nah, i'll show mercy & let it slide a few times but i aint consciously running from no one, not on purpose.
Cause that just empowers her to think she can abuse anyone else. Part of your job as the man is checking the women, women are boundary testers. People in general test the other, but your woman will test you instinctively, it's a survival mechanism to trial the kind of mate you are, to see your reactions. And if your reaction is running, you're low quality.
American men being scared stiff of their women, or resenting them & not checking them properly is why the women don't respect youse as is. Run from women, run from your kids, run run run.
There's a way to handle it, stay on business, or you have no business dealing with women. And to be honest? If she's that comfortable to where it gets to that point, she didn't respect you to begin with.
But LTG is half right btw, you look less predatory if she initiates but she can still lie 9:02 exactly my point, so it doesn't matter, because context is an option not a reality in these situations, thus it's all a risk---- IF you're dealing with a child and not a woman to begin with.
While instability has no age, a lot of this boils down to men messing with these young, immaturely undeveloped males & females: you don't get these kinds of issues as much with older, mature women with emotional mileage, know what they want, will speak up without shouting and secure.
if its a risk, then you need to change the demographic you dating from. deadass
While some women still subscribe to the soft feminine model- alot of women in general don't want to be "soft" because soft in the minds of some women means vulnerable or dependent. We need to accept that women have been conditioned to be harder than necessary and meet them where they are now; hold them accountable 100% (I do it all the time) but not shame them for what they've been groomed to be in the first place.
I agree that the statue was one unsubtle diss to BW, it really is the modern mammy stereotype. And notice how the guy who made the statues majority of the statues body language is agitated & unwelcoming, ZERO approachability. Liberal white ppl will praise it now, but wouldn't befriend or hang out with any BW that looked that unappealing in just the body language.
Otherwise, redirecting back--- Fact is femininity is not soft, it's a more subtle force, & it's unifying just as masculinity is. Women are the hearts of the community, regardless of race, that's a human species constant- women & children are what unifies community.
Women as vessels of life, are symbols of hope. People need to project that narrative & perpetuate that reality more than just "soft" femininity.
_Women will be less likely to be intimidated or rightfully turned off by a implication of softness, which for a lot of men just means a woman that's non-threatening. Let's just put that out there._
Many BW are protecting status quo, yes, I stand by that. Agreed.
But not all of this is white supremacy boogeyman; Asian, white, black, Indian, women are women.
We need to look at what exactly it is we're saying to describe femininity & ask ourselves is "softness" flattering in any way as the world is now? Vs what we want it to be in fantasies or how things were.
More importantly is it accurate to even describe femininity as soft vs an emotionally unifying force that drives society's social progress (for better & worse) or is it just comforting to say "soft" from the male perspective.
We really need to slow down before we go pathologizing how women react to things & put yourself in their situation.
As for the specific no-named person that attacked the book, yeah they likely got turned off by the cover itself; that much Shawn is correct on.
If it was action driven comic or more pop culturally relevant or had an animated trailer- there'd be a wider window to reach the audience, because people as a whole like COOL shit- if Isis had like a Youtube exclusive trailer that looked anime or Boondocks inspired or John Haynes trailer fighting some villain or something, or hiring someone to ANIMATE a fight from the book: That would boost retention & reach people.
The marketing of these books of Shawn's really needs to evolve as well.
The vast ratio of blks that actually read like that isn't even over 50%, well below, so the medium itself is a turn off to most blacks to begin with & yet that group is exactly who Shawn is trying to reach. Self-defeating because formula & format and the target demographics aren't clicking.
That also factors into a reaction like that persons.
Excellent fight as usual. Carnage symbiote seemed fragile at times, but for the sake of the fight I get it. You otherwise presents its tenacity accurately, especially the spidersense & camo (which I forgot he could do) 3:33 having him use the tether to pull back to evade was genius, little stuff like that is keeps me on this channel.
The best parts about your scripts is the situations where opponents learn info on weakness is reliant on context clues that happen naturally, love that. No exposition dump, no internal Shonen Jump esque monologue aka RUINING THE FIGHTs momentum
The smallest shit that most ppl dont do in their matchups.
Rhodeys constant repulsor bursts to move faster(which Xmen 97 cyclops did with his optics)✅️✅️✅️๐love that. I wish MCU Tony & Rhodes leaned into the repulsors to slide around more, beyond using it to twirl in the air like a leaf in the wind lol.
