FtttG
User ID: 1175
Thanks for the link, this was morbidly fascinating. All that looksmaxxing wasn't for naught: he is a fairly handsome dude. I would've thought being that handsome was incompatible with being a lolcow, but apparently not.
Freddie deBoer advanced the theory that Clavicular might be a profoundly closeted gay man, and nothing in that thread contradicts that theory. It's almost like he's so in denial about his sexuality that he's decided to perform an exaggerated parody of what he thinks a macho man behaves like (casually racist, drives a big stupid truck for no reason, says appalling things to and about women, drinks too much, reacts violently to perceived slights etc.). It's sad. I hope he gets out of the streaming game and finds something more fulfilling to do with his time.
I'm really sick of you trying to make me (and other gender-critical people) sound ridiculous and/or perverted by characterising my opinion as "discrimination on the basis of genitals" or similar. "Sex" is not reducible to genitals. Male bodies are not just female bodies which incidentally happen to have penises bolted on. Even trans-identified males who have undergone bottom surgery retain male patterns of violent crime.
"FtttG thinks sex-segregation is reasonable in certain contexts" is a perfectly acceptable gloss of my opinion on this matter which I wouldn't object to. "FtttG thinks he's entitled to know about the genitals of complete strangers, but refuses to tell us why!!" is both a flat lie (I have been more than willing to articulate my reasoning) and a transparent effort to imply that anyone who isn't maximally trans-affirming is a sexual deviant. It's cheap, obnoxious and contemptible behaviour. Knock it off.
FtttG
6hr ago
This strikes me as a bit of a weaselly definition. The Catholic Church is institutionally opposed to abortion, homosexuality and divorce. Women cannot be ordained as priests. People have been characterised as "far-right" for much less.
How many priests are Right Wing Icons?
John Paul II, for one.
FtttG
6hr ago
I think I'm gesturing off in the direction of "right wingers tend not to elevate rapists and pedos as leaders, and are certainly NOT prone to censoring or rewriting history to cover up such traits in their leaders."
Have you heard of this little organisation called the Catholic Church?
FtttG
11hr ago
What fucking guy is the unlikely combination of hot enough to get a woman to go on a date with him, romantically frustrated enough to engage in Man-o-Sphere content, AND clueless enough to talk judgy redpill lingo about bodycount and hypergamy to the woman he's on a date with?
You rang?
I jest: I've never watched any manosphere or Andrew Tate content, much less paid for it. But back when I was single, I believe I went on dates with girls in which I would bring up adjacent concepts like hypergamy or sexual market value. I think for some of them it scanned as so outrageous as to make me seem daring and iconoclastic, and hence more attractive.
FtttG
12hr ago
Thanks, I'll check this out this evening. KiwiFarms is blocked on my work's WiFi, lol.
I'd heard the name Clavicular mentioned before, but this comment prompted me to read his Wikipedia article. Obviously Wikipedia is a profoundly biased source with every incentive to make him sound as bad as possible, but if half of the content of this article is true, good Lord is this one dysfunctional individual. He started shooting himself up with testosterone at the age of 14, which he has so thoroughly abused as to render himself infertile at the age of 20? He takes crystal meth to suppress his appetite so as not to gain weight? Jesus Christ. Further evidence for the theory that people who devote their lives to streaming every waking minute are fundamentally unhealthy people. No healthy person would choose to live their life in such a way. I genuinely regret reading that article, it legitimately made me feel depressed. What would possess someone to do this to themselves?
I also notice a weird cultural symmetry in his apparent endorsement of taking testosterone to the point of infertility. Is this really the choice facing Gen Z boys?
When I talk about "wokeness", I'm referring to a worldview and set of tactics as described in, for example, Freddie deBoer's canonical article on the topic:
- Explicit endorsement of standpoint epistemology.
- Social destruction for petty ideological infractions, resulting in circular firing squads.
- Ideological infractions couched in abstruse vocabulary impenetrable to those not in the know.
- A fundamental failure to understand the is-ought distinction.
- A worldview which, taken to its logical conclusions, implies that "everything is problematic" and "almost everyone you encounter in contemporary society is a bad person".
- A fatalistic belief that the problems facing our society are so deeply entrenched as to be essentially impervious to resolution or amelioration: political Calvinism.
