Dogs have become elevated to a status in society never before thought possible; to speak even lukewarmly about them or things like dog bite statistics, dogs in restaurants, etc. publicly is to become a social pariah. Not everyone should have them, let alone foist them on others.
@emeriticus
These people make an absolute mockery out of everything in this world that is beautiful, holy, and good - they are a mockery of life itself.
Is there a term to describe when you feel feminism has harmed modern women due to extreme sexual "liberation"/perversion of bio roles, but yet you understand it's important to preserve female dignity, safety, & independence? Cause that's how I feel; what is that?
How do you prepare to pass cultural traditions on to future kids if your own family didn't pass many down to you? It's something I resent as an Ameri-mutt; on neither my Italian nor English/Irish side do I feel I've absorbed any meaningful traditions. How do you correct this?
Update: I've been curious about Orthodoxy in the last month. I have attended divine liturgy a few times now & feel that philosophically/ritually/community-wise, it's the closest to what I seek so far.
I am in great debt to the men & women on X who have piqued my curiosity. โฆ๏ธ
@JoshLekach
Being grounded and in touch with family and friends does inherently involve tying yourself to a place even if it doesn't meet all your needs 100% of the time. She'll get burnt out searching for a complete and perfect happiness she'll never find anywhere.
I always *knew* my friend's husband was a total pisspoor beta male, but I didn't know until today that he was a "her brother drunkenly started a fist fight with her, and husband went outside and locked himself in his car while his wife was getting beaten up" kind of beta male.
@Aristos_Revenge
Fantastic thread. It explains why the differences between men and women matter. As a woman, this is not misogynist to point out. Actually helps me understand my BF and where he struggles plus gives other insights about myself.
@LaocoonofTroy
1. Athena; wisdom, classical beauty, strength, & virtue
2. A woman playing drums; rhythm, musicality, & vitality (and my favorite instrument)
3. Winter scene; repose, awe, peace, & pensiveness
4. Reading in the garden: improvement, patience, & a nurturing love for life
@nocertainlynot
Former gifted kid - can't agree more. I've struggled to find inner love & accept imperfection with every single hobby/job I've pursued. I'm not much different than people "less intelligent" than me, but it has taken years to peel back my ego fomented by "gifted kid" syndrome.
@emilykmay
Yep. And I loved Thank you aIMee for the same reasons. Even more relatable because I had a friend-who-was-actually-my-bully literally named Amy. She wrote me a very heartfelt apology in my senior yearbook admitting how she was not ever kind to me.
@LeaMaric
I hate this whole gothy spooky era most childless white girls live in permanently, like okay Bethany, you are probably afraid of your own shadow but your house is covered in dead birds and bones year-round.
@DisgracedProp
You hit the nail on the head. Haven't been able to describe the disillusionment I've been feeling lately, which comes from people being divorced of meaningful work. That lack of spirit and beauty in the places we visit/things we use every day is disheartening.
@claireternal
Realizing I'm pretty sure two higher ups (who are each married, but not to one another) are having an affair. It's so seemingly obvious but no proof has ever come out, so I now have a low-level distrust for people so willing to dangle it uncomfortably in others' faces.
@MiriVinni
"Oh I'm just shy!" No, you live in a constant state of fear and aren't capable of holding conversation because you're unable to have your own talking points or appreciate real people since you worship your parasocial relationships you have with people online.
@RobertPLewis
@antidegented
It cost me $185 to prove I owed $200 in taxes, minus $800 in deductions, all because I made $2,700 in side gig work last year. Should just shovel driveways in winter and cut lawns for cash like the good ol' days ๐ค
@Philosophi_Cat
The older I get, the less I believe that the Protestant work ethic is a net positive for society. There is a middle path of striving, building, delaying gratification, etc. (all which built this country), but we're at the opposite end of it now where to even relax is sinful.
@bronzeagemaga
Big shocker, father is nowhere to be found. The fact that Freak by Nicki Minaj is played uncensored on the radio, or worse, is just another part of the problem.
@LostLandshark
Having a sexual fetish is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. It's been a long recovery toward discovering normal intimacy. I can't imagine what pornsick men go through trying to rewire their brains, either.
