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  • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Had an older co-worker who kept saying that Andrew Tate had some real gems and that he was just telling young men to give up videogames and hit the gym if they wanted some self worth.

    So one day I looked him dead in the eye and gave him my best impersonation of a 1950’s radio voice and said. " Young ladies if you don’t work on refining and improving your womanly figure with clean living and labourous exercise and not stop wasting your time reading novels then how will you ever expect to catch a husband?!"

    I would like to say that I scored a point but he just sputtered and went on being horrible.

    • quindraco@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Andrew Tate is the absolute worst, but it is also a fact - one that has been true for all of recorded history - that competing with each other for female attention is a generally popular male motivation. And when a guy doesn’t do those things, he can expect mockery. Do you have anything nice to say about neckbeards? No? Didn’t think so.

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        8 months ago

        You’re being downvoted for pointing out human nature. You’re not wrong, we compete for females. We’re animals, even if people want to lie and claim we’ve progressed. We have not.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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          8 months ago

          So i take it if you fancy a new “female” you kill her previous partner in a fight and then her children with that partner, so she will focuse her attention on the children you make with her. If necessary by raping her? Also if there is no nee females available you will rape and make new children with your own daughters?

          Because that is what animals do.

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            8 months ago

            Are you trying to use this argument to deny evolution or evolutionary instinct? Cuz your attempted argument makes no sense. Trying to claim humans aren’t driven to procreate is simply contrary to all available information.

            • Are you not understanding that social and cultural evolution is part of evolution and that there might be good reason why not murdering and rapeing each other like animals do, is an evolutionary advantage?

      • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, men policing other men’s commitment to masculinity, by mocking and putting others down and being violent, is an almost universal thing.

        And also a disease. And it shouldn’t exist.

        (I’m not implying you’re saying it should. I’m just stating it shouldn’t)

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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          8 months ago

          I remember at my first job we had a party. I played with the 10 years old daughter of the boss. Some guy was telling boring and exaggerated stories from his military service. Another guy told me i’am not particularly manly for drawing something with the little girl instead of listening to whatever.

          Still makes me chuckle that his understanding of masculinity revolves around pointless affirmative rituals than providing for your family and community.