Feb 26 2025
“Is there a moral or logical justification for a creator to weild capricious power of life and death over his creations?” from “Stones of Significance”
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“Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.”
“Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.”
(both from Insistence of Vision)
Feb 23 2025
So I watched American Tragedy (purporting to explain the American tragedy of school shooting) last night—actually I fast-forwarded through a lot because it was so superficial and, thus, boring, ignoring the elephants in the room.
(i) once simply standing beside his wife, the boy’s mother—as if that proves he’s a good husband and father; he’s a breadwinner, he has a job, he’s making money for the wife and kids; apparently that’s all that matter (how convenient, as he’d be doing that anyway, without wife and kids—he’d still have to pay rent, buy food and water …); we never see the man interacting with his wife, let alone talking with her about matters of substance; we also never see him interacting with his son, let alone talking to him about matters of substance
(ii) twice I saw the man’s face: it was completely devoid of warmth, and marked by a frown, no doubt permanent, suggesting seriousness and disapproval, possibly anger; anything else is unacceptable for a real man
(iii) the only time I saw enthusiasm, perhaps even joy, was when he was watching a football game on tv—that’s the only time men are allowed enthusiasm, perhaps even joy
(One of the women interviewed said the problem is both guns and mental illness, but she failed to see that we raise our young boys to become men, who are by definition mentally ill.)
So of course young boys become cold and aggressive; all the good stuff is flooded over by testosterone and shamed out of them by dead dads and jocks; no surprise, they want to kill themselves and others.
Hopefully every high school has at least one male teacher who is a decent human being, one male adult who has survived puberty and the relentless cultural pressure to become otherwise. Such teachers should start ‘Decent Human Being’ clubs for the boys, so they have a community right from grade nine all the way to graduation, a community that will help them. Because boys clearly need help. To maintain their humanity, to become decent human beings.
Feb 23 2025
When we talk to/about men and condoms, we say ‘Use protection’, but when we talk to/about women about various options, we say ‘Use contraception’. The difference is NOT insignificant.
In the second case, we’re talking about preventing conception, about not becoming pregnant, about not becoming a parent.
In the first case, we’re talking about protection from disease. THAT’S what men are concerned about. Not becoming a parent. (I guess because they have no intention of being a responsible one.)
(And, what, they assume that any woman who has sex with them is having sex with dozens of men and so is infected? From one or more of those dozens of men, I’ll point out. And they assume that women are promiscuous because they themselves are?)
Feb 22 2025
In an effort to help reduce the trade imbalance (aka “deficit”), Canadians are starting to buy a lot of guns from the U.S. (Jass Richards)
Feb 08 2025
from https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=558
Feb 08 2025
https://archive.ph/bPU7T
(And when you put it THAT way … !)
Feb 08 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/sterilization-women-roe-v-wade-trump
Feb 08 2025
https://www.wired.com/story/women-autonomy-birth-rates-gender-rights/
Right. Because low global population levels are the problem. We need MORE people! We need to INCREASE our demands on our natural resources! Un-fucking-believable.
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