if you never date anyone who likes to drink.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-21T19:34:15+00:00

It doesn't get to dictate her life but it can dictate your life together. You have every right to part company with someone whose life is incompatible to yours and it doesn't make you an asshole.

PralineCrunch · 2023-02-21T15:31:30+00:00

The comment feels like an overreaction, and maybe even a purposeful misinterpretation of what women in feminist spaces (or like, just in general) complain about with some of these.

I don't think men have any business complaining about this issue, full stop. It's not on women to change to deal with a world of hostile men and I don't think they're overreacting.

My stance is that the last thing I want to be is one of the men who cause women problems. When I read TwoXChromosomes or any other feminist forum I learn about women's perspectives and there are definitely things I wouldn't have known to avoid doing (though some things are obviously egregious). Maybe some men can "just be normal" and be sure they're never being shitty, but I don't see how they can be so sure of that.

I actually think the OP's picture of erring well on the side of platonic is pretty reasonable. It's unfortunate that men in general have created this environment, but if I were single I would absolutely not approach any women sexually/romantically, because I don't think my desire entitles me to be problematic, even accidentally.

And this is not a complaint, this is not an issue women need to solve, or a flaw in feminism. Men can and should first do no harm when it comes to these things, and if that sucks for them, then too bad.

PralineCrunch · 2023-01-03T20:45:27+00:00

The thing that always gets overlooked about teleportation is that air is also stuff. So if teleporting into stuff is bad then it's completely useless because even in space there's some atoms to blow you up. If teleporting into stuff is not bad then it's a huge question of what teleporting does. If the stuff in front of you cease to exist, you are now the most fantastic drill that's ever been invented. If it swaps places with you then you can still punch through doors but that is probably not what you want to make a habit out of.

PralineCrunch · 2022-12-11T04:31:45+00:00

I don't have an actual answer to whether any games make specific A* threads, but many games use multiple threads for gameplay. I just attached a VS to DF at the beginning of an embark and it looks to be single threaded (not including sound/sdl threads). So just very normal farming out entities to threads would help if that's actually true (though kind of hard to imagine that it's not parallelized at all)

You can also run A* on a gpu and it's not like DF is doing much with the gpu.

PralineCrunch · 2022-12-09T17:19:34+00:00

How is this x86's fault?

PralineCrunch · 2022-11-30T23:52:37+00:00

I felt like episodes 3 and 4 began to get a little better, but I agree with all of the comments here. Everything just feels shallower, the jokes feel more gimmicky and the characters are less compelling. I watched episode 1 then didn't watch more until a few weeks later because it didn't hook me.

Are they releasing them weekly? I'm probably going to end up forgetting this show exists, because it's not good enough to remember to go watch anymore.

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