- A corollary to the previous point is that woke people react with hostility to the suggestion that certain of their pet issues have been meaningfully improved or ameliorated.
- An obsessive fixation on linguistic minutiae ("people experiencing unhousedness" vs. "homeless people") over issues of material, practical significance.
I am not referring to the existence of male people who wear women's clothes, or people who live in small towns who dress in a peculiar fashion and listen to Bladee.
I think when most people express a sentiment like "wokeness is dead", they mean that the ideas and tactics associated with the woke memeplex have much less cachet and influence than they did at their peak (2014-2022). I don't think they mean "no one wears cross-sex clothes anymore". A minority of people have been wearing cross-sex clothing for centuries before the word "woke" was even coined. So I truthfully don't understand the connection between the statements "wokeness isn't dead – here are a bunch of people who dress oddly". They seem completely uncorrelated to me. I'd even hazard a guess that plenty of these so-called "dinergoths" are not meaningfully "woke" in an ideological sense.
FtttG
1d ago
This comes just one day after Clavicular's recent clip with Leela Saraswat went viral.
As an aside: wow, she is gorgeous.
FtttG
1d ago
I'm not even making fun of you, I'm just amazed that you even attempted it without. I think I physically could not run more than 10 km (~6.2 miles) without drinking a lot of water. If I tried running a half-marathon without water I'm sure I'd just collapse.
FtttG
1d ago
I don't sweat nearly as much during strength training as I do during cardio, but I still get very thirsty very quickly.
FtttG
1d ago
So more than a half-marathon? And you used to run that without drinking any water on the way?
FtttG
1d ago
How long was your run on Saturday?
My water bottle is 750-1000ml and I will always refill it at least once during a gym session, even if I'm only doing strength training and no cardio. I can't even imagine trying to exercise without drinking lots of water.
FtttG
1d ago
For what it's worth, I agree that characterising a man who only sees you as a fuckbuddy as "emotionally avoidant" could be a very effective cope to avoid confronting that he's just not that into you. But just because a term is misused doesn't mean that its real meaning is vacuous. Some people even characterise themselves as emotionally avoidant.
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my seventh blog post of the year on Sunday, about attachment styles and infant mortality. Cross-posted here.
- Went to the gym twice last week. After writing the aforementioned blog post, I changed into my gym gear and was about to leave for the gym when my girlfriend pointed out that it closes at 7:30 on Sundays. Aghast: last week was the first week of the year I didn't go to the gym at least three times. To compensate, I'm going to go four times this week (and it must be this week: I'm not going to kick the can down the round indefinitely). Can deadlift 1.8x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.03x for 5 reps and bench press .85x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
- Have completed 10/11 modules in the SQL course. Planning to do the eleventh today.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star and @Tollund_Man4?
I'm about halfway through recording myself reading my novel aloud, listening back to it and line-editing. Using this method, I have already cut out about 3.5k words.
FtttG
1d ago
A few years ago I read A Hero of Our Time in English, now I'm curious which translation it was.
FtttG
2d ago
I think most self-identified Irish Catholics literally wouldn't know what purgatory was, nor that it had been abolished.
FtttG
3d ago
Curiously, although the authors of Attached acknowledge that men are more likely to be avoidant and women more likely to be anxious, they point out that cross-sex examples aren't hard to come by, and even go so far as to diagnose the title character of (500) Days of Summer as avoidant.
FtttG
3d ago
No, corruption is the idea that your personal goals are so important that you're willing to break the law to accomplish them.
I think this is an overly expansive definition.
FtttG
3d ago
I question your characterisation of Kaczynski as an environmentalist. I don't recall him mentioning climate change or acid rain even once in his manifesto. He was opposed to modernity primarily for what he saw as its deleterious effects on the human psyche, not for its impact on the environment.
I finished Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True during the week. It was pretty good, and I really did get the impression it had been gestating within the author for a long time. It concerns events which happened in the late 90s, but was only published in 2022. I really did feel like Hsu has been writing about these events in private journals for decades, trying to process his feelings.
Reading Lying for Money for the third time. One of the most entertaining non-fiction books I've ever read, I just cannot get enough of it.
Well, I explicitly said "When I talk about "wokeness...". I'm aware that other people use the word in a different way, sometimes in a manner indistinguishable from how their parents would derisively call things "liberal". But I think my usage is closer to the standard usage than that one.
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