I’ve seen all kinds of takes as to why there seems to be an uptick in men commenting on what women are wearing to the gym, and why jokes like the one Shane Gillis made on SNL are on the rise. I’ve seen people be confused and ask why men don’t like seeing women dress provocatively, that you’d think they’d like it. Ive seen people say women used to dress scantily at the gym and nobody cared. I’ve seen people suggest that the issue men have is that they want to control women, or that they are angry and jealous that they can’t have them, there are all kinds of theories.

IMO, these all miss the point. The issue is that men are sick of being made to feel like lecherous creeps. They’re sick of normal, healthy male sexuality being twisted into something dirty and wrong. So when we are showered with videos “catching” men glancing at a woman for half a second at the gym, or see endless posts about how disgusting it is to hit on a woman in the gym, combined with women dressing more and more provocatively, it adds up. Now when I see a woman in the gym wearing underwear, I need to be vigilant that I don’t look in her direction. I don’t want to have to be worried about that, I want to just work out.

This attitude of “I’m going to dress and act as sexually provocative as I can, but fuck men if they look” is pervasive throughout culture, and men are sick of it. Every pop star, celebrity, they all act like this.

If we just went back to “I can dress as provocatively as I like, but I’m not going to act shocked when guys check me out, and I’m not going to deny that this is in fact a provocative outfit”, then everybody could go back to normal. But we can’t just keep sending messages to men that their normal sexual urges are gross and need to be hidden at all times unless specifically, verbally asked for, and then having women parade around them in their underwear. It’s a recipe for disaster.

The fact is the vast majority of people who commit wanton acts of aggression like rape or murder have something wrong with them. No amount of poverty or financial strife could turn a regular person into a rapist or a homicidal maniac. Roughly 1% of the population is responsible for over 60% of violent crime, and there is no reason to have mercy toward those people.

The counter argument for the death penalty is about how it's not a deterrent, but I think if you kill the lowest and most violent people in our society and cut violent crime by 60%, it would be a huge win.

This is the most accurate description of this site and how it functions that I've ever read. It's a big left wing consensus manufacturing machine. Always was. And of course it works off of free labor while the executives are all millionaires. That's the cherry on top of the cake.

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/2111156064661942443

Disclaimer: This post does not generalize against women. It’s all good automod

This opportunistic woman’s entire timeline is shady as hell. Marriage history that doesn’t add up, husband’s winery that went from basically nothing to millions on paper then quietly disappeared once people started asking questions, the unprecedented and massive Minnesota fraud, her family history.
She rode that brief wave of anti-America, burn-everything-down momentum perfectly while it was fashionable. Media and the party treated any scrutiny as heresy. You weren’t allowed to question any of it without being told you were the problem. Now the mood has shifted and those sacred cows aren’t untouchable anymore.
She’s more exposed than she has ever been. This investigation into the citizenship paperwork will be her undoing. Bye Felicia.

That's it.

Her policies, to the extent they exist, are the same old grievance politics that most of the country sees as toxic and unproductive, at best.

She was elected by a state that allowed for billions in welfare fraud for the same reason they elected her in the first place: saying anything bad about Somali refugees or immigrants is automatically racist, electing them to Congress means you are truly enlightened.

"Malignant narcissism is a severe, destructive clinical construct that combines the grandiosity of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) with antisocial behavior, paranoid tendencies, and ego-syntonic sadism (deriving satisfaction or triumph from hurting others)"

This is literally everyone on reddit.

If you don't have context, Canada nationalism has always been anti American and has been since like the 1800s. But right now, with the US government's current actions, it has validated and made it particularly intense.

I personally dislike US institutions and corporations a lot. But I do not have a problem with American people. I like aspects of the US.

Canadian nationalism should be confident enough in itself to not rely on doing things differently than the US to feel good. I do not care if we happen to do some things similar or differently, I care about whether what we are doing is moral and good.

Both can be true at the same time, you can do good stuff while that stuff isn't American, if you want to argue that. But we do not need to compete for no reason and especially not on small things.

Do you believe in peace, multiculturalism, and compromise? There's no problem with that. But predicating your nationalism on being a negation of another country, reinforces your reliance on them to feel good and bad.

Tldr: Basically, I think Canadians should be more independent of whatever the US does, good or bad. Mexicans probably manage this better than Canadians.

I see this advice thrown around all the time: "Just ignore her, it'll hurt her ego and make her chase you." Guys, let’s be real for a second—this strategy is completely useless if she already has a line of guys waiting to give her attention.

