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  Cattress ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2022 @ 05:13pm

  I'm not arguing against anything you said, but I think it's important to note that guns haven't just been to fight the tyranny of England and their taxes. They were also critical to the abolition and civil rights movements. When Black people defended themselves and families, when they fought for their rights, they used guns. Civil rights protests were never as peaceful as they are remembered. (Shit, the Boston Tea Party was essentially a riot, but republicans cry over chalk writing and broken windows) The state of race relations as they currently stand, and the police being racist, violent, corrupt, inept, I worry about the risk of going from the random (and abhorrent) shootings to organized, even state sanctioned violence. We need to tread carefully, thoughtfully, and yes, quickly too.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2022 @ 04:45pm

  Out of curiosity, who do you think will enforce gun bans, red flag laws? When "buy-back" plans inevitably fail to collect a substantial number of guns? And who do you think enforcement will be targeted at first? I'll give you a hint, the exact same folks that gun control laws were initially created to target. The same people who are subjected to disproportionate levels of enforcement for every crime. There are no easy answers here, I'm not trying to trash anyone's ideas. Let's just not be naive and foolish, we must explore the ugly and very likely unintended consequences. Our entire police apparatus stems from rich white people who wanted their slaves back, and rich white people who didn't want workers unionizing lest they might have to afford them some human dignity. The hate is exactly what I'm talking about. There are way too many people who believe that reverse racism is not just a thing, but as bad or worse than actual (and not fucking imaginary) real racism. There are too many nutjobs who think the replacement theory is real, that have fed into Q, who still think the election was stolen by communist Democrats! And those people are by and large gun owners. They are cops and elected politicians. They are in our military. They have money and resources. They blame everything but the guns and their fundamental hate. Considering their behavior during the pandemic it's clear that they do not believe rules apply to them. And prohibition of things never, ever, has worked. It has always resulted in more violence, death, profiteering and thus power to cartels, and industries of human suffering like prisons. Cops kill people who let them know they have a gun to avoid getting shot. How do you think they will handle orders to seize the guns of a supposedly, but unverified, dangerous person? Duncan Lemp, who is white, check out his story. Surprise, he has an infant son that never got a chance to meet him. Christ, the hate is exactly what I was talking about.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2022 @ 07:18am

  Well, I don't know if it's always wrong to assign some culpability to parents, considering the Crumbley case, the child given a handgun for an early Christmas present by parents aware of his disturbed mental state. That's a case that I see falls rather significantly on the parents. The killer in Sandy Hook, parents completely failed him growing up, neglected his disorders for years to the point he was so reclusive that he only communicated with his mother, who he lived with by text; I don't want to blame the victim, he did take the parents gun and kill her (the dad divorced or left the home years prior) before his rampage, but she knew how dire his mental state was and planned moving regardless of how it would impact him. Certainly didn't bother to sell or store the rifles off the property. I think Virginia Tech killer had some religious fundamentalist type of upbringing, and tried to push more church over actual psychological treatment for his problems. (And despite a period of involuntary commitment due to his threatening behavior, nothing was reported to the NICS system to prevent legal purchase of the guns). Things like absentee fathers/broken homes are associated with poverty, which increases the risk of violence is a worthy discussion when looking at reducing violence in a broad context. But those factors don't really show causation when considering mass shootings. I think we gotta dig into what we know about all mass killers to find patterns. We talk about background checks all the time, but most killers got their guns legally. So there's more avenues to explore.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2022 @ 04:48pm

  I would love to know exactly what "values" were being taught in schools when he was growing up, or really damn near the time I grew up since Columbine happened my senior year, that aren't being taught today. I know I was taught a thoroughly whitewashed version of history, and was one of the first girls to participate in stage crew (which was unofficially a boys club since it involved tools and lifting and building shit) and we constantly harassed with accusations of being lesbians or sluts (or some how both). I can't help but think there's a good possibility that the kind of values he's talking about are ones of segregation, ones that turned a blind eye racially motivated murder. To control and stifling of women, where rape is really just boys being boys. Of course I am pretty sure that he was raised with anti-soviet values, ones that would be counter to his pro-Russia stance. This jackass doesn't know the meaning of the words coming out of his mouth. I don't know how Wisconsin looks itself in the mirror knowing they sent that moron to the Senate.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2022 @ 04:26pm

