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neku wrote

Reply to Have I ever mentioned that I really love bicycles? by flabberghaster

i asked to learn how to ride a bike when i was like 10 so my dad took me to the park for me to try (idk why we couldnt do it at home). when i fell over he laughed at me, and there were other kids around, so i was like "fuck this i dont want to learn anymore" so i still dont know how to ride a bike.

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neku wrote

Reply to i hung up my laundry yesterday but i had to close the window in the evening because mosquitos started coming in and now my laundry is still wet and i wish i had better venting so i guess this post is a vent vent post by victoria

i've read that if you have a little bit of laundry you can hang it up in your bathroom with the extractor fan on and thatll help. my bathroom is like 3 square metres so that doesn't work for me but maybe you're a high roller. otherwise maybe you could get a screen for your window. or just put your clothes outside. my roommates dont put their clothes out to dry when its sunny and its like... but that's optimal drying time

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neku wrote

Reply to people should be more scared of glass. movie characters with uncompleted arcs should have their absence felt through the film after they jump through a window. so that we can teach people that glass is dangerous. (cw: death discussion) by twovests

idk we live in a world full of things that have a latent danger to them. people drive in cars all day with the passive knowledge that any other driver on the road could kill them with a turn of the steering wheel. i jaywalk knowing that drivers are fucking insane and want to kill pedestrians at the best of times. i was making a different point with this comment but maybe actually the crux is that having cars be the primary vehicle (hoh) through which we move around the world is not a good idea. uhh people leave their babies around dogs even knowing that that dog could eat that fuckin baby. i'm going off track here

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neku wrote

Reply to Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe by oolong

articles like these always sort of stun me. it always comes out that like thousands of employees knew the risks and ramifications of their company's products in like 1950 and nobody said anything to the press or to the government or anything until it was too late. i can't fathom it. imagine knowing without a doubt that your company was essentially poisoning people and the environment and not saying a word because what, you collect a paycheck from them? why were the generations before us so fucking gutless? is it still like this today?

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neku OP wrote

Reply to comment by victoria in i like a vacuumed floor by neku

no it is a hassle. especially if you dont have a battery powered one. this is the first time i vacuumed in like six weeks lol. but i vacuumed immediately after getting home before getting changed out of my Outside Clothes and it helped because i was still in (somewhat) productive mode.

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neku wrote

Reply to Tate-Pilled by Moonside

this article is good insofar as it describes this cultural phenomenon (that in my mind is sort of already in the past, being that andrew tate stopped really being notable once the cops got him for being a fucking rapist)

But in Men, Wynn gently asks her progressive viewers to consider the possibility that men’s-rights activists’ concerns contain a nugget of truth: that the suffering of men is real, especially among those who were never high on any kind of ladder. Much feminist theory accounts for this, but many online feminists don’t. “Maybe the average man is also oppressed by the system the feminists call patriarchy,” Wynn says. She describes a “genuine crisis of male identity” caused by the decades-long shake-up of cultural gender norms. “The traditional protector-provider role of men is being replaced by a more equal and undefined gender dynamic,” she argues, and this loss of purpose has contributed to higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and loneliness in men, which is not ameliorated by well-meaning liberals perpetually calling them “toxic.” “I think a lot of feminists have failed to imagine the ways that being treated as invisible or dangerous can also kind of suck,” she says.

i just want to talk about this bit for a sec. theres this pattern of infantilisation of men in this line of thinking that i cant get over. men have lost this supposedly sacred protector-provider role (where they were free to beat and rape their wives and leave them alone to raise their children when the going got tough, but hey, i guess they felt that they were protectors/providers, and that's what matters) and now theyre just so helplessly adrift in this Just So Darn Complicated Post-Feminist World!! if only those nasty feminists could throw them a bone once in a while and realise just how hard it is to be a man now that women know that the emperors have no clothes. i think in 2024 this "patriarchy affects men too!!" argument is soooo played out and corny. its not surprising that this complex social phenomenon has drawbacks for men. but i dont understand why this problem is laid at the feet of feminists like its their fault or problem to solve.

also: "this loss of purpose has contributed to higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and loneliness in men, which is not ameliorated by well-meaning liberals perpetually calling them “toxic.”" is such little bitch shit i cannot help but roll my eyes. like first of all are liberals really calling men "toxic" en masse? it's (at the time of this article's publication 2023). be real. this is not an actual problem for anyone whos not the softest most sensitive snowflake. but after an entire article talking about how men and boys fell in love with tackiest, dumbest, most predictable mommy issues MRA on the planet, leading to changes in their behaviour that directly affected the women and girls around them negatively, i think it's fucking generous for someone to call masculinity toxic! if masculinity is so fragile and tenuous in this craaazy postmodern world of ours that this cigar-chomping rapist boor andrew tate becomes a symbol of its resurgence and strength then it deserves all the hate it gets. ugh!

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