When you decide to act cold or distant with a highly attractive woman, thinking your silence will create some kind of void, you are forgetting one crucial thing: alternative validation (or narcissistic supply).

If a woman is constantly getting DMs on Instagram, compliments in real life, free dinners, and daily attention from dozens of guys, your strategic "no contact" isn't going to phase her. She won’t even notice your absence because her need for validation is already fully satisfied elsewhere. She’s not going to sit around wondering, "Why is he ignoring me?" She’s just going to move on to the next guy in her inbox who gives her immediate attention.

The fundamental mistake is using distance as a manipulation or seduction tactic. We like to think that depriving her of our attention will force her to chase us. But in a dating market where attractive women are flooded with attention, that’s just a delusion.

The only real reason to ignore her? Doing it for yourself.

Cutting off your attention only works if your goal is to pull yourself out of a game where you're just a number. Do it to protect your peace, your dignity, and to invest your time in someone who actually reciprocates. If you’re doing it hoping she’ll come crawling back, you’re just wasting your time staring at a blank screen.

What do you guys think? Have you ever actually seen the "ghosting to make them like you" tactic work on highly sought-after women, or is it always a total flop?

“No one is above the law”, her words on X

But apparently, she is so afraid of being exposed and denaturalized that she has gone into hiding after the FBI raided her home as part of an investigation into alleged immigration fraud and other fraud allegations against her

If she has nothing to hide, why has she gone into hiding and disappeared from public view?

For comparison, Trump’s Mar a Lago property was also raided, but he didn’t go into hiding, so why is she?

It’s highly suspicious for a congresswoman to disappear from public view while under investigation simply because her home was legally raided

Edit:

So many people here treat her like an ordinary person, no she isn’t, she is an elected representative, a congresswoman, therefore she shouldn’t go into hiding when she is under investigation

Defending her isn’t the hill to die on, and it looks like you guys are giving her a pass

They are the worse of the worse on Reddit, annoying, passive aggressive, moral superiority complex, argumentative over the dumbest things, deflection and nit picking when they aren’t “winning”, down voting any Critical reply.

My experience with them has almost entirely been negative and view replying to them as a waste of time, even more so than the average Reddit interaction. Mods get stereotyped all the time in memes but I think these 1%s might actually be those memes.

After Ukrainian drones blew up Yandex data centers in Russia a few days ago, a lot of subreddits suddenly got way quieter. The endless streams of pro-Russia, pro-Iran, and pro-Hamas comments, instant downvotes, and copypasted arguments almost completely disappeared overnight.

​This made one very awkward truth very obvious a massive chunk of the arguments you see on Reddit aren't from real people they come directly from hostile bot farms and redditors fall for it every single day. russia and Iran use the same physical server farms to run thousands of fake accounts and bot scripts. Their goal isn't just to make their own countries look good. to post propaganda or anti Western comments, stir up outrage, and trick Westerners into hating their own countries or repeating foreign propaganda.

​The funniest part is that redditors love to think they are way too smart to be brainwashed. Yet every day, thousands of real users upvote, reply to, and parrot talking points that were literally typed out by an automated script running on a server rack in Russia.

When those servers were blown up, that huge crowd of online support vanished instantly! It proves that a lot of what people think is a popular opinion online is completely fake, and people are way easier to manipulate than they'd ever like to admit..

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We should stop judging an entire gender because of a few people

We should stop judging an entire sex based on something bad that one or few person of that sex have done.

I'm sick and tired of people bringing up Clancy's case (whose mental state is questionable) to justify their views against women, or of others using the Cornell Seven case to claim that all guys are bad, even though the facts surrounding the Cornell Seven case are still unclear.

I'm fed up with these generalizations about the sexes. It's not okay to use an isolated, anecdotal case involving someone of a particular sex to condemn everyone of that sex. Both men and women do this, and it's infuriating.

I’m gonna give the example of the Congo war, for the last few years, progressives added free Congo to their repertoire of countries to free, and yet if you ask them what is happening in the Congo, most will not know anything. For example, I saw a video of a guy on TikTok shaming the viewers for not knowing what is happening in the Congo, but instead of explaining he goes on a tangent about Leopold without explaining the current situation, and all other videos and posts on other social medias by western progressives are like that, or they’ll say generic stuff about children starving without saying who even are the sides fighting.

Especially hilariously recently, a group of blackwater operatives were ambushed by M23 rebels.

Progressives on Twitter and other social media rejoiced at this, saying stuff like “what are they doing there”, “they came to kill Congolese and steal their ressources”. Said the same thing when it came out that Israelis send funding or weapons.