Im surprised Carnage didn't use biomass bullets or using micro-particles to invade the suit. (tho symbiote residue from that impalement can theoretically infect him as well)
Overall Warmachine was beyond tough as grits & godly lucky that hardware was up to the task. 0:56 the pieces shifting in repair mode is so goddamn cool๐ง๐ช another little detail.
He could've just had the HUD say >repair mode, instead he went through the trouble to say it AND show it by animating the components moving around, & it looks convincing. ๐ทMCU outplayed with their own character by some FanVS engineer.
"I don’t think they're trying to make strong female characters. I think they're trying to make emasculating female characters. Making them masculine and overpowered is the least subtle, most obnoxious way to do that. So of course they're gonna." -@jeffjones7108
Agreed, been said this.
The preconception is that these characters are made for women & girls but they're made in spite of women & girls. A true strong female character is not strong, she's well written & thus emulates strength on feminine terms, feminine traits (tomboy or girly) aren't "soft" they're more subtle, thus not weak, simply the other side of the coin to masculinity.
A true well written female character unifies both sexes, this is why Spider-Man, Batman, Superman aren't for men. They're for everyone.
Fact is, there's no good will in surrounding strong women with weak men and or the common theme of a strong modern woman is being a parody of a man.
One hand it's conspiracy to claim that it's on purpose, but what does it say that peoples definition of a strong woman is she exists in the vacuum of equally competent men, no challenge. What exactly is the conspiracy when it's this consistent & backhanded to women anyway that they're only strong when she has no competition?
You could just write a stable woman that isn't girly, which is a tomboy and is completely valid & different from this "Strong woman" gag. But they're not doing that are they? It's not about development, it's about message.
It's not about freedom or fluidity of roles, modern voices that hates patriarchy believes in roles 100% & love rigidity more than anyone, it just has to be on their terms aka "Modern Strong Woman Archetype", the new rigidity, matriarchal supremacy. That's the accepted rigidity.
Elizabeth Comstock wasn't like this, Sarah Conner wasn't this, Katara wasn't this, Toph wasn't this, XJ9 wasn't this, Starfire & Raven weren't this, Kim Possible, Sandy Cheeks, Marlene Angel, Lois Lane, Cassandra Cain, Balsa Yonsa, Wonder Woman, Mira (PRIMAL) etc.
Decently written characters (girly & tomboy or a combination alike aka reality) aren't written to be parodies of men to be strong, thus not masculinized to dethrone a man or a boy's place in the story.
๐จWhich is the 2nd function of the archetype after mocking women = rendering men irrelevant to the woman, thus he has no stake, which is parallel to the disconnect of sowing resentment in women in realtime, it's all an operation to keep a division between men and women.
If it was conspiracy bullshit, your birthrates would prove me wrong. They can't because the op is working. If it was conspiracy bullshit? Why does this archetype tend to be surrounded by weak males likely to emphasize the illusion of her competence? Why is lessening of the male necessary to inflate her importance? That's literally the same shit Macrocreeps do in their fetish cult: And if thats the kind of abusive culture they're raised in, I 1000% see why they got infected with such a r#tarded fetish.
It's a manifestation of the Modern Strong Woman Archetype of a Woman that's simply an out of control, miserable parody of a dysfunctional male- that has to loom, destroy & sow misery because for women to be strong the men need to be handicapped, women need a crutch to compete or excel.
Spoiler alert: WOMEN DO NOT NEED A CRUTCH.
And Femininity for all of history-- didn't need to hijack masculinity to be a strength. Macrophilia is misogyny cosplaying as empowerment and so is the archetype & gynocentric "ally"/"empowerment" society that birthed it.
Katara is well written & a likable, reasonably relatable character (for everyone) for a reason despite how overbearing she is; she is flawed and an emotionally fortified powerhouse, a warrior.
She's written to be like an actual person because (again) she's held accountable when she's out of control by the boys and girls, and she isn't left behind in power scaling so the boys shine brighter (My Hero Academia):
She doesn't emasculate the boys around her so her agency isn't threatened (#Fragility). Katara is a realistic balance that reflects how a young woman is realized.