  True. But you also can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. This country is not going to disarm voluntarily, and trying to do it would be bloody genocide. Black communities would be targeted first, there's no way to convince me otherwise (because how quickly is the finger pointed at Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, cities, black on black crime whenever white guys and cops kill black people?) When the black people are disarmed, the remaining survivors will be at the mercy of the whites who will ultimately roll back those restrictions for "grandfathered" guns. Liberals will foolishly give up their guns voluntarily, because they want to do the right thing, and then they will lose all political power because the conservatives with guns will run the polling places and government how they see fit, by force. Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if that's not the ultimate plan. Let white boys terrorize the people until society says enough and bans guns. But conservatives will never actually comply, and already heavily armed, present a resistance the cops won't have any interest in trying to force. Don't get me wrong, access to guns is a significant part of the problem. But I think Canada is foolish for attempting to disarm themselves when they live next door to the US and there's a dangerous amount of support lingering for a lunatic like Trump.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2022 @ 03:42pm

  I could be mistaken, but I thought assault rifle was essentially a rifle capable of fully automatic (as in one pull of trigger will fire bullets until trigger released), like the selective fire weapons our military carries, and there are a ton of federal restrictions on obtaining one. But an assault weapon is technically not a thing, it's just a regular semi automatic rifle with a few modifications or features like pistol grip, folding stock, flash muzzle ect, basically fairly arbitrary features that don't actually make it more deadly, just more user friendly (user friendly is not a term that I would have ever thought could apply to guns lol). I agree that if you want to have a serious discussion that you need to know what you are talking about, especially the terminology. I can't even describe how utterly infuriating it is to hear people try to discuss abortion who don't know what they're talking about (partial birth abortion is just as misunderstood as "silencers" are, and both evoke high emotions). Since my tween years I've been highly interested in women's issues so I'm well informed. But I was born and raised in Delaware, which I think has the lowest gun ownership rate in the country, and I had zero exposure to guns until I met my husband. He was born and raised in Alaska, which has the highest rate of gun ownership (and for very utilitarian reasons, starting with bears!) I would ask him but guns (& abortion) are sore subjects at the moment.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 31 May, 2022 @ 03:31pm

  I have to read this survey. I can only assume that the phrase "net neutrality" isn't used but it's most important components are described. Republicans love to poison a phrase they don't understand and then ignorantly use it to mislead people into voting for things that hurt themselves (so long as they think it hurts those other people a little bit more).

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  Cattress ( profile ), 31 May, 2022 @ 02:59pm

  Rather revealing. You do realize that you are just recycling homophobic talking points against the "gay agenda" and applying them to the trans community, while adding a dose of ableism and science denial? The whole 'we don't care what they do behind closed doors so long as we don't have to see it', or 'gross, I don't want to see them holding hands or kissing in public! (clutching pearls) how do I explain that to my children?!!', the don't ask don't tell policy. Ridiculous fears that some how kids could be turned gay by teachers, scout leaders, gay or politically correct liberal parents. Fears that the gay community is predisposed or even a cover for pedophilia. Or gays will sexually harass straight people and try to spy on them in the bathroom. Do you see the correlation here? Homosexuality was a certified mental illness with a long record of inhumane and damaging "treatments", which were also used on people who openly admitted to being trans as well as anyone who did not comport with society's gender rules (like effeminate men and women who wore pants). Frankly, science and medicine comported with your gender ideology for far too long and was not just an abysmal failure, but atrocious and antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. While gender dysphoria is still a diagnosis, it doesn't necessarily apply to all Trans people, and the current treatment is something they choose to undertake at the pace and to the degree that they choose, informed and guided by the latest research and professionals from different medical disciplines. People are getting ethical care, with their dignity in tact, and overall gaining better mental health. You complain about the "craziness" being imposed on others, in this free society. Ever consider it's your incredibly narrow ideas of "normal", dictated by people whose entire goal has been to control society in order to preserve their own power, that's being imposed on us "crazies"? That would be the historically accurate account of society. Accusations of mental illness and moral turpitude have been the go to strategy every time a minority or misunderstood group challenges the social power structure. Of course, you don't care about women, so you probably are totally ignorant to the history I'm talking about, but it encompasses many issues of today including abortion.i don't remember if you mentioned Buck V Bell or someone else did, but it's a perfect example of powerful people inflicting their idea of normal & morally superior ideas on women who came from certain backgrounds such as poverty or Catholicism, or suffered from a medical condition like depression or epilepsy, who were poc or consorted with poc voluntarily, who were or perceived if easy virtue, who drank and danced, were unmarried or with no family, or just pissed off a man with power. It's not that your personal opinion matters on an individual basis, it's that you favor politicians who think likewise and can use the power of government to hurt and suppress the disfavored groups. Even if you aren't a voter, by signaling that certain people are getting something they don't deserve or at the your and the people like you, personal expense, or that they pose a threat to the safety of women and children, a threat to the moral fabric of the nation, that they are criminal or deranged, you create and support hostility which is conducive to violence. You signal that violence against the disfavored group is deserved, will go unpunished, or even a moral, sanctioned act in the eyes of God.(you needn't believe in any god for others assume you are aligned spiritually. None of the hate is sanctioned by God, people just manipulate scripture to justify bad things to control the masses). And with no sarcasm, I hope you never become gravely ill. Because if you think medicine and science are so morally bankrupt that they intentionally inflict harm and reject evidence in favor of ideology that is the complete opposite of the past, then I can't imagine how you could possibly feel safe getting care, or confident it would work. To believe that politics have corrupted science to thoroughly would mean that you might be targeted not to survive, or that studies showing effectiveness of a drug or procedure are at minimum faulty. Perhaps there is more radical environmentalist using the woke agenda and undermining proper sanitation, like single-use disposable items. There is quite a rabbit hole of possibilities if you buy one conspiracy theory that you might as well consider.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 30 May, 2022 @ 12:36am

