“Y’all” too

Absolutely heartbreaking. And on the other side, there are IDF soldiers partying because they killed children. On the hills, there are Israeli citizens throwing watch parties of Palestinians’ houses being bombed. If an orthodox Jewish, Israeli journalist expresses basic empathy with Palestinians, other Israelis go surround his house and threaten him for being a decent human being. HOW are zionists victims of ANYTHING??? And to ward off any accusation of anti-semitism: this behavior has NOTHING to do with what Judaism actually says. No religion actually says this type of dehumanization is right. This has NOTHING to do with Judaism, it has everything to do with pure racism and colonialism. Nazism in short which, it seems, some Jewish people in Israel forgot everything about - and that’s the worst part.

In the subreddit people have been talking like him not being married and not having kids is a “symptom” of his alcoholism and like. no? I disagree with that 100%. I can understand how it might be a factor into why he hasn’t been dating anybody in a serious way and why he’s been lonely for a while, but like… being single doesn’t mean being abusive, or “not being mature enough”, especially given how a whole lot of immature people get married, have kids and then do some real dumb shit. Being depressed and with an anxiety disorder, I can understand it looks like arrested development, but I also fully think people with the level of trauma Ben went through (and I’ve had some kinda similar types of trauma) develop in a different way. As in, we don’t “just stop developing”, we just develop in a different direction. His direction seems to have been, unfortunately, abuse and self-isolation (the latter of which I am VERY familiar with). Possibly, self-punishment too, in some ways. Which is why I can’t hate him. I hate abuse, I hate that he hasn’t really addressed anything in a serious way, but he’s only been in rehab for like, less than a month, and for him to realize, as he’s said, that drinking was a coping mechanism (and yes, from the outside it seems obvious, but sometimes figuring these things out can actually be really hard unless someone else points it out, and I know that by experience) actually seems like a VERY positive sign. It means he’s seeing someone competent enough to make him look into his trauma instead of trying to drown it. I really have hope for him to figure himself out and heal in a healthier way. I do hope he does.

I’m not a big buff tall man (the opposite actually) and I obviously also empathize with and believe the victims (since I have ALSO been abused in a similar way and have also been on the receiving end of definitely creepy and sexually charged attentions and assault and I’ve doubted and gaslit myself in a similar way) so I’m in the middle since I literally see both sides, but I do hope he actually gets better and becomes able to face himself and reach a better balance, AND I hope Taylor and the other victims will also be able to heal and not be haunted, and I hope they are receiving help as well. I don’t particularly wish for Ben to come back because Ed works so much better, imo, but… I’ve had a good time with him on the show. I don’t really have a parasocial relationship with any of these people, but I do have to say I’ve felt a sense of being understood by all three of them. Which is why this whole thing feels really difficult to conciliate with, but overall I really really do hope they’re going to all be okay at some point. I wish the best for Ben, Henry, Marcus, Taylor, every other host (former and current) of the network, and I don’t have any ill feelings or particular expectations to know EVERYTHING about the ins and outs of this story. I believe the victims, and I also believe that Henry and Marcus didn’t know about the extent of all this - I do believe Taylor told Henry and Natalie, I also believe she didn’t tell them all the deets because I know the sense of shame and actually if everything she said is true, I really admire how fast she acted and how much she trusted them to not disregard her allegation. Unless some proof comes out ofc, but that’s neither here nor there.

Anyway this was all to say, someone being single doesn’t necessarily mean being immature, it doesn’t mean being an incel, matter of fact I’m single and I wouldn’t have it any other way because frankly I don’t care, never did and I can say pretty confidently that I never will. Just like I don’t care about bungee jumping. It says nothing about my level of maturity or anything of that sort. Just didn’t wanna start shit on Reddit.

As long as you’re being consistent. But sadly, I don’t think that’s possible. I wish people could just use their heads instead of following some dumbshit set of rules written thousands of years ago, but unfortunately it’s not really gonna happen.

Of course. People who want to see it will see it, even if it means piracy. And that’s why piracy is inherently good and it won’t damage the company much so it doesn’t really matter.

There isn’t even any explicit reference to homosexuality in the movie, anyway.

The same reasoning goes for Christianity.

Whatever. I’m sure Mattel is crying on the 1billion dollars the movie made.

Have fun getting no pussy anywhere lmao

Isn’t it also the fact that everything he touches explodes and ends up being an unsafe product? I’d rather buy any other brand before buying Tesla, even regardless of his extremely unlikable personality and dumbass choices.

That’s pretty much what this sounds like to me.

Correct. Honestly, if a dude gets offended by a movie that says “hey dude, learn how to love and value yourself without basing all of your sense of self on your romantic relationship to a woman and you’ll be much happier”, they are NOT a catch at all and they need to shed some shit about their lives.

Of course I’m worked up. I love art, I love doing art, i have multiple friends and family members who work with art, and art is the last genuine thing that’s left in this economy. So yeah, obviously I’m angry at people who don’t get it and celebrate this bullshit just because they are too lazy to pick up a pencil, get good and draw their own shit, or alternatively commission what they wanna see from a real artist. Art was already PERFECT as it was, I have a right to be angry that tech bros are trying to completely ruin it after turning their nose up at art all their lives. They don’t care about why art is good? Ok cool, they can keep doing their graphs and shit and just leave art alone.

I’m not really comfortable with how Mastodon works. Bluesky really seems like a very comfy, cool environment and I really like the feeds function. And I mean, Tumblr was always perfect for me anyway.

And they CLAPPED BACK. Love that.

Ever heard the criticism about some movie villains being “comically evil and unrealistic”? Well, tell those critics you’re sorry. Like even the MCU villains are realistic enough at this point. Matter of fact, Obadiah Stane is the perfect representation of one of these evil motherfuckers. That’s why he’s the scariest villain in the whole franchise.

“Free speech for me, not for thee”. God, I’m THIS close to deleting my account there and just migrating back to Tumblr and bluesky. There are just too many users I love that haven’t moved anywhere else yet.

Me.

Oh yeah, for sure, I’m not saying gnc cis woman face the same amount of oppression as trans women. What I’m saying is, by shoving people into very restrictive, hyper-specific boxes, we end up excluding people who by definition shouldn’t be excluded. Like the cis athlete who was excluded from competing because she naturally produces more testosterone than the others. While being cis, again. Or like, all the cis gnc women who get attacked or murdered because transphobes think they’re trans when they’re not.

My point is, women aren’t all the same. Also, women who are naturally prone to packing muscles can and sometimes do go toe to toe with men in terms of height and strength. But they’re still cis women, and should compete as cis women.

But all of this is pointless anyway: this is a BEAUTY contest, and excluding trans women in this historical period is basically like saying trans women have “unfair advantages in the field of beauty” which I mean, could be, but it’s very much a self-report. There’s also the objection that “trans women do surgeries to look the way they look” which yeah, true, but cis women who participate in Miss Italia also very much do get surgery to look the way they look. Matter of fact, there have been multiple scandals about Miss Italy winners having gone through plastic surgery to win. So I mean, everything goes.

Can you be more specific though?