In contrast, even when the Strong independent woman archetype is a feminine character, they're the most overbearing, disrespectful, snarky, miserable person. (eg. All's Fair ) Always has the last say, never wrong, corrects men on everything, rarely in stable relationships, "woman-"plains constantly and just an all round horrible existence.
Who writes that, that consistently, from movies to tv to games and believes they're helping girls? Who does that?
Not every woman has to be the same dainty or girly archetype either, fact is, a tomboy doesn't have to be synonymous with a "prick" to be feminine and strong, so if anything it's tomboy slander.
Just like Avatar Aang isn't the macho male character on Earth but he is an example of masculinity in a male youth that not only is uplifting, welcoming, but unifying as well just like Katara, Sokka & frankly all of the main protag cast in their respective situations/developments as boys & girls.
The same especially goes for Teen Titans 2003 cast, I can't stress that enough.
If you think it's misogyny for a woman to be turned into a parody of a man, *imagine how insulting it is as a man to be told that certain traits is toxic masculinity (stoicism, conquest, domination, cutting people off, mistreatment, violation) only for it to be presented as virtues or overlooked only when a woman does it. Thus it's not toxic masculinity, thus the concept is moronic, it's just dysfunctional human traits: a mask off moment.*
๐๐ You've been gaslighted again.
Both sides get spat in the face, and thats sold to you as empowering.
The Strong modern woman archetype is a reflection of the independent burnt out woman that's equally expected to emulate masculinized traits to compete & succeed in society. Not emulate actual MASCULINITY but masculinization at the cost of her natural birthright femininity, a parody.
Saying there's no difference between men and women is how this trend got it's foot in the door decades ago.๐๐
If this is bullshit? Or just baseless conspiracy ? Then naturally your western loneliness rates, your birthrates, your sex relations would prove me 1000% wrong by not being in the toilet right now. Because that's the crux of my point.
The archetype isn't causing the decline, it's a symptom of it; and the numbers reflect the symptom, the disconnect.
¯\_(ใ)_/¯ I want to be wrong, trust me. But it ain't that simple, it's way bigger than just some characters. This is sociological engineering people, propaganda is not a myth it is a very real, very effective science that goes way beyond just your Presidential Elections.
Those poorly written mascots represent the modern woman that the current progressive zeitgeists rigid norm of what a woman is.
But it doesn't reflect reality entirely, but just enough to reflect the decline.
Its really both sexes responsibility to check this, but men can't do it alone forever, they just look disgruntled and will be dismissed & dehumanized via labels as usual.
Thus a feminine perspective is needed because women are the targeted consumers, thus have slightly more weight in the ring in this situation, women have a stake in this conversation.
Males are not the direct target of this propaganda; but men's frustration is a calculated predictability to justify more of it. Women have been stepping up in the past few years calling it out๐ Good.
[I'm Really Tired of All Men in Movies Being Failures, Actually:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1v93ZbeDGk ]
๐ But YOU need more women speaking up in order to make the industry sweat and hold the norm accountable.
A united front is exactly what they don't want (hence the constant emasculation of men & masculinization of women), a united front is something you don't see enough in your media involving these archetypes; so a united front is exactly what needs to happen here against it.
I agree with the outreach message in principle but unfortunately just being black isn't being "like me", and that's where the disconnect is. To be like a person is a spectrum beyond just a preconceived standard of what is relatable.
That's why Captain America, Gundam, Avatar The Last Airbender 2005, Teen titans 2003, Pacific Rim, or Superman connects to so many people, they might not have been made to culturally look like blks or may not have been made for blks but they are "like" us, regardless of walk in life.
To tap into that beyond just being a "black" IP, that is truly building something that will connect in a more meaningful way.
Think about it this way if it's a character that could connect to anyone and they just happen to be black is more significant than just making a character to "be black" because we need more "black" which is more rigid & unlikely to appeal to most blacks anyway.
The formula Shawn speaks of (at the time & still to this day) would reach 60s blacks more successfully than how blacks are these days, which is more fluid. African Americans aren't the same cut cloth as before, they genuinely don't care about historical footprints, most of them like what's cool, aesthetically pleasing & well written.
If we had more projects in the same spirit as The Boondocks or that Black Dynamite show, then we're cooking with grease.
And white's & asians tend to make the coolest shit, most of the time.