  What's wrong with this country, that we don't teach our girls self-defense? The patriarchy. Can't have the girls getting all that book learning, speaking up for themselves, making decisions for themselves and then overtaking men on the final frontier of physical dominance! Do you remember the mockery coming from the right when the military introduced maternity uniforms? Like pregnant women weren't already serving and we were suddenly introducing a weakness to our forces to serve a 'woke' agenda. It's all about keeping the current social power structure and order. Female warriors have been memory-holed. As have a significant amount of contributions to society from women, poc, and other minority groups.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 11:36pm

  I think women flashing or kitty pics are just more difficult in a practical sense. If I pull my pants down, all that's visible is bush (I prune what's needed to wear a swimsuit, but I gave up all that hair removal business in my 20s when I discovered it did nothing to enhance my pleasure, quite the opposite). I'd have to get my pants off and contort myself to kinda show actual muff. And snapping a snapper selfie, in addition to the contortion, you gotta worry about getting some decent lighting to see the bits; you need a selfie stick or stand with remote to actually take the picture, which is going to be tough to see while also spreading and bending while staying in the good light. And while there is great, beautiful variation across the female anatomy, I just don't think it presents the same "personality" as the uh, worm. Maybe it's the ability of independent movement that gives a sense of liveliness to men parts, but women's parts, again still beautiful, look more like a pile of drapes. Not bad, just different. I guess mooning is a practical option, but it just doesn't feel right for that situation. Mooning is more for offending the uptight, and comical purposes. I don't really need to complicate the already complex relationship I (and likewise many other women) have with my breasts by adding a new dimension of flashing a stranger. Me and the girls have been through a lot together, some douchebag trying to upset me doesn't deserve a lookie-loo. I'm not sure that mocking a flasher is guaranteed to end with the flasher retreating. They have already demonstrated they are deranged by flashing, a violent outburst isn't beyond the pale. For anyone who isn't trained or experienced in self defense, like me, is best to give minimal reaction and get away. I have put myself at risk a number of times shooting my mouth off and I don't think I should push my luck. I have received a few unsolicited dick pics and my reaction has been immediately cutting communication. I'm no prude, and that is aggressive and presumptive in all the wrong ways.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 11:34pm

  Plane crashes are not analogous of this situation. Frankly, the idea of bringing up a subject like prison rape and focusing on that one time it was supposedly committed by a trans woman, when the only predators in women's and a statistically notable amount in men's prisons are fucking employed by the institution, and paid with our tax dollars, is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard and makes it impossible to take you seriously. Don't pretend that you give a fuck about women and then point to an imaginary boogie man when a real pack of wolves is attacking in plain sight. You are the gender ideologue, not me. You are the one demanding that sex specific segregation be strictly adhered to for no reason other than tradition, and regardless of how it harms already marginalized people. You want to go around and attack the dignity of people who have zero impact on your life or that of your loved ones, and to do so with impunity. You are the one refusing to believe any research that doesn't comport with your opinion, and declaring with zero evidence that essentially the only reason you don't have evidence to support your view is that it's being suppressed; that all of the scientific and medical community are completely unethical and/or compromised by Democrats (and shit, Soros is really to blame amiright? You still can't explain what society stands to gain by rescinding acceptance of trans people denying their dignity by imposing your gender ideology on them.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 10:46pm

