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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Dude about to discover the “Male Loneliness epidemic”

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dude's just trying to coerce 18*-24 year-olds into having sex with him.

It's not very effective.

* Lets give him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And these same people who are MGTOW, or "men going their own way", are obsessed talking shit about women.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's "look at me !! ..I don't need you ! .. ... look at meeeeee"

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Right? If you have to tell people you're alpha, you ain't. Much less if you make it the only aspect of your personality.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I had my son at 28, not by 24. Speedrun: FAILED.

Oh, and wrote my first novel at 50. Also FAILED, apparently.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A novelist?? What a disappointment! /s

(But seriously, congrats, that's no easy feat!)

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

My ancestors are ashamed.

(And thanks. :) )

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 112 points 3 days ago (4 children)

No-one has any biological job. Live how you want.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even if we had it, imagine how small your life is if you actually believe we are born to do a biological job.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was put here to add carbon to the air and convert food into shit!

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 28 points 2 days ago

My job is to increase the entropy of the universe faster.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Imagine if we flipped the tables. If it's all on women to have and raise kids and nothing more, wouldn't that mean a man's job is to get laid/donate sperm, impregnate someone once, and that's it? If that's all there is and he's fulfilled his role, there's no need to stay alive after that. Like a male bee, exploding after mating. Why bother with society, hobbies, learning and growing? OP's "job" as a man is nothing more than to literally fuck off and die, mission complete.

Obviously I don't believe that, just taking his argument to its logical conclusion. I've heard people say that women are just for making babies so many times in my life, but I've never heard men's role put in the same terms.

It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. We're all so much more than our biological equipment. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, I just had to rant for a moment.

[–] Charapaso@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately they'll probably just say they are meant to be the masters of a harem and kill any potential rival males. Literally troglodyte shit

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[–] adry@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago

I like that reasoning. If I had any toxic male friends saying shit like this I might use it, thanks!

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 139 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jaicilgin: literally hasn't done shit

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 78 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Based on this evidence, I'd counter that he has ONLY done shit.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does he want women to marry several kids?

[–] whitecollarcry@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the sleepy right's agenda is only satiated with children

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[–] Aequitas@feddit.org 61 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I don't like this logic. It implies that a person's value depends on their achievements. The only difference between the two is what the most important achievements are. Ultimately, this reinforces the right-wing logic that there are people of different values.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's two people paying for premium at X. What do you expect 😐

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 17 points 2 days ago

Synthesis: All man is created equal, except those who give money to the richest man in the world for a louder voice on a nazi forum.

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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I would say starting an argument from a point of view which the other is guaranteed to agree with is a great tool to convince people.

In this case it's pretty obvious that people who say shit like "women only exist to bare children" will also look up to people with great achievements to their name. As such these two beliefs can be played against eachother.

If it won't convince the original bum saying the stupid, it will be a very spectacular way to disarm their logic in front of other people with similar but not so extreme opinions.

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Looked up this fool on social and you guessed it! He's super cringe with his wannabe lifestyle posts.

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tired of these see what the moron said reposts. All they do is promoting the moron.

[–] seerdomin1983@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

Don't feed the trolls aka don't take the engagement bait.

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Guarantee you he still thinks they are failures. His dick goes limp the moment he sees a woman with a job.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Natural selection. I hope he enjoys his self made “male loneliness” epidemic

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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

Rage bait…

[–] Sharlot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People grow, contribute, and succeed on their own timelines. There’s no single deadline for a meaningful life.

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just throwing it out there, that scientific discoveries can be done by married mothers as well

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, if you're not married with kid at 24 as a dude, you failed.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume 'Jaicilgin' failed.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I hope he never stopped failing

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

Listen, power to women, and Vera Rubin's work was amazing and she deserves every praise.

But nobody has ever proven the existence of Dark Matter. What's proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity, under our current understanding, requiring a large amount of mass that we have not observed.

Does that make sense? It could be that our models or understandings are just wrong, or it could be that there is some magical unobservable matter, but we don't know. We haven't proven anything.

The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 43 points 3 days ago (8 children)

What’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity

This is actually the bit that Vera Rubin discovered. The summary of her discovery in the quote is the issue :)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

Related: Gertrude Bell, mountain climber, archaeologist and overall badass british lady that helped shape the middle east post WW1. Despite being a woman, she managed to earn the respect of several nomad arab tribes, you know, those that see women as a man's property? Those. To the point that, when she died, they all came to her burial and ensured she was treated like a queen.

A very good, 3h17m doc on her life - https://youtu.be/anjha4JNAWg

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago

The types of people who believe a woman's only "biological job" is to shit out kids are the same fuckers who haven't achieved shit in their lives.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago (7 children)

This doesn't even make sense from a (pretty stupid) "you have to have children" point of view, what is stopping women to have kids later in life, when they've got an education, know what they want in life, and are financially and mentally stable enough to raise them?

Of course I know the answer starts with "m" and ends with "isogyny", but it's a very stupid take even in its own framework

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[–] Rezurektme@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welp. Seems I've already failed at life. Can't go any lower than that. Guess I'll just go live how I want now.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (7 children)

My female friend had a female doctor try to talk her out of a contraceptives prescription; that she was 28 and should be having babies...

It's not a misogyny thing, per se, rather just people that define their lives by the templates supplied by societal stereotypes. Never take advice from a person that doesn't think for themself.

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[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget Noether! She discovered one of the most fundamental theorems of the universe: (paraphrasing) there is a 1:1 relationship between a conservation law (eg momentum) and symmetry (eg spacetime). This has shaped a lot of modern physics and helped explain otherwise unexplainable phenomena!

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I try hard to put myself into other people's shoes but I find it impossible to imagine being as fuckin' stupid as this.

Edit: I wonder if he applies the same logic to men. He looks over 24 to me.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nah, he thinks men peak in their 40s and should be the ones hooking up with those 24-year-olds.

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