Yikes! Upscale restaurants.I think that spell correct is getting weird. It's been deciding to guess what word I am typing, puts periods in weird places and other bullshit I don't want.

But yeah, there are a lot of susceptible people out their, and social media has them thinking their perfectly normal life is a failure, and end up leaving a loving stable partner because of some influencer telling them deserve only the very best.

A human version of making perfect the enemy of good enough.

Your personal attack on me tells me all I need to know about you Drinkypoo. Your counter argument is noted.

Social media has an interesting issue. It is heavily curated. There are people say on Facebook who post about their incredible, wonderful lives, full of upscale restraints, many vacation trips to exotic locations, and expensive fashions. And a lot of other people see that, and find their own lives greatly lacking and disappointing. And some even leave their partners to find that "better person." But curation is curation, many of the perfect couples are dissembling.

TikTok has relationship "experts" that talk readers into testing their spouse with things like pretend breakups in public, or jealousy tests with friends with their phones out creating more content. It often backfires. Or improvement programs that are more akin to demands for domination.

So susceptible people can fall into self destructive habits when the pretend breakups become real, or the other tests end the relationship.

I don't know if that would be considered "brain rot", but it is certainly harmful.

First thing - I fully support that adults should be Abel to make decisions about transitioning if they desire. It is their bodies, their choices. The extent to which I accept is infinite. any and all things they wish to do to their bodies - I fully support that.

On the other hand, a child who cannot give consent to sex should not be able to give consent to remove their sexual organs. If you have a problem with that - not my problem.

Just a question. Have you never ever once in your life questioned your sexuality? You have since you were a small child known exactly who you are, and that you would remain that way until your last breath? If you are hetero - you never once looked at a guy and thought - "he's hot".

Many teenagers have same sex fun once or twice, and decide they aren't interested in pursuing it further, and wish to be and are hetero

Even as an adult, there is a rubicon to be crossed. My wife's best friends grandson went transgender. He was dressing as a woman, taking hormones, for a number of years. Preparing to have his penis amputated in 2027. His wife supported that transitioning.

Just last week, he changed his mind. Decided he was actually a male and wanted to be a male. Stopped hormones, cancelled the amputation, cut his hair when he decided that he and his wife were just exploring a sexual kink. She agreed. But her was pretty certain he wanted to be a woman at one point.

Now on to children. I like to use this example, Chloe Cole is not the only one who changed her mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Tell me how miss Cole knew from day one that she was an actually a man. She didn't - she was just going through what was once considered an awkward puberty, but today is considered a non ending gender choice that must be affirmed and must be performed. 15 years old when she had her first rubicon surgery. She is still recovering from her gender affirming drug regimen, and where her breasts once were is having a lot of trouble healing. Then she changed her mind. She wanted to be a female. This happened when she was 15 years old. We keep hearing about how it doesn't happen, but we are performing medical experimentation on children

I take it you fully approve of underage children having experimental surgery and amputation of parts? You are much much smarter than I am. You very specifically wrote:

Sounds like you just consider ruined lives as collateral damage. What is obvious is that you do not care at all. Empathy for the broken dare not stand in the way of narrative.

I totally expected that pointless reply to end with a link to r/Feminism Anyhow, you show your intellect, with the modern person's inability to concentrate for more than 5 seconds. Congratulate yourself for fighting the war of who could care less.

3 insightful - sometimes Slashdot seems to be devolving.

Funny you should ask. My wife finds "birthing person" exceptionally offensive and making women appear to have only one reason to exist.

Her logic? A woman can do anything that she is capable of. That women have the same intellectual capacity as men, but their biology makes them in general smaller and less strong physically than men. "Birthing person" is exactly that a human being whose purpose in life is giving birth. Nothing more.

And just for the record, my wife was a Vice President in her company, paid more than the president because she was worth more, and she and I paced each other in earning during our careers. She is a feminist archetype, yet finds third and fourth wave feminists to not be about equality, but domination while claiming perpetual victimhood, so in the end, will fail. Men will simply avoid women, especially for relationships and marriage. That's what she thinks of all this

The narrative that men are the source of all evil, which in recent years has become claims that we are all rapists. https://everydayfeminism.com/2... I've seen that in a lot of feminist dogma - does your perching person agree you are a rapist? You think this is a healthy dynamic?

