Trans woman, sci-fi/fantasy writer, student of psychology.
I’m not a dude or a bro. I don’t care how you justify it.
He’s still a huge hypocrite because he’s famous for a story about a human and an alien getting along, and the human putting everything on the line to save said alien. It is literally the “woke nonsense” he’s bitching about. I will give this man and his work no further attention.
You’re probably better off not knowing, but if you’ve ever heard of Pizzagate or QAnon, 4chan is where those delights came from.
It’s 4chan. Of course it’s a manospheric conformist post. If they actually did all that shit to improve their lives they’d also walk the fuck away from 4chan, not go brag about it to them.
With that in mind I would say that sometimes you have to stop the thing you’re doing, let’s say masturbating here, so you can get your body back to baseline before you can even begin to work with a therapist or do some introspection.
I’m not saying we should demonise masturbation, just accept that for some people they may need to stop doing that for a period whilst they then fix the other shit they got going on.
If you think this is what “nofap” is about, you don’t understand the issue. Nofap isn’t a step toward therapy, nor does it avoid demonizing masturbation. It’s manosphere propaganda aimed at lonely, frustrated men to manipulate them through shame and further deprivation. People who have a genuine problem with self control where masturbation is concerned are just catching strays in this war where nofap ideology is a weapon.
no that thing, you should definitely continue doing that. Just seems unproductive to me.
Who brought that idea in? You just made that up.
Of course, ‘never fapping’ and automagically being a good person is an absurd manosphere grift to push. But if they were following a specific diet which in itself also doesn’t turn your life around but gets the ball rolling would you have the same stance?
What we’re really talking about is the equivalent of following fad diets because a fascist with an agenda is trying to bend vulnerable people to a cause they don’t understand, using psychological knowledge and conditioning techniques. These people are not consulting licensed professionals, they’re not talking to psychiatrists or therapists, they’re listening to Joe Rogen podcasts and Facebook propaganda.
So while all these other things you talk about might have some merit to them, that’s not what we’re really talking about, nor what the problem actually is. The problem is these men live in a society that simultaneously tells them their desires are bad, show unrealistic body images and other impossible standards, tells them they need to work on themselves in superficial ways, and all while forcing them to live as wage slaves while the ultra-rich laugh at the impossible frustration they’re putting people through.
Figure it out.
Comparing a natural behavior to dependency on addictive chemicals is a bit silly. I’m not sure you’re taking this seriously. And before you come back with “masturbation releases chemicals we can form a dependency on”, literally SO many other mundane things have the same effect. Conservatives and fascists always care about this one in particular though, and that’s the real reason we’re talking about it.
So you understand that the problem isn’t doing the thing, it’s something else, and doing the thing is only bad because of that context. Then you ought to understand that treating the context is the solution, not insisting the person just not do the thing.
The problem isn’t masturbating.
When it’s 4chan we’re talking about, Poe’s Law applies.
Yeah, the point is get off 4chan and get an education so you stop having apoplectic seizures every time someone mentions emotions or other “woke lib shit”.
Yeah, the rise of the AfD party is no secret, and neither are their conservative, nationalist, anti-immigration (and other Nazi-like) views.
No, the blame is on shitlords who disqualify people like her from life because they sound or look different. The kind of ideology Star Trek has stood against since the beginning. There’s nothing wrong with her. There’s nothing wrong with her character sounding like that.
No, that’s how Holly Hunter talks. That’s how she’s talked her whole life due to a childhood illness. So yes, it does matter.
They’re calling her “captain mumbles”, which is a shot at how the actress speaks.
I feel like calling Captain Ake “mumbles” is right up there with calling Picard “baldy”. I get the feeling we’re dealing with the kind of people who think one of those things is okay and the other isn’t.
This is just unironic incelposting.
I was letting you know how utterly unconvincing your argument is considering what I said. I don’t care to convince you of anything. You can believe whatever you want, and I’m free to think of you as an idiot.
Ta-ta!