I’m talking to the “not-all!” of men, who will get their balls in a twist about it. They’re the ones who would be pissy little children about it. And it’s more likely to get through and communicate than a literally true statement. It also shuts down their oblivious complaining much faster than a nuanced and completely true statement, which I’m much too old tired and bitter to be defending. Think of it like the information equivalent of a prodrug for dipshits that arent 100% conscious.

I have in fact met sane men. Multiple over the course of my life, and even not-this-flavor-of-shit insane men. I would expect them, and any nb’s identifying with them on this topic to shrug and skip it without taking it too terribly personally. Sane stable grown-ass adults tend to be cool like that; all like five I’ve met.

It sucks, because the trend of people being increasingly difficult to communicate with directly. Actual words for things are all minefields, nuanced understandings trigger critic alarms from either survoval mechanisms or stochastic brainwashing, entire ideologies are built around bad faith and using only the back doors in language. Fuck, last time i needed someone to call an ambulance i had to lie my ass off because I’m pretty confident it was a police inflicted injury and i didn’t want anyone else to show up. I can’t remember the last time being completely literally honest went well for me.

I think the very structures of how we use language and narrative are changing. In ‘mein kamf’ hitler talked about how people should read, to cherry pick details supporting what they already believe while discarding everything else, and i feel like as global fascism accellerates/spreads this becomes a bigger part of all use of language and exchange of data-i don’t even know if i can properly call it communication. I hate it. I hate it so much, and so much of my thinking is about how to break through that fucking literally hitlerian reading of all incoming communication in such a way that it remains communicative, that it can introduce novelty rather than just reinforcing solipsism before people cross that point of no return.

And it makes even just basically respecting other people muuuuuuch more difficult. I resent the fuck out of that too. Not that i was ever a master of that one.

So I’m a little more aggressive about it than i strictly need to be, because there is an element of malevolent fucking-with-them in there. I do genuinely resent the death of truth to a profound fucking degree, but pretending like it didnt happen is not helpful or entertaining in the slightest. I do enjoy taking that loss and alienation out on deliberately-but-unconsciously bad faith assholes and the structures of terrible idea that they are operating as/embodying; it’s cathartic, and since these ones are misogynist about their misogyny i don’t have anything to feel bad about.

Thank’s for asking, and in a thread old enough it’s effectively semi-private.