What does your birthing person think of all of this?

You have made an extraordinary claim, that Women are overwhelmingly medically neglected. Provide the extraordinary proof. And don't play the "I didn't say that"

Ovwewhelmingy means overwhelmingly.

Now here's some numbers for you to deny : https://jameslnuzzo.substack.c...

About 80 percent of funding from NIH, goes toward non sex specific research.

Of the remaining 20 percent, most of that budget goes toward female specific research. This amounts to about 3.5 – 4.5 billion dollars per year for women’s health and 1.5 – 2 billion dollars per year for men’s health. I really want to read how you spin this to women being overwhelmingly neglected.

NIH has an Office for Research on Women’s Health (ORWH). They do not have an office for research for men's health. Explain to us how not having an office for male research, and one for female research and that expenditure difference is overwhelmingly neglecting women.

Seriously - your narrative that women are somehow the victims in all matters, including your statement that they are overwhelmingly neglected shows the exactitude of my statement that pissed you off is exceedingly accurate when I wrote: "This might sound strange to say, but it is obvious that few care about what is happening to men, happening right before us."

You do not care what is happening to men - you appear to want every cent of funding that is not sex specific to go to women - and you will still say women are overwhelmingly neglected. I've seen that game before, it's based on feelings, not facts. You've been fed a narrative, that men are always wrong, that women are neglected, and it ends up being a very. strange sort of self hatred for men, and designated victim narrative for women.

Anyhow - would you be happy if the entirety of the sexual specific funding go to woman? Not once cent for the enemy of women - men? I believe you would, or are you ignorant of the facts, or just narrative based dissembling?

Looking forward to your proof.

You beat me to it. Bisphenol A is banned here, but they keep finding it in things. But yes, there are some people who want men to be feminized. And by gosh, the dietary changes that introduce phytoestrogens, Soy products, soy milk, and endocrine disruptors like BPA, the Phthalates,)PVC softeners, Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants) in a class known as Xenoestrogens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What is surprising is that few seem to make this overdosing of endocrine disruptors with some real world issues like lowered sperm counts, males needing testosterone, the remarkable appearance of breasts on males known as gynecomastia. To be blunt, skinny guys with tits should tell us something not so good is happening.

Would we have better luck getting rid of some of this stuff and moderating intake of foods that can disrupt hormonal balance if we let everyone know it is not good for women either? This might sound strange to say, but it is obvious that few care about what is happening to men, happening right before us.

One of the oddities of 21st century life. I could show row after row of DNA test that show that there are male - or men, and female - or women. There is also a very small group that would properly be classed as intersex. Not debatable.

And amputating one's penis and forming a pretend vagina, or amputating breast and building a pretend penis no more changes a person's sex than amputating your arms and calling yourself a fish.

Wordsmithing is at its silly extreme in matters of male/female classification. where once male/female man/woman was pretty cut and dry, and was referenced with gender. It really is still that simple.

And every time the usual crowd finds their new word meaning problematic, think how they decided that gender was a social construct - leading to an infinite number of genders, all easily dismissed based on the society one is in, then deciding that a woman or man is a woman or man if the individual sayss they are. Which leads to more problems. So next they decide that the definition is birthing person, lactating person, and sperm donor.

Which happens to anger a huge number of women, by reducing their definition as merely a biological function. Interestingly, dehumanizing prepubescent, postmenopausal and infertile women. None of that grouping can give birth

Progressives work very hard and diligently to end up being non-progressive. All of this can be avoided by calling men men, women women, and acknowledging the very small number of intersex. We have the receipts. Then calling trans people trans people. Not a judgement, only an outward appearance thing - just human DNA. Do this rather than get so wrapped up in classification and co-opting standard terms and end up defining women as baby producing machines, while dehumanizing a lot of them. In the end, the usual crowd will make up a new term, which will inevitably be problematic.

This ain't that difficult folks.

