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The fundamental issue is that men have a profound anxiety about female sexuality because we realize that this is an area where women unambiguously have power over us. So coercion is a method by which men reassert control and deny women power. It's pathological insecurity.
The perennial "is X about power or sex?" debate is a little misleading because it's fundamentally about *sexual power*. The two are inextricably bound together, not just in effect, but at the root.
Men fundamentally resent women's sexual power and try to violently retake control
This is, ultimately, the root cause of misogynistic resentment. Masculinity is built on an ideal of independence contradicted by the fact that we depend on women for what we want most (sex). We pathologically resent women's sexual power and concoct various ways to negate it.
it was the most boring nothingburger ive ever heard
President Trump's prime-time address was filled with various repeat lies that have been debunked over and over for months. A partial fact check:
- Inflation isn’t “stopped." As of September, the last month for which we have consumer price data, the year-over-year inflation rate had increased for five consecutive months; it was 3.0%, the same as it was the month Trump came back to office this year. (Even if tomorrow’s CPI report shows a sub-3.0% inflation rate for November, that clearly doesn’t mean inflation has halted entirely.)
- Trump hasn’t “settled eight wars” this year. His list includes an Egypt-Ethiopia diplomatic dispute that wasn’t a war, a mystery Serbia-Kosovo situation that also wasn’t a war, the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has never actually ended despite a Trump-brokered peace deal that didn’t involve the main militia group doing the fighting, and the Thailand-Cambodia armed conflict in which fighting resumed this month. Among other issues.
- Prescription drug prices aren’t falling “as much as 400, 500, and even 600%.” Those figures are mathematically impossible, since a reduction of more than 100% would mean Americans would *get paid* to buy medications.
- The price of eggs has indeed plummeted since March (though I've asked the White House where the "82%" claim comes from), but it's not remotely true that “everything else is falling rapidly.” Far more grocery products have increased in price than decreased in price this year. On average, grocery prices were up 1.4% between January and September.
- Crime wasn’t anywhere close to record highs under Biden, even during the 2021 murder spike that started in 2020 under Trump; crime in the US was far higher in the early 1990s and various points of the 1970s and 1980s than it has been under any president this century.
- There was no prohibition on the phrase “law enforcement” under Biden, as evidenced by the Biden administration repeatedly using the phrase “law enforcement.”
- Trump hasn’t secured “$18 trillion” in investment in the US this year. The White House’s own website says the figure is $9.6 trillion, and a detailed review shows even that is a wild exaggeration that counts a lot of vague semi-pledges and non-pledges and does other bad math.
- Trump didn’t inherit the worst inflation of all time; he inherited 3.0% inflation (or 2.9% in Biden’s last full month in office). Inflation did hit a 40-year high (not a 48-year high or all-time high) in June 2022, but that was more than two years before Trump returned, and it then fell sharply before Trump’s inauguration. Cumulative inflation under Biden was also far from the Carter-era record.
- Nowhere near “25 million” migrants entered the US under Biden, and Trump has never once substantiated his claim that “many” of these people came from prisons and mental health facilities. Experts on global prison policy have expressed bafflement at his claims that numerous foreign leaders emptied prisons to somehow send criminals to the US as migrants, and experts on Venezuela and “the Congo,” two countries he has repeatedly cited, say they’ve seen no evidence that has happened there in particular.
- Trump’s big domestic policy bill didn’t achieve his “no tax on Social Security” promise. It did create an additional, temporary tax deduction for people age 65 and older, but millions of Social Security recipients in that group, not to mention recipients under 65, will continue to pay taxes on their benefits.
- Trump said some states have just hit $1.99 gas. Not a lie, but needs some serious context: GasBuddy tells me it estimates there are about 75 to 100 gas stations around the country, out of *150,000 stations* it tracks, that were today offering gas for $1.99 per gallon or less (aside from special discounts). Similarly, the president said “much of the country” is now under $2.50, but only four states had an AAA average below that threshold today; the national average today is about $2.91.
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19. I'm 29. Hearing aging well?
What age does sound good silent for you?
Me: 52
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The real answer, for men, is physical unattractiveness.
Literally nothing else matters. Men will accept the worst personality flaws if a woman is sufficiently hot.
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no man is actually mad that women dress like this. Men are mad that women *they can't have* dress like this. It's all resentment and projection of sexual insecurity
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