Well the funny thing is that they were there at the behest of the legitimate Congolese government who asked them for help against the Rwandan-backed rebels, so what happened about freeing the Congo then that they were shouting about, isn’t that what they want?!

But even though this information was plastered in front of them, the narrow progressive mind couldn’t understand this and short-circuited and kept saying that the US and blackwater are killing Congolese and colonizing them.

As a Middle Easterner, this isn’t anything new to me, western progressives seem to have the understanding of teenage girls when it comes to those things, it’s basically just “war is le bad or something”, without having any care or interest in knowing the details of the situation, who are the players or motivations, and this is what lead to a lot fucked up policies from the West that still affect the region and other areas of the World negatively.

The internet is overselling the boss girl, single and happy narrative. Of course, you can be happy with or without marriage, children, or your own apartment. But we also need to acknowledge that loneliness is real, and most people crave companionship.

As a single woman in my mid-30s with several single women friends, I can tell you that many of us do want to get married. We aren't desperate; we're simply waiting for compatible partners.

What's interesting is that men don't make such daily reels about how happy they are without wives or children. Why do women feel the need to keep proving they're thriving?

Being single is okay. Admitting loneliness should be okay, too.

The UK has literally been warned by the UAE and several other Muslim-majority countries that the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamist organizations are openly recruiting at UK universities.

Yet the UK does barely anything about it. Jihadists are literally quite openly trying to recruit students at UK universities to join radical Islamist organizations. And the Muslim Brotherhood remains perfectly legal in the UK.

Subsequently, the UAE is now refusing to provide scholarships to Emirati students to study in the UK out of fear of jihadist indoctrination at UK university campuses.

I mean just think about it. 20 years ago or so this would have even been too far-feteched and ridiculous as a title for an article for The Onion. Like a fairly conservative Islamic country removing the UK from its scholarship program because they consider the UK to be a breeding ground for radical jihadist ideology.

Really goes to show how serious of a problem Islamic extremism has become in the UK and other European countries.

It feels like whenever a woman exhibits any problematic or questionable behavior at all, all these people start freaking out and yelling at you for noticing her problematic behavior and label it a “trauma response.” They make these sweeping claims that make no sense and then treat you like an idiot for not “understanding” that a highly questionable behavior is a “trauma response.”

There’s recently been a lot of discourse about women repeatedly having sex with men or keeping in contact with men they claim raped or abused them. And when you say “hey, why haven’t you blocked the guy who you claim raped you?” All these people show up and say “Omg, it’s like, a trauma response to want to repeatedly have sex with someone who assaulted you. It’s so obvious. How dare you judge her.”

Even after the Cornell 7 texts leaked from the woman who claims she was raped, she repeatedly said things like “our bodies our choice” and “nothing we did was against the law.” And here come the same people… “Omg, don’t you know that telling someone they did nothing wrong and that nothing illegal happened is CLEARLY a trauma response,” … so you’re saying that it’s our obligation as a society to interpret her words in the complete opposite way of what she actually is on record saying because her own statements were a “trauma response” ??

Then you get into women who repeatedly go back to loser men who they claim are abusive to them. The same story. “Omg, she got with that guy who has seven kids by seven different women because she has attachment issues. Don’t be mean to her, it’s a trauma response.”

I’ve also had female friends of mine completely sabotage relationships with great guys because they insist on going through their phones or accusing them of cheating or whatever else with no basis. Then the other girls say stuff like “Omg, she has trauma from this guy from six years ago, it’s a trauma response, don’t judge her.”

Like, at what point does this end and are you just, as an adult human being, responsible for your own behavior? Can a woman do anything questionable or problematic or self-destructive without it being a “trauma response?” The internet runs cover for insane women who act in bad faith like this constantly and it’s absolutely wild.

No one is out here saying that men are doing anything as a “trauma response” because we’re allowed to say that men have personality defects and character flaws. For some reason women always get this weird therapy-speak, external reasoning applied to their behavior.

Like, who cares about having a family if you can't even support yourself or your partner. I don't think any child wants to be born into a city full of bombs all because of you and because you decided that it counts as winning if you bring a innocent life into war. It won't bring any good.

Europe has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. It has an even lower birth rate than any nation in the Americas. What's alarming is that, migrants in Europe who don't share European values of democracy, free speech, open criticism of thoughts and ideologies, and fairness are out breeding Europeans in broad daylight, especially a certain demographic of people whose religion tells them that they must conquer the world for their deity by either overwhelming the demographic balance of a certain country and forcing their religious laws into the nation, or by violent takeover.