  I hate to go to the 'but the children' trope, but I think it's less cut and dry than you're making it. When I was 13, I was babysitting my 7 yr old neighbor girl, and we were down at the creek, where we had spent countless hours as one of the last generations that really played outside, when some dude walked out of the bushes wearing nothing but a baseball hat and high top sneakers. He was probably in his mid twenties. We were on a sandbar (rocks actually, that were always accessible unless of flood conditions) and could not easily cross to the other side of the woods because the water was a few feet deep and home to lampreys and snapping turtles, and he was essentially blocking the exit back onto the path into the woods. I don't remember feeling scared exactly, more shocked and a bit panicked that I didn't have a sufficient way to protect the little girl, my friend. This was in 94, the video for Soul Asylum Run Away Train haunted me and crime was high. Fortunately this dude probably did only want to shock us, and after I finally found my voice to tell my little friend that it was time for us to leave, he wondered away from the path's entrance. Neither of us was particularly innocent to the sight of a penis, and perhaps that's why neither of us was scarred for life, but it was still shocking. And I don't think that sort of situation, or anyone in situation where they are generally secluded from other people, that it would be a good idea to flash beaver or do anything aggressive or provocative. In general though, I agree we are too uptight over sex & nudity. That doesn't mean I know exactly how to instill healthier values and attitudes with my daughter, but I have read a little about different European approaches. She's still little and a somewhat delayed, so ownership over her own body is all I'm worried about for now.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 11:35am

  Nudity in most of Western Europe is not taboo the way that it is in the US. They have healthier attitudes and social norms around sex and nudity than the regressive US. So the movie you are talking about might be an accurate depiction of the French, but not the US. It would be interesting to know how the issue is being approached where nudity and sexuality are more socially acceptable. Yes, I've heard about the men's locker rooms being a comfort zone for nudity. I would still speculate that trans men are more likely to maintain some privacy to avoid potentially dangerous interaction, and may not have fully shed the "modesty" drilled into him as a female child. That said, you are drawing an unfounded connection between trans women and sexual deviancy. Do you think trans women are sending unsolicited dick pics of the very genitalia that they feel betrays their true self? Does a trans woman present a statistical probability greater than cis woman to be a voyeur or sexual predator? Does the danger, in your opinion, lessen with those on hormone therapy, or bottom surgery? Where is this presumption of danger, or at minimum, the likelihood of inappropriate/offensive behavior come from? As a cis woman, I don't see the risk to myself or my daughter increased by trans women sharing these otherwise segregated spaces, and I am way more over protective of my daughter than I'd like to admit.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 25 May, 2022 @ 12:30am

  Something like 25% of Americans (around 2/3rd of republicans) still think Trump won the election, and uh, Jan 6. These are the direct result of misinformation. And my uncle, yeah the casually racist one, who I would not ever agree with on most any subject but I did think that had solid common sense, landed himself in the hospital for 3 months with COVID-19, and hopes to be off the oxygen tank and walking again by summer (a man that was still working 50 hours a week even though he technically retired). Because he believed all the lies and misinformation about vaccines and masks, at 67 years old, he nearly killed himself. There are real consequences to that shit spreading, ones that hurt users and workers at these Tech companies alike. Stop whining that the bare minimum was done to slow/reduce that harm and calling it political.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 24 May, 2022 @ 10:24pm

  I'm a cis woman. Discomfort (insert any more appropriately descriptive word such as embarrassment, shame, fear, unexpected arousal for discomfort) in seeing another person naked, or them me, has nothing to do with the sex, sexual orientation or gender expression of the other person. It's all about context. Where and what circumstances did this likely unintended incident occur. Nobody, at least in the women's bathroom, is getting naked, and all nudity associated with using the toilet occurs behind stall doors. In most all locker room/shower set ups, very, very few women get openly and freely undressed- maybe it's modesty, but I'm betting on it's our own self consciousness & shame about our body's appearance; and there is general expectation and applied practice of looking at the floor. Of course I don't think anyone should feel ashamed of their body, but it is what it is. I can only imagine that trans women have the same body hang ups, if not more so, and they patiently wait for a curtained changing area to open up while staring at the floor like the rest of us. It never looks like the opening to the movie Carrie, that's a ridiculous fantasy from a fictional story.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 24 May, 2022 @ 09:41pm

  Wow. That was brazenly bigoted & dehumanizing in countless ways. That's the kind of thing that makes me think your parents didn't love you and didn't hide it.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 23 May, 2022 @ 12:04am

  Yeah I don't get this either. Should I also be afraid of lesbians sharing the bathroom with me? I mean, if I could be so picky about who I share a public restroom with, I mostly just want people who put their rear firmly on the seat instead of hovering and peeing/dripping on the seat. Men who lift and lower the seat after peeing is fine by me. And people who always flush, and don't get water all over the counter when washing their hands. For all the rapey men these paranoid people think are lurking everywhere, they are not very concerned about their little boys.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 22 May, 2022 @ 11:32pm

