Smoking has known epigenetic effects

False accusations are inexcusable and can ruin men’s lives and hurt the integrity of real reports by other women. I’m sorry if this is something you went through.

However, two things can be true at the same time. False accusations are bad, and the rates of unreported sexual assault far eclipse that of false accusations.

Male privilege does not mean that all aspects of men’s lives are easier, only that you have better statistical odds compared to a woman in identical circumstances as you.

Acknowledging male privilege isn’t an act of denying the existence of men’s issues. It’s about acknowledging women’s issues that were not visible to men until it was pointed out.

It’s my female privilege. I get the pleasure of hearing this guy talk more lmao.

Privilege is not a binary concept. You can be privileged in one regard and under-privileged in another, also known as intersectionality.

You can be a straight white male and still be under-privileged as a person born to poor socioeconomic conditions, work in an underpaid job, have a disability, couldn’t afford higher education, be secular, and so on.

Being privileged in one regard doesn’t erase your under-privileged circumstances in another. Women are simply asking for men to acknowledge that there are circumstances made more difficult in life by virtue of being a woman.

A great example is how women typical receive poorer outcomes in modern medicine because of how their symptoms are downplayed and dismissed, but are acknowledged when they happen to men. Your statistical probability of getting better healthcare for being a man, doesn’t negate your statistical probability of getting worse healthcare due to other forms of systemic discrimination like those against poorer patients or chronically ill patients.

It’s a kind sentiment, but one that hurts little for us chronically ill folks.

Why does the universe need to be known?

What makes ‘us’ so special that the worth of a whole universe is determined by our existence, inspite of the brevity of human history? Written history has only been around for 5,000. The oldest homo sapiens has only been around for 300,000 years. Was the universe insignificant for the rest of its 13,799,700,000 years?

Not having consciousness might be the best thing that could happen to a universe. Just everything existing, without desire or suffering.

With a universe that peaceful, there might as well not be us.

The idea that eating IUDs causes pain is a myth and any frog who says otherwise is just being hysterical.

Wisdom teeth were amazing to have back when dental care didn’t exist and our teeth fell out from decay or injuries.

This entire post is precisely the problem. The fact that everyone here is conflating sex with mental health support is the reason why men’s mental health isn’t being taken seriously.

Men are not socialized to, and even actively discouraged from being emotionally vulnerable with each other.

We won’t need men doing more fucking, we need men to sit down together and talk about their depression, and we need other men to be supportive and not downplay these conversations with sexist or homophobic slurs.

Make sure to keep your left eye looking at the ‘x’ the whole time. The ‘.’ should only be in your peripheral vision.

Quick way to find your blindspot:

1. Close your right eye

2. Hold your phone/monitor 1ft (30cm) away from your face

3. Look at the ‘x’ below with your left eye

4. Slowly bring your phone towards you (or your face towards the monitor) until the ‘.’ disappears

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There wasn’t. I never said every woman always has support. I only said that men struggle with vocalizing mental health needs among their friends.

If talking to your friends about trauma at the appropriate stage in your friendship is considered trauma dumping, I’m sorry to say that I’m afraid you don’t have close friends.

That, or you’re coddling and patronizing your friends for lacking the emotional maturity to handle deeper conversations.

True friendship comes from being comfortable with your vulnerabilities around your friends, and having each other’s backs. A support group isn’t a substitute because it’s premise is transactional in nature, where you are expected to talk about and listen to trauma without attachment.

Because men don’t have a strong enough social support system to have cathartic talks about their emotions. Because women aren’t willing to disproportionately shoulder emotional labor anymore.

The patriarchy hurts everyone. Normalize discussing mental health among men. Don’t let stigma stop you from telling your friends from how much they mean to you and how you’re here if they need to talk.

40% of Mormon missionaries leave their church after their missions.

Don’t turn them away. Talk to them with kindness and compassion, and understand that they grew up as victims of a cult. Show them there is so much more to the world than the what the LDS church tells them.

Yes, rat experimentation is the cornerstone of modern medicone, but that doesn’t make it any less fucked up.

Something can be equally good for people yet completely inhumane. It doesn’t cancel each other out.

Do I think we should stop experimenting on rats? Absolutely not. But we can try to at least improve the general well-being of these rats and stop deliberately torture them. Peopes have done sleep deprivation experiments where a rat is forced to stay awake or fall in the water and start to drown.

The fucked up part are the experiments, not the euthanasia.

Rats have to be killed because we don’t know if they will continue to suffer after the painful experiments done on them. They can’t be let out either because it can harm the general rat population. Companies don’t give enough of a shit about keeping rats alive in rat retirement homes either.

Walk? In this suburban hell?

Weird how this meme format is always ‘man nerd’ and ‘woman normal’.

Why are we redefining someone else’s gender for them instead of redefining what it means to be a man? Normalize make up and ‘girl clothes’ for men. Normalize looking pretty for men. Regardless if someone declares themselves trans or cis, believe them.