Ahem - I was being sarcastic. look at the /s on the end. That is geekspeak for sarcasm.

Yes, there were many government secrets lost, and general mayhem, but for a brief moment, much stakeholder value was acheived. /s

Jeebuz autocorrect is officially on my shit list. My peers are now at the point of using the "Old person" pill boxes.

I'm guilty of liking slender women, and the wife is tall and naturally slender, but no. I definitely do not want the look that gives them. DDG or google Ozempic face. They might be un-naturally slender, but it kind of messes with their face too. Marketing says focus on the benefits. People don't want to look like "losers" so they live with the side effects and don't talk about the bad side.

Marketing is stupid, IMO. Meanwhile, I'm on no maintenance meds, unlike my peers, who are not at the point of using the little time of day and day of the week plastic pill cases. And seems like at least half of their meds are for the side effects of the others.

Love it!!!

Interesting point. I have to be on Facebook for what I do. But my condition for that was I could bork up my user info. I know enough of their algorithms to mess with them. Let's just say H.P. Lovecraft is in a lot of my personal info there. They don't even know if I'm male, female, and since I use a different country on VPN every time, I think the algorithm might be shitting the bed.

I had a friend like that in school. Good looking guy, funny, smart, dating the hot girl in high school. It changed overnight. They put him on meds, only worked a little. He ended up killing himself in his early thirties, a broken down alcoholic who was once on a success trajectory.

I agree. But that isn't the first step very often these days.

I might as well give my personal experience, forgive the oversharing. Around the first decade of this century, wife and I were in a rather stressful situation. Lost all our parents, my best friend, and our beloved pets in 5 years. She was helping her mother in a nursing home.

And to top it off, she was going through perimenopause.

Perimenopause is a time when women almost universally hate their husbands, it is kind of like a female mid life crisis. So far, this sounds like a good setup for therapy. Someone to talk to who wasn't me.

But after a regular visit to the doctor about something else, he prescribed her a fairly powerful anti-depressant (can't recall the name)

Talk about not helping! She became the worlds champion nag, to the point I had to almost stop talking, because every conversation became a listing of my faults and inadequacies. She embarrassed me terribly in some social settings, to the point I only attended them myself. She had blackouts.

And she obtained a case of permanent tardive dyskinesia - fortunately not severe, just a never ending tapping action with her right hand. No one notices it but me.

Finally we agreed to wean her off whatever witches brew she was taking. And she returned to normal. She was not clinically depressed, she was highly stressed and sad about it. Talking to a therapist would have been the perfect solution to a stressful situation.

Me? I handled the stress with intense exercise.

Maybe I'm not all that confused. 8^)

All of this oversharing is just a personal note on what I consider an over drugging of women. Society, social media, convincing them there is something wrong if they are not in constant happiness - 24/7/365 euphoria. So the ads on TV show these sad women suddenly transformed into happy smiling social butterflies, if they only take an anti depressant plus an atypical anti-psychotic - for the rest of their damn lives.

I find it closer to a criminal act than helping women.

Is the only thing keeping you from being suicidal - tuition? It's a pity you didn't grow up in the 1970's, been drafted to fight in Vietnam, and come home missing a few limbs.

Back then we worked summer jobs to pay that tuition. Today you take out a loan, live off the loan. You have it soooo tough, weakling. Of course some things were different. You just aren't smart enough to know that. Embrace your loser status, you earned it. Oh, sorry, you spell it "looser."

Their sex drive gets nuked too. They get tardive dyskinesia as well. Which is often permanent.

What I have trouble grokking is how easily we as people invest powerful drugs, and quite frankly, fuck ourselves up.

I hear many speak of Big Pharma like they are drug free, but gobbling dangerous meds like candy - I've come to the conclusion that they really really want to drug themselves to oblivion, a numbness they confuse with happiness, but want it free. There is serious depression. There is psychosis. But people who have ben brainwashed by social media and raised believe that there is something wrong with them if they are not 24/7/365 euphoric, they are ill. Just wait until the Ozempic users start experiencing pancreatitis. Or heart problems because they lose as much muscle mass as fat.