  Christ, gender and sex are not the same. Sex is biology, the reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones. Gender is the social construct, subject to change with time and variation across different societies. One can be masculine without being male. While masculine and feminine correspond with male and female, masculine and feminine are not not fixed concepts. And many, if not most people express themselves as a blend of both. You are the one demanding that trans people dress as their biological sex or identify themselves so that you can regulate their actions in public. What do I care if a trans women pees in the stall next to me? How would I even know? She just wants to pee in peace too. You do realize that you can't necessarily point out trans folks in a crowd, right? She's no threat to me or my daughter any more than any other stranger. But she is at increased danger by entering the men's bathroom, and sometimes I think that's exactly what some of you transphobes want. No one would know either way if the lady entering the women's bathroom was a masculine (or menopausal) woman or a trans woman. Maybe it's not entirely transphobia, but an entitled sense of curiosity that some sexually repressed conservatives are looking for an opportunity to explore. You don't see her as human, deserving of rights to be safe and act with autonomy (because women shouldn't really have autonomy in the conservative opinion), so her wellbeing doesn't matter. You didn't answer my question. What does society stand to gain by retracting the little dignity afforded to trans people? You decided that psychology is just politics, like you know something about it. But I'm talking about psychiatry, that's a medical field. Either way, you haven't offered any kind of care or treatment for trans people that isn't designed to drive them to suicide and has the proven success of gender affirming care. You think kids should be outed to their parents, regardless of what is in the kids best interest, but don't think the kid should have access to the care that parents and doctors and the kid feel is best if it means beginning to transition. I mean, do you think that trans people should be denied existence, like they are a myth, some strange psycho-social phenomenon that will disappear if we ignore it? If you can't come up with a reason that society benefits by rescinding support of the trans community, can you give a reason you benefit from this? You keep talking about gender ideologue boogie man out for blood. But I am 1000% sure that it has always been at the risk of imprisonment, life threatening violence and death for anyone to violate the social norms regarding sex and gender. In the USA we arrested women just for wearing pants. Trans women of color face a harrowing amount of violence and murder including here in America, though it's not exactly (openly) state sanctioned. People have little respect for men who pursue nursing careers, and are suspicious of men who want to work with little kids. What are the gender ideologue doing to you, er the conservatives, er the transphobes? Reporting you to Twitter? Outing your hateful rhetoric to those who don't want to be associated with it? Where's that tiny little violin I had....

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  Cattress ( profile ), 22 May, 2022 @ 08:43pm

  I'm not sure what point you think you are making here, but let me set you straight. The patriarchy is every bit as damaging to men as it is women. And it is perpetuated by men and women alike. As a feminist, one point that there is monolithic agreement is that women's rights are human rights. We love our husbands, sons, brothers, fathers; attacking their genitals as some kind of tit for tat is wrong. Masculinity is not inherently toxic or bad. Women can and do perpetrate evil, and sexual orientation does not exempt people from violent actions. Several especially violent serial killers were homosexuals who preyed on men. The idea of forcing such a drastic, violent action on men as some sort of cure for social ills is grounds for violent self defense and I would absolutely stand up to protect men, regardless of whether I could expect the same from all of them. I want to live in a society with less brutality, not more evenly distributed brutality. The patriarchy, the incumbents of the current power structure are not happy that society is changing, and they won't take it lying down. That's why we hear bullshit like the replacement theory, and all the crying about discussing race, gender, and sex in school, and the utter garbage that is the prolife movement. Call me a radical feminist if you want, but don't think that some how makes me a misandrist, or that misandry is a real thing (outside of maybe 50 women worldwide). This idea of forced castration, or vasectomy (although I do appreciate the lawmakers point, I don't agree with actually doing that) is no different than whoever the troll somewhere up the thread was saying shooters should be shot. Sure some times I feel very angry and a bit of a bloodlust boils up inside of me. But violence begets violence, always.

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  Cattress ( profile ), 21 May, 2022 @ 03:55pm

  Yeah because gun regulations are enforced in a racially neutral manner. You do understand that gun control laws were created to prevent black people from owning and protecting themselves with guns. And even gun laws that aren't designed to target black people are always disproportionately used against them. From sentencing enhancement, more police encounters which means more violence at the hands of police. Enacting the laws in minority majority areas with high poverty concentration, instead of addressing the poverty that is inextricably linked to violence. The root of the problem isn't the guns, it's the hate, the fear, the racism and misogyny. It's the patriarchy's death grip on society that tells men not to talk about their feelings, and who to blame for their problems.

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