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  1. Comment on Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. in ~life.men

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    Well, I think you may have slightly misunderstood my comment because while I think it’s a buzzword, that doesn’t mean it isn’t also real. From what I know from friends in Western Europe it...

    Well, I think you may have slightly misunderstood my comment because while I think it’s a buzzword, that doesn’t mean it isn’t also real. From what I know from friends in Western Europe it definitely isn’t as pervasive in some of those countries as it is in the US and some other countries (even in regions of Europe). I’m glad you personally haven’t experienced it but that doesn’t make it an intangible, unsolvable problem.

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  2. Comment on Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. in ~life.men

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    Willing to be and seeking to be are two different things. I don’t see how there’s anything wrong with accepting being seen as a role model, but I can agree with you if someone were actively trying...

    Willing to be and seeking to be are two different things. I don’t see how there’s anything wrong with accepting being seen as a role model, but I can agree with you if someone were actively trying to make people believe they were one.

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  3. Comment on Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. in ~life.men

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    I think that’s because “toxic masculinity”, while being a very real thing, is currently an easy buzzword for people to point to as a cause of issues and then let it end there. Men do it to...

    I think that’s because “toxic masculinity”, while being a very real thing, is currently an easy buzzword for people to point to as a cause of issues and then let it end there. Men do it to ourselves too of course, because it’s what a lot of us were brought up in, but also a lot of otherwise very progressive women will say and believe in the most “toxic masculinity” sort of things without batting an eye. As with anyone who doesn’t want to let other groups speak, it’s probably because that would require them to consider their own place in things, like many men have had to do (and rightfully so!).

    I wish I didn’t have to qualify all of this, but I feel it’s important to say I’m not some “men’s rights” activist in the way that some very gross people proclaim themselves to be. But it breaks my heart when my 4-year-old boy does everything he can to hold back tears and pretend he’s not bothered when something is clearly wrong because “big boys don’t need to cry”. That young and it’s already getting through to him, and it’s sad.

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  4. Comment on Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads in ~tech

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    Elon probably doesn’t know either. He cleaned house of most of the people who would’ve known Twitter’s trade secrets.

    Elon probably doesn’t know either. He cleaned house of most of the people who would’ve known Twitter’s trade secrets.

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  5. Comment on Starfield system requirements are out on Steam in ~games

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    Their tone is especially unnecessary about something as trivial as a gaming PC. You make a good point about various other countries not having the same standard, but their argument doesn’t even...

    Their tone is especially unnecessary about something as trivial as a gaming PC. You make a good point about various other countries not having the same standard, but their argument doesn’t even hold up to others in countries with strong currencies. I use an SSD to boot and keep some games and then use HDDs for cheap mass storage and for games that don’t need SSD performance. To that poster, it’s still a “discussion point” because SSDs may be more common but are in no way at the same point as HDDs.

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