In a macrocosmic sense, yes, voting for Trump led to Pretti's death however on the scale that matters in this context, the microcosmic:
Pretti would be alive if Pretti (& that woman that got pushed---- unnecessary on the officers part) stayed the fuck out of the way in the first place.
that's like me obstructing an officer, not an ICE/ but a regular officer because they were arresting someone I knew and I got killed because I legit tried to wrestle with the guy defending my friend who also was doing something they had no business doing (also getting in the cops way = so both of us are self-inserting ourselves into a horror of our own making).
I get called hero, but my ass would be alive if i stayed out the goddamn way.
Was 5-7+ officers necessary to detain one guy? Nope.
But that doesn't negate the fact that Pretti & that woman installed themselves in a situation so belabored they were damn near hanging out with the officers, from a distance in the footage I thought they were friends or something. So close to them they could smell them. And I bet the entire time the officers were asking them to stand down.
People think they're untouchable, it's like a grasp of "consequence" doesn't exist to some folk. Exercise your rights, hold people accountable, but the authorities are the authority, not you.
I came to an epiphany today (2-12-26), this is nothing but people trying to powerplay cops into submission like they were allowed to during the Biden presidency and the tragedy is people are finding out the authorities are not going to back down anymore.
That's what this is really about, not the whole thing, but these isolated chest puffs on the protestors part. You can't mommy finger wag the feds into lowering their heads and back up while you scream "SHAME!" and spit at them & you win the day like a MCU Superhero or something.
Life isn't a damn cartoon, thats what these people don't get. In their mediocre experiences--
THIS is how a lot of them get to feel like they exist, I 100% get it because I used to do shit similar to this. Talking in their group chats, stalking people, interrogating and intimidating fellow people of their community who they think is ICE, road blocks aka border patrol & ejecting people from territory they don't want aka cosplaying ICE (ironically)---
these cats really feel like they're a part of something important by cosplaying alleged fascism while thinking they're fighting alleged fascism.
The officers overreacting should be held accountable yet don't then IGNORE what the civies are doing to lead up to that, to insert themselves in situations they chose not to avoid by actually protesting vs being obstructions physically.
That's not how that works, you can't make cops kneel anymore, YOU have to comply. (within reason)
These officers need to relax, while I'm sure babysitting protestors all day gets annoying, these boys need to remember they're the one's in bulletproof vests and should take their positions more responsibly & less seriously.
However: Protesting is not a mask term to just do whatever the fuck you want then be surprised when you're reminded the person in the uniform is a human being with a limit, just like you.
Submission is a choice of acknowledgment of the man as the head of the situation, not the boss but the authority. that's no more slavery than it is A man's part to prioritize her wellbeing over his own, which technically puts her above him anyway while he has the primary authority.
But ppl rarely mention that caveat
Too many people confuse "submission"️ with "surrender"️ when they're not the same thing.
This is why too many chicks out here thinking submission is a threat to their "agency"-- Meanwhile, they want men to act like men. But they don't wanna respect the man's authority which is part of the deal.
modernity got yall overthinking everything until you dont know how to do any of it.
if she doesnt see him worthy to submit to, she doesnt respect him. *If she thinks submission is a threat & never does so? Thats why her ass is still single.* And if his manhood has been redefined so many times by fem lens experts, he doesnt know how to be worthy of that submission or thinks having to do so is simpery-- thats why his ass is single
Common thread: Me me me me, "Im the main character"
This is like redpill bros thinking a mans devotion to a woman is weakness, when thats literally a mans submission to the wife, thats part of masculinity. You expect her service but you aint gotta give an inch.
Modernity has played its members like a childrens game. Thats why your birthrates are shot, the fundamentals are all wrong.
It's not like there's some unspoken rule that after she submits, she can't voice her opinion ever and has to shut up indefinitely. Or submission is something that he takes from her versus something that she gifts by choice, because he earned it.
Yall just just create worldviews off of how it sounds.
Its not about her being a robot, its about how she sees you in the first place.
Progress did a number on Americans.
But in principle I agree with LTG, I dont want a servant neither.
my boy chibi is gonna have a body of content to look back on where he just bullshits for a living.
maybe he did believe his script once upon a time but he lacks that youthful fire as he did back in the day. He is definitely performing some of this, and every once in a while he breaks character & common sense slips through just to auto-correct and go right back to the money making talking points.
