“absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank”

One of the weirder sociopolitical flip-flops in the last 10 was conservatives becoming more skeptical of big pharma than liberals (to the extent those labels mean anything anymore).

A man in my life once gave me a book, written by a man, that discussed his true feelings about life and women.

It was brutal and gross. One part that always stuck out, likely because of my own insecurities, was he was going to the gym with his girlfriend. He lamented how she only worked on her upper body when her ass was fat and her thighs were too squishy. He didn’t know how to tell her that, and wished she’d get a clue that she needed to skip arm day and dessert.

I returned the book to this person and they were stoked, like- did you like it? Do you understand better where men are coming from? And I was all, yah, it’s worse than I thought.

The benefit of the doubt we give men is projection. The hope we ‘see’ in them, is projection. It’s not there. Most men are never going to live up to the men we’ve been promised, they simply don’t exist.

On a tangential note, I think the reason I have a literary crush on Cormoran Strike is because he is written by a woman, and even though she clearly takes great pains to give him some male stereotypical behavior, he’s a genuinely good person and sees women as human.

Nope, it's true. Back then fujoshis understood they were women and were women writing/drawing for other women. Actual gay men are often repulsed by BL and yaoi, which is why they make bara.

The fujoshis today all think fetishizing two gay men in a soft loving relationship means they aren't actually a woman. Despite the very fact that doing so means they are, because that genre is catered specifically for that demographic.

Hmm. Maybe that’s why men are so hostile to the idea of women meeting without men. They’re afraid of what we might be saying when they’re not there to silence us.

This reminds me of an ex in the building trade who said he hated the way The Guys talked about women. He was a good man.

what I've found is that women think it's just men talking that way in whatever niche they're in. "What is it about men in the xyz community that makes them so misogynistic?" I'm always like, that's how men are. But if they have a nigel or nigel jr they usually won't believe me.

she can just go on r/MtF

or any of the "cis porn" subs

It’s very interesting, the fact that men seem to assume everyone else on the internet is also a man. I wonder if it means something about their thinking? Not trying to be coy or dumb

LOL...so true!

yes, written by a Nora Vincent. She posed as a man and in her book apparently coddled men and acted like they had it so tough. MRAs now really like her bc she "revealed how hard it is to be a man."

They're so dangerously naive about men, and yet they think they are men. No honey you're just subject to misogyny and wish you weren't seen as less, same as us, just because we're women. The only difference is that we're not that self-absorbed or delusional to think all women are content to "stay as women", or that we must be really dumb to want to participate in our own sex-based oppression.

Eat that big, healthy serving of reality, child. You aren't a man, never will be. Every cell of you is female, even if riddled with testosterone, until the day you die.