@AniseNot
Behavioral euthanasia is not practiced nearly as much as it should be. Shelters leverage the natural nurturing and emotional instincts of women who think by dressing them in pajamas and giving them treats that they will magically overcome a pitbull's prey drive & gameness.
It is both my biggest fear, & my biggest hope, that having children & the forced maturation required of motherhood will break me from my selfish, neurotic, & inflexible tendencies wrought from gifted child burnout, only child 'syndrome,' & fear of intimacy.
๐ฅบ Life's not easy.
@KILLTOPARTY
And then there's people like me who didn't date in high school and ended up wondering at one point if they're asexual as an adult simply because of how much I didn't relate to the hypersexual narrative pushed at us all, gay or straight, from every angle. This is so gross ๐คข
@andrewdoyle_com
When archaeologists unearth all these people's bodies someday, they're going to look immediately at their skeleton and say, "male" or "female."
@LaDonnaKebabe
No narcissism like trans narcissism. They sure love getting upset when people don't pay them the "right" kind of attention. Has to "gender-affirming" and can't be negative in any way!
I spent some time in small-town Wisconsin this week and it really struck me just HOW white (and therefore communally aware, courteous, friendly, pleasant, and fun) everyone there is. It was truthfully very refreshing.
@Slatzism
This might be my least favorite postmodern nonsense that's being pushed on to impressionable young people. Almost nothing is more predatory and narcissistic than polyamory.
1. Surprisingly less masculine than I expected...
2. When does my Undifferentiated-Androgynous pride flag arrive in the mail (so strangers know I am a biological female presenting a complex array of traits most humans express)?
@purplcabbage
Thanks for explaining this so well - it touches home on my own weaknesses which contributed to me walking away from decent past relationships. I think the "head fiction" is key. Men & women think and have DIFFERENT orientations about life & problems. We are not all mind readers.
The way normies react to you when you reveal you've been going to church (or even if you've been questioning materialism, trying to start your own personal spiritual practice, or otherwise swim upstream from cultural atheism in any way):
On a scale of 1-10 where you live, with 10 being the most, how much do you feel in the Christmas spirit?
Today brought it to about a 7, but otherwise it's been a dismal 2 all December. We need some snow, already.
@RaincoastCanuk
African warlords were already propagating slave trade of their own people long even before British colonists tried to (oh gosh, how dare they) nudge commerce toward buying and selling goods and resources, not humans.
"The Scramble For Africa," Thomas Pakenham
Twitter has me so tainted I can't even enjoy how handsome my boyfriend looked in a picture we took last night where he exaggeratedly leaned into my shoulder - green lines, NGMI, he's a simp, longhouse ๐
My long and delicate collarbones get me probably as many, or more, compliments as my eyes. Might be my favorite feature, and mine look like the top photo. How is this supposed to make you look "more feminine?" This is just devilish nonsense...
Chatting with coworkers, I realize so clearly that medicating yourself with Xanax and booze in any mildly inconvenient predicament, describing sexual escapades, and so nonchalantly relying on drugs instead of practicing any kind of temperance is just normal now.
@PhilippusArabus
How can people read these articles and not realize whites feel this way about their own spaces, AND then have the audacity to tell us "your replacement is a good thing actually, sweetie" without recognizing the hypocrisy?!
@LeaMaric
I think the humongous increase in food allergies and picky eaters in general is a larger signal toward coddling and weakness on behalf of parents. Introduction to unpleasant foods as a kid can stave off picky eating later in life, so it's truly a matter of will and discipline.
Poking around the Library of Congress - random selections of laborer portraits between 1930-1942.
Every guy had a physiognomy like this back then; now men have to fight to look strong and healthy.
Ah, yes, America, where our fast food is only made by old stock Englishmen and Irishmen, with no representation at all by any non-white races in food service.
Have you ever been inside a Taco Bell?
@clearchiaraa
A guy I know became a father recently and when I asked him how he felt about it, he said "Well, I'm not sure she's (the mother) who I want to marry, so..." Like... That's kind of a big deal. When will he inevitably break her heart and leave his baby fatherless? 6 months? 5 years?