And it's not even him thats the entire issue, it's the comments under his videos & tweets that maps out precisely why he chooses not to stray from the bot videos and be honest for once & the audience respecting it. Which tells me he doesn't have a base, he has to be a reflection.
As someone that sorta got put on for a short period through Snobs criticisms of him, it's very clear the kind of situation he's in as far as his online relevance goes. He might even deny any of this, but sometimes a 3rd party perspective can possess more insight of a person than they wouldn't see in themselves, sometimes.
It's not all a character, Chibi's tastes really are that bad, but you can just clip the scripted lines vs the 2-15 seconds of him being real in-between.
Do what you gotta do but thats a rough deal.
“Thank you for this article. A regular piece on the issues men face would be very welcome. As a former high school soccer coach of high school boys and girls, I always thought boys and girls were more alike than different. But the statistics you recite are astounding. A few more: Men are 3 to 4 times more likely to commit suicide, Women live 5 years longer than men, Men are almost 3 times more likely suffer from homelessness, Men constitute 95% of the prison population; the list goes on. I don’t know why, but certainly the “toxic masculinity” narrative, devaluation of physical labor that many men do and the other issues cited in this article all contribute. I read many of the comments and I’m saddened by the anti-male, misandry many demonstrate. We have a serious problem with young men in the United States, let’s honestly address it.”
“As a former high school soccer coach of high school boys and girls, I always thought boys and girls were more alike than different. “ They always have been, I promise you.
Please stop telling us we're toxic. I don't understand why highly educated people who are so sensitive about language that they freak out about pronouns cannot see the negative impact that constantly saying "toxic masculinity" has on boys and young men.
Please stop telling us we're toxic. I don't understand why highly educated people who are so sensitive about language that they freak out about pronouns cannot see the negative impact that constantly saying "toxic masculinity" has on boys and young men.
I’m of the opinion that all of this constant gendered discussion about boys falling behind, and myriad articles jam-packed with statistics and charts to back it up, are part of the problem. Life is difficult, and all young people struggle. And they do seem to be struggling more with their mental health and adjustment these days. I won’t argue with that. But it is across the board. Boys are struggling. Girls are struggling. And gender nonconforming youth are struggling, to name a few demographics. By obsessing about gender differences, we only reinforce them for our children. There is no reason why a boy needs to grow up with different values than a girl. Wear different clothes. Have different hobbies. Girls play video games. Men make clothes. Girls can be awful to each other and to boys. Boys can be the same to each other and to them. If we stop talking so much about gender expectations, maybe kids can just live their lives without the pressure to measure up. The difference is here: Girls have historically struggled simply BECAUSE they were girls and discriminated against. Are boys struggling BECAUSE they are boys? I don’t think so. They aren’t struggling due to their maleness. Our society is still set up to reward men more than women for the same tasks. So boys may be struggling, but I don’t think it’s unique to them. I don’t think they are struggling because they were born male. It’s because our society obsesses about gender differences, creating unnatural expectations
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say one of the factors might be less men in education. I’m talking men who do men things like Tim Walz. Hunting, fishing, sports. When I started teaching in 1973 there was push to get more men in education, especially elementary, so it wasn’t seen as girly. That died with the salaries. There is more money elsewhere. I had one boy who was almost failing and hated school. He told me didn’t like reading much until I introduced him to books about dogs and hunting. Then magically a pile of library books appeared on his desk. He was on the honor roll his last marking period in my class. His dad, our janitor, said I saved him. Today he has land where he hunts, which he loves, a nice house good job and a family. I would play football with the kids at recess, even when it wasn’t my duty day. I had one boy who loved that and went on to star in high school. He said I made him a man. I’m not so sure about but the sentiments were nice. M I had another boy who came from a single mother family. The mother was very nice, loved her kids, but was stuck. She was a crossing guard. He went in the Army. He came back to see me in his uniform and I was so honored I could have cried. I felt like I should salute him. Boys need role models that reflect boy things sports, fishing hunting if that is the local culture, cars, what ever boys are interested in. They don’t need role models that are more metrosexual for lack of a better world. My opinion.
@Linda Cameron I find your response to this article somewhat disturbing. No one is blaming the girls for this outcome, and this is not a zero sum game. A generation of boys and young men is languishing and in need of help, and your immediate response is to say, "don't blame the girls!" which, again, is missing the point entirely in my opinion. This is not about assigning blame, it's about creating constructive solutions.
