Mostly homophobia I would guess.

TL;DR: Articles on mastodon will now automatically link to the author’s fediverse handle.

TL;DR: Articles on mastodon will now automatically link to the author’s fediverse handle.

And it wasn’t the last time. Remember super Tuesday?

In my memory people considered them meh at best but I had some fun. I remember the DS version in particular being pretty dope.

This is exactly the issue. The bar was set so low. He was barely able to put together a coherent response to the infanticide claims, