My hatred for this person is a thousand burning suns.

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Trans people seem to have a knack for hating men huh.

I’m not trans. I’m a cis male. (edit: well, mostly. TBH on a higher rational level I might as well be genderless, I’m a cis male by convenience)

Go on, try it there’ll be no tolerance for people who advocate for this levels of evil

Evil? I’m suggesting such not to punish males. Its to minimize loneliness and sadness in the world.

Trans man here to say that nobody needs to give any extra cred to MRA bullshit just because a trans person is saying it. I have also been through the full dude experience including profound loneliness. I likewise thought I was prepared but wasn’t. Its hard. I miss how things were before too.

I don’t think the author was giving credit to MRA bullshit. MRA’s seem to often hate women and I don’t think the article implies any hatred, if anything he still tries to essentially that men are the ones that need to put in the effort to push past toxic masculinity. Describing it as a problem to be fixed at the individual level rather than at systematic level. Saying "If I could advise men, it would be first to look inward. "

I also know that in general, in 2025, all people are more isolated than 20 years ago. Furthermore, it is a known phenomena for a longtime that friendships are more difficult to cultivate as an adult. I doubt how different things would have turned out for me had I not transitioned.

Suicide rates differ for a reason. It is far more painful to be a lonely man than a lonely woman. Men are very quick to self loathing.

I also know that the “distance” I now experience from women is a direct result of 20,000 years of patriarchal violence. Of course women relate to me as a potential threat; I am one. And without the presumed vulnerability I possessed as a woman, men relate accordingly. Of course.

We should have fewer male babies. It seems like it’d reduce the amount of fear and alienation in society. (I’m saying this in good faith, I’m serious.)

At some point, as a trans guy, you need to stop leaning on your experience “as a former woman” to compare your life to, especially in the negative. Being 22 is not the same as 42 no matter what your gender presentation at any point. Many people experience nostalgia for their youth.

Based on my own reading/discourse, trans women usually seem to feel very little youth nostalgia in comparison. They might complain that they’re older now, but that’s usually more of a melancholy over “what could have been” had they been AFAB.

Just as when cis guys make these complaints, I question this person’s definition of “you dont get to”. In fact the article describes him making a career out of doing so. Even specific instances of “going viral”, and the affirmative feedback he received. It seems that you do get to.

I’m pretty sure he was talking about social pressures. Sure, he got to because he was very motivated to push against that societal expectation, that doesn’t really mean that average men can get away with that unless they dedicate their whole career/life to it.

Which leads to pointing out that the whole thing is an advertisment for the author who is “a Professional Corporate Speaker and Stress Management Coach”.

I think calling it an advertisement is a stretch based only on that, but even if it was that doesn’t invalidate the point being made.

And it has anti-trans hate material suggested items in the middle of it:

I think that’s just because those are controversial yet related articles on Newsweek so their algorithm picked them. But yeah, those do seem to be especially trashy and obvious anti-trans articles. Its kind of gross that they ever ran on Newsweek to be honest…

If we condone violence as an effective means to achieve political results, we’re literally supporting terrorism, because that’s what that is:

I never said “political ends”. I was reasonably specific “fewer people dying in the long run”.

Do you take issue with terrorism because of the results (immediate deaths + chilling effects) or because it is unvirtuous? Because I don’t care about virtue at all.

I also don’t put powerful people on the same level as a regular “civilian”. When you take on a powerful position and then proceed to abuse the position so thoroughly that you cause mass deaths you might as well be a military general. In Trump’s case, he’s now literally the commander in chief of the US military.

I also want to point out that I don’t even believe in free will and my ethical frame work here isn’t that I simply want to “take out the trash” or seek vengeance. On a purely rational level I want the harm to stop, not to make Trump or Brian Thompson suffer or die. If there is a reasonable means to achieving that without killing them I would be in favor. But failing to find a pacifistic alternative I actually would say it is an ethical failure not to.

Not condoning violence against a fascist is rolling over and letting them get away with fascist shit. I take it you think Brian Thompson deserves sympathy as well?

Regardless of whether Kyle Gass is doing fine, it still reveals either a weak character on Jack Black’s part or significant ideological disagreement with my own beliefs. To an extent that I find him much less appealing as an actor or performer.

