Let me just say people who want to be smart, people who want to think critically, people who want to be knowledgeable will always find a way. someone using chat gpt to write an essay they didn't care about in the first place, isn't eroding their critical thinking because that's not a skill they were ever interested in improving.
Everytime a new form of media or tool gets presented, everyone has this idea that we've "fallen" from the previous intellectually "pure" era, I had teachers that would complain about our access to Google because we should all go to the library. The culprit always shifts tv made people dumb, google,video games, YouTube, tiktok, chat gpt etc. Every few years someone is like *this* is the moment intellect died and *this* is the tool/media to blame.
You guys give people too much credit. A lot of this discourse assumes there are tons of people who engaged critically with every task, and then chatgpt ate their brain 😔 The truth is most people are just trying to get the task out of the way and move on to watching tiktok or a livestream for 5 hours. BE FUCKING FOR REAL for just a millisecond.
My dad was the only one who on his street that went to the library when he was growing up, his mates would listen to the radio enjoying the shade under a mango tree. Did the shade and radio give them a lobotomy that stopped them from wanting to read books? I'm confused.
Here's something that's true always no matter what : The average human will choose McDonald's for the mind over putting in real effort. People choose ease, people choose comfort. Do couches destroy muscle, do cushions destroy physical fitness. Should I blame memory foam for the fact that you haven't jogged since highschool PE or are those just your personal choices....
Blaming tools and "ease" for the lack of people's interest in learning is tired as fuck like. The doors have never been more open JSTOR is right there, we are drowning in free pdfs, there are documentaries everywhere. You can get free courses and resources from the top universities in the world, there are full university level courses on youtube for free.
There's no crisis of intellect here, I think a lot of you are just shocked at how many people never gave a fuck. I saw a grown man with a beard reading the hunger games in public, it's been hell out here for a long time.
do not give me a love confession note man i will straight up roll that shit into a joint. i am not kidding. fuck your feelings for me i am smoking that shit
what gets me about the radfems on here with boyfriends/husbands/children is they had to deliberately let everyone know that. they could've easily just not mentioned it and we wouldn't have been none the wiser but nope. they couldn't help themselves and had to not make a personal blog but specifically post on their radfem blog about how they don't even remotely practice what they preach. yet do think they're so much smarter and more aware than all the normie women with male partners and kids. they don't just date and marry men- they make a point of thinking they're superior than women who dont.
Right? But these women have been pushed into het relationships their whole life and have had them rewarded and encouraged, so when some women do NOT do that, they're taken aback. Like when a kid goes to school and realizes that the world doesn't revolve around them like at home.
Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn't the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There's nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn't already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can't even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.
Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don't already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.
But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.
It always tickles me when songs about rebellion and "doing it your way" are sung by THE most gender conforming women you've ever seen in your life. Its like ok bbg keep shining yayyy girlboss power divine feminine!! Eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man!!! Do it your way exactly like all the women around you and in media ❤️
i don't understand it when radfems/leans reblog or post content of super femmed-up women, usually celebs, like ... this is all the stuff radfems are criticizing and against because it harms women, do you really still find it aesthetically pleasing?? am i the crazy one for being confused?? i don't want to just straight up accuse so many people of being hypocrites but i really do not get it
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I don't believe in the power of fashion and I don't believe in women expressing their sexuality, because it seems to me that whenever women have the choice to 'express themselves', they always choose whoredom, and the tragedy of the commons ensures that if one woman whores herself out in order to advance her own goals, it means the rest of us have to either become our own pimps as well, or simply resign ourselves to being second class citizens.
TRAs be like: Are you gay as in bisexual or gay as in transphobic
"masculine" & "feminine" are inferior terms