It's really alarming what's happening in Western Europe now. According to certain reports, more than half of the babies that were born in Brussels, Belgium are babies of migrants, and less than half of the birth rate are native Belgians. In Sweden, it's the same. The demographic of Malmo, Sweden is slowly being transformed into a non-native European majority, while the Indigenous Swedes are becoming the minority.

In England, Muslims are starting to takeover positions of power. London is ruled by a Muslim Mayor, as well as several English boroughs.

I don't know, but if this trend continues that migrants are having twice or thrice the birth rates of Native Europeans, I believe Europeans will be a minority in their own continent in the century to come.

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Why is Reddit's moderation so strict on racist content (even with people who don't care about race but don't like some religion which is their right), yet so lenient on misogynistic and misandrist content? This is not a good thing, as it fuels the gender war!

And a lot of redditors here who are mysoginistic and misandrist are just influencable people unable to have their own opinion and who think they are high IQ because they believe internet content instead of what really happen IRL. To think that an entire gender is bad is not very intelligent.

I feel like a lot of people think like, "cooking is a chore, so if I do a chore then it's fair that the other person has to do the chore of cleaning up." I have two problems with this: Firstly, for me personally (I know not everyone is like this), cooking is kinda fun and can be creative, whereas cleaning isn't at all, so those aren't equal chores. Secondly, the person who decided to cook something (while not cleaning while they cook) made the unilateral decision that right now is going to be time for having whatever meal they chose and for someone else to clean up a mess. It's obvious to me that the duty to clean the kitchen after cooking should primarily fall on the person who decided to cook something.

This next thing is say is going to sound ridiculous but it's true, please don't let the absurdity subtract from my points above. I have a friend who's mother is 95% unemployed (she does little things for money but she doesn't pay the bills in their house anymore) and is functionally his maid. That seems kinda fair but the way my friend treats her isn't. He likes saying, "the nice thing about having a mum is that when you cook something you can say, 'here, come try this' and once she has a bite of it it's now her job to clean it up." He recently had an incident here he punched her in the face (he said it wasn't hard but it was enough that she went to stay with other family for a few days and texted him that she's scared of him). My friend had been cooking while drunk and she came in and started yelling when she saw how big the mess was so my friend punched her to shut her up. His excuse was, "I was trying to do something nice and she yelled at me." I said, "but she was going to have to be the one to clean that mess up, right?" And he acknowledged yes. Important context: my friend's dad had suspected bipolar or something (he was like Jekyll and Hyde according to my friend) and he grew up watching his dad beat up his mother until he left when my friend was in primary school. That might be part of why he doesn't see why the punching thing was so bad. I don't get why some people don't see that leaving the mess doesn't "make even" with the "favor" of sharing something you cooked with someone.

Among the greatest criticisms of the death penalty is the possibility the person being executed being innocent. This is a totally fair criticism - if there is any possibility of innocence the maximum penalty should be life imprisonment.

However in cases such as terrorism and mass shootings guilt is totally unquestionable in many (if not most cases). Shooters are often apprehended or killed at the scene which ideally (perhaps omitting the insanity defense) are cut and dry cases.

Thus due to the cut and dry nature of cases/unquestionable guilt of these perpetrators I see no reason to stay the death penalty. The death penalty should be performed as soon as humanly possible after court proceedings as to not subsidize the existence of these people.

I'm so impossibly mad. I'm not just angry at the state of the world that I'm forced to live in, but I'm mad that the rest humanity isn't as angry as me.

The powers that be have taken away our futures, our lives and they're going to keep taking until there's nothing left. Yet I just sit here and do nothing, we sit here on the Damn internet and do nothing. Our ancestors fought and died for less than what we ask for. What will it take to push us to that?

In my opinion Reddit is like a preschool with padded walls and padded furniture. It's so safe that it's actually disgustingly saccharine in that HR meeting kind of way.

On other sites, you can call some guy you're beefing with a cunt and the worst that can happen is them calling you one back. On Reddit, though? Even just saying "people who do this are cunts" will get you banned by some mod and you'll get an entire lecture about how using the word cunt is rooted in misogyny and how you're a terrible human being for using such such language, and blahblahblah. Either that, or you'll get get chewed out and then blocked immediately so that you can't get a word in.

I miss when the internet was a wild west where anything goes. Reddit used to be like that a (very), long time ago, but now it has a gaping hole where its metaphorical balls used to be.