An element of culture which is passed on through society through non-genetic means.

Is that added sugar, or sugar from the other ingredients?

My pasta sauce doesn’t have any sugar in it, but it does have tomatoes, browned onions and wine, all of which contain natural sugar.

Looks like they’d have got on quite well. Maybe Bin Laden possessed him.

Interesting. Why?

I guess so. Like most whataboutism it’s a deflection for the sake of self- preservation. The truth is that there are specific problems with the way society treats women, and recognising that is disruptive and possibly painful.

The problem is that it’s so easy to see it as a mechanism to maintain the status quo. Which it so often is. Even when men call for change, it’s quite often “women should behave differently” rather than “everyone needs to reflect on their behaviour and start making changes for the better.”

I think people do care about men’s problems, but too often it just comes out as “the problem is toxic masculinity”.

Fundamentally yes that is a major problem, and we need to find a better identity that men can subscribe to. But it’s like taking a book and just showing people the last page: it seems like irrelevant nonsense without the preceding understanding.

If we set up a place where we listened to each other, and to the feedback of women, with the intent of forging a new and more functional form of masculinity, I for one would be very interested indeed.

That’s the problem. Some folks managed to create wholesome men’s subreddits back in the day. Don’t know how they’re faring now.

Good point. I think in a case like this it’s useful to explicitly point out that you’re trying to relate, and to format your response as a question so as to demonstrate that you’re actually interested in her experience. The fact that she will likely have experienced a lot of bad- faith responses will mean that we need to tread carefully when trying to compare our experiences.

The time to talk about men’s problems is any time you like, except when a woman has just started talking about women’s problems. If you redirect a conversation about women’s problems, you’re telling the women that you don’t care about their problems. If that’s the case, fine. Just don’t contribute, and let people who want to discuss the women’s problems do that. Start another conversation about men’s problems elsewhere.

If you’re a digital artist, your domain is the internet. Your audience is the internet. Your medium is the internet. In that case, you’ll write about the internet.

Bring it up in a space, any space, that isn’t there for the purpose of talking about women’s issues. Make a community now. Write in it.

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Make it a pay per view and you’ll raise more money than the federal debt. We’ll watch from all over the world.

We can’t all afford to care. This is the huuuuuuuge problem with individual action. People living hand-to-mouth on an inadequate income – that’s most people – will buy the cheapest brand and of course they will. We can’t make them buy the “responsible” stuff just by shaming them. All it’s going to do is force them to justify themselves with “it’s all just green bullshit anyway”

Systemic change is the only way. The only way.

Vote in your safe state!

They’re complaining about having to beat themselves.

Schools in the US are governed by boards elected by the public. Anti-science nutcases run for these positions and get their churches to back them. The only way to keep them out is to vote in all the down-ballot races, and remind your friends how important it is.

I’ve been hating this turd cutter for so long it would be a relief to have a fresh candidate. Trump lives rent-free in my spleen and I’m sick of it.