@OInscendence
Teach me your ways ๐ซค you're so right though, I have a hard time distinguishing between "asking to have my needs met" & that turning into an argument." I am not emotionally salient enough usually to stay uncomfortable or be silent before saying something potentially harmful.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan
Yes! Stoicism is helping me conquer so much. My brief periods of emotional anguish and anger or uncertainty too shall pass like all other feelings that wash over us. Feelings ultimately are only there to point us toward, but not "command," our logic.
@realgirl_fieri
That really touches on the social ill we're living through right now. The same people who think having kids is immoral bc overpopulation/they're expensive/etc. use that to thinly veil the fact that they hate kids, whom they'd have to raise. They can control dogs to be FOR them.
I was watching Seinfeld last night, the episode about "good naked" vs "bad naked," and Elaine has a line about how "the female body is beautiful, the male body is utilitarian." Turns out Elaine Benes predates the philosophy of BAP by 20+ years!
It's the first time in my adult life - since working two jobs to pay off my student loans, denying myself luxuries for years - that I've had to truly worry about the cost of basic food/household needs. Your administration has done untold destruction to average Americans.
Gas is down more than $1.70 from its peak.
That adds up to around $180 a month for a typical family โ thatโs money in your pocket, not spent at the pump.
I just passed the peak American lib vehicle. I'm sure all the Kenyan children mining cobalt for your Tesla batteries are grateful for your service toward stopping climate change.
I'm listening to a podcast about a mom with two kids, & it took me halfway through the episode to realize she's referring to the 3 year old with they/them pronouns (keeps using "their"), NOT in fact referring to both of her two kids. The kid is deaf, I doubt he chose "they"!
Is it this common for autism moms to constantly excuse away their kids' bad behavior? Tugging on our arms and clothes = "oh, he's a comfort seeker." I know your kids are different, but you still have the responsibility to make sure your kids respect boundaries in their own way.
@OInscendence
Really beautifully said. I like to remain the optimist and hope through faith and hard, self-reflective work that both parties can heal these damaging wounds through the grace, persistence, and patience of the other.
My boyfriend just now: "our child will cure cancer and be the next Hitler... Sounds good to me" ๐
I am just a little tipsy for what it's worth! Happy New Year!
A girl I know signed her divorce papers recently & did a celebratory photo shoot of her tearing her wedding photos in half & lighting them on fire. Apparently ex hub was a cheater, but either way, that's such an immature look. Rural 30+ obese mom of 1 coming to Tinder near you.
@LeaMaric
This just brought to mind that my boyfriend's boss casually dropped at their last meeting that his girlfriend lets him go get "rub-n-tugs." Bro. That's not something 1. Your employees need to know, and 2. Something you should be ashamed to share, or do, if you're not single.
@eva_kurilova
Women: hey, maybe we should acknowledge that women are women regardless of how 'masculine' or 'feminine' we behave
Trans'women': nah, I'll just perform the most exaggerated stereotypes of femininity to show you I'm a woman (because it makes my pee pee hard)
@rwanitwt
Being surrounded by liberals in college and being an innate "pattern-noticer." The moral positions of the Left run concurrently to natural order. I always wondered why I was being taught to hate greatness and merit-based society, when that's what civilization needs to thrive.
2023 goals:
- Curate my femininity further; improve intimacy
- Form stronger friendships w/like-minded people
- Set better boundaries
- Listen more
- Play at least 5 shows with my band
- Build raised garden beds & grow more food
- Be more consistent w/my spirituality
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I'm not even Christian, but *good* if it gets us closer again to being led by virtuous, hard-working, non-gender- confused individuals who appreciate beauty & strength. We need a full reset. America has never been at such a point of weakness in my lifetime or for decades prior.
@nealjclark1
Hell, it's one of the things I hear pretty frequently from even pretty trad men... "Every man needs a good woman to push him to be his best," some variant of that. Just as women do well with male leadership & protection. It doesn't downplay the achievements of men to say this.
My friend's husband is transitioning, and like all AGPs who wait til they're married to "come out," he seems to have a penchant for interpreting fast food workers being nice as "hitting on him." How little they actually value women & see us as objects absolutely disgusts me.
Every single white bisexual woman I know. I also once identified as bisexual & I still never talked like this. They cling to it like glue, but then get pissed when people point out they seem to end up in heterosexual relationships (but still crave being LGBT to be 'special').