i have as much proof as the woman in the article has about her story.

which is none at all. it’s all hearsay. social media is all hearsay. this article is about social media stories.

there is no burden of proof here. anymore than there was for dudes going on about spermjacking women 10 years ago. I remember that viral panic.

Nothing is behind it. It’s another dramatized thing that people are using for social media clout to score points, and people lap it up. This is manufactured rage bait.

We are also only getting one side of the story. I know for a fact a few of my breakups where the other party completely warped the story to make me into a villain. I had one incident where I was teaching my gf to snowboard and she broke her wrist on the bunny slope, a super common injury. I spent all day with her in the hospital etc. We broke up 6 months later and started telling people I had shoved her to the ground and broke her wrist on purpose because I was jealous of her success as a pianist or something and was trying to sabotage her life . It was insane and her story got worse as time went on post-breakup.

90% of these are probably just unhappy people on a bad day who are re-writing the story into some elaborate narrative of evil and abuse because they know it will do well on social media. And a lot of tiktok/social media people are very unhappy people. And unhappy people do a lot of lying and exaggerating for attention. well-adjusted people aren’t making teary faced videos on tiktok about their breakups.

yes, but people are emotional and they don’t abide by their own terms

every casual relationship i ever had was never actually casual. it was just full on monogamy with a ‘get out of jail if someone better comes along’ card built in.

I mean, most countries the rural areas are going to have vastly different gender roles and expectations.

Even more so for indigenous peoples.

People really don’t get that not everyone is a progressive liberal living in a major urban area.

He already backed down. Regime change isn’t the goal. It’s destroy the Iranian military. Which they will accomplish easily.

No.

They are just a bunch of anti-USA types who just think this conflict is evidence of the collapse of America, or something. And they are eager cheering on the supposed downfall, and begging for any narrative or infopoint that makes america look bad.

social media is re-wiring adult brains too. it creates a delusional sense of reality for those who are deeply into it and that distortion filters out to everyone else. i can’t talk to social media users anymore because they live in a pocket universe in their heads and they are terrified to interact with people outside of the bubble.

music, movies, games, are all fictional. they aren’t distorting reality for most people the way social media is.

social media is also algorithmically driven to push your worse fears, anxieties, and other psychological triggers to keep you hooked. video games aren’t like that. nor is music or comic books or other new media.

that would be to ‘harsh’

Good for Japan.

We are not living in a post ww2 pax americana anymore. Nations need to be able to defend themselves from aggressive/expansionist neighbors.

Most people don’t cook lobster and those that do cook it once a year.

No, they don’t know how to kill a lobster. They buy it at the store, it sits in the fridge for half a day or two an they toss in in boiling water.

No, it’s real world experience from working in public policy and government officials.

I also made no such claim that all are bad. It’s the social engineering ones like this that are.

bingo. that’s the fundamental flaw.

sex and sexuality is incredibly complex, subjective, and nuanced. the government can’t even teach kids the basics of math and reading… and thinks it’s somehow going to teaching 11 year olds about sex is going to magically reduce violence… 11 year olds for most of whom sex is a foreign concept and will be until for another 4-6 years of their lives.

it’s political grandstanding really. they are doing this to score points with the public at the expense of school children.

No, the policy/program makes that assumption. Guilty, until proven innocent.

the article says they will be specifically targeted for being ‘misogynists’ but says nothing about what determines that qualification.

And if it’s like any other government education program, it will produce solely negative and crappy results and just be weaponized against students and teachers both, preventing free and educational discussions of these topics and teaching them according to some illiberal and idiotic stereotypical standards the know-nothing government officials have made out of ignorance and blanket determinations of what these things ‘are’.

I’m no in the UK but I’m well aware of how horribly the USA education system deals with these topics, and how all the schools take a HR approach to the topic rather than an educational one. We weren’t even allowed to ask questions about sex or relationships and it was taught from a narrow and ignorant perspective that ignored all the insights of modern science and social science.

no i’m focusing on value judgement crap that assumes boys are all evil unless educated otherwise, and seeks to socially isolate them to ‘re-educate’ them.

this is the type of plan that is likely to backfire, and will probably introduce potential abusers to the tools to become better abusers. The average boy has no knowledge or interest in any of these things. it’s punishing the majority rather than addressing a minority.

also what are the specific criteria that identity a boy as a proto-misogynist? interesting how that isn’t mentioned. nor what ‘healthy relationships’ means. will this program be espousing traditional sexist gender values as ‘healthy’ ones? as if those values were not misogynistic?

Schools should focus on facts. Not political narratives about the evils of pornography necessarily leading to misogyny and sexual assault or that they are all ‘manosphere influenced’ until prove otherwise. that kind of mentality is some witch-hunt bullshit.

Porn is also incredibly diverse its content. Like video games, or comics, it’s treated as if it was this singular mass of crassness and crudeness and could never have any redemptive value. There is a vast difference between sexual assault fetish commercially produced porn and a loving couple who just wants to share tehir passion for sexual pleasure with each other with the world and make a few bucks on onlyfans. And the former is a dying breed.

yep. nothing makes kids resent you more than being condescending to them or telling them something is horrible and bad and will corrupt them.

this puritanism nonsense makes zero sense. sex education should be about the facts of sex. not value judgements about waht is ‘good’ porn or not. and female students should be included. this notion that ‘women don’t watch porn’ is completely nonsense.

i’ve also been called gay a lot. and yet i have no sexual interest in men. weird how other peoples perceptions of you may be totally incorrect.

it’s almost as if other people’s opinions have no bearing on what we really are.

No, because we all know that men not living up to women’s fantasy ideals is their personal failing as men. These boys need to learn that if they aren’t BDSM billionaires they don’t deserve a woman.

And men having fantasy ideals about women, is hateful and bigoted. We can’t have that, and since porn is mostly male sex fantasies it is wrong and bad.

I’ve been called a misogynist a lot. Mostly when I am confronting a woman about her crappy behaviour towards other people or myself. It’s definable a term that is used to avoid accountability, or against anyone who doesn’t agree with benevolent sexism towards women.

yes. it also prevents attacks. it’s basically a necessity these days.

if you host your own stuff and get any traffic you’ll get DDoSed by bots. cloudflare prevents this by detaching your DNS from your IP and distributing requests.

just port forwarding on your home network these days… and you’ll get dozens of attacks per hour.

the internet is not ‘nice’ anymore. services like cloudflare are a necessity for any active services beyond personal use. long gone are the days you could host a web server from your bedroom.