If violence against a corporate ghoul, fascist, or nazi saves more lives in the long run, it is 100% justified. If Crooks had not missed we’d be living in a much better world right now and far fewer people would be in serious danger.

I’m still sore about Jack Black being a coward and throwing Kyle Gass under the bus so IDK how much that would help with my enjoyment.

Transitioning to a point of passing in my understanding (mtf or ftm) comes with pros and cons.

I often think about this article as well when it comes to trans men’s negative experiences once accepted as men: https://www.newsweek.com/trans-man-broken-men-1817169

Well, I know people would watch it.

I did not watch the Minecraft movie myself, no desire to experience a full theater of people throwing popcorn around screaming chicken jockey.

Movie industry is fucked.

My point exactly.

I mean, perhaps a bad use of word “fix”. Its not like I was endlessly doom scrolling or watching short form videos. I was mostly playing Halo, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, and GTA 3/Vice City. And when I was allowed to be play on the Xbox I had friends over and we split screened all the time. I miss split screen.

What’s a D in internationally understood scoring? Like 40%?

A ‘D’ is 60%-69%

What the fuck.

lol I mean, that shit is happening way more frequently these days than they were back then. I was probably an odd one out in that age group in the late nineties seeing as the internet was still “a place you visited”.

I work in an after school program (one man IT department, paper pusher, and bus driver mostly) and there have been numerous times when its been brought to my attention that some of the kids had seen stuff they were not supposed to on the internet at home which they’d then talk about here getting themselves in trouble.

I once heard an 7 year old boy say loudly “I have a great sweaty gyatt!” on the bus, in a way that clearly indicated that he knew exactly what that meant. I decided to be lenient and told him that someone else had gotten written up for using that word around the youth counselors and that was my warning to him to not say it unless he wanted to get in trouble.

Bah.

I know a lot of kids end up messed up and addicted to screens or whatever but my parents let me use computers and the internet as much as I wanted and I’m sort of glad they did. My dad only (attempted) to refuse any access to my Xbox one summer after I got some D’s. I pretended to not use it but I was still waking up like 5-6 hours before him so I’d get my fix every morning anyway.

That said, I stumbled into seeing DBZ hentai when I was like 8-9 on the internet. I did not let my parents find out precisely bc I was worried about them taking away the computer from me. I don’t think that meaningfully negatively impacted me either but obviously its hard to know.

Fair enough, maybe I could give it another try.

I know, I own one. I just also have a desktop with a 4070 super.

For me, learning the GUI isn’t the biggest issue but taking full advantage of my hardware and some online game’s anti-cheat.

I know Linux driver support that Nvidia has put out has brought it to a pretty good place, but my understanding is that its still not at parity and there is a performance impact to switching.

Window’s 11 is pretty annoying to use on various levels. I only upgraded to it because my brother encouraged me. Hes always been a little bit of a mainstream tech cheerleader though. Hes always cheered on Intel, Nvidia, and Windows. Its funny though right now I (somewhat resentfully) have an Nvidia because of my performance demand and he has a Radeon because of budget.

I think I might need to start trusting myself on my hardware searches a lot more. Of course I probably wont be buying new hardware for a while anyway.

I literally just want Windows 7 again but with security updates, driver support, and back end technology upgrades.

For now I’m settling with Window’s current state with some Linux use mixed in with the intent to nearly fully migrate for my next desktop build. I’ll only use Windows for whatever games refuse to budge on anti-cheat, assuming by then I’m even still interested in playing pvp games at all considering how enshittified they are with engagement based matchmaking and FOMO battlepasses.

If Valve was planning on releasing hardware soon they’re going to postpone given the tariff threat.

Honestly, the hand job controversy seemed a little slut shamey to me.

Like, sure, it was wrong to do that in a public place but considering the scandals of most republicans that was almost quaint.

I almost always drink 32oz of black coffee a day. For more than a decade that seemed to be perfect.

As of late I’ve found however that I’m still tired and end up slipping an extra cup in.

Just replying to show a genuine interest in a more fleshed out response from you when you are at a keyboard again, if you aren’t up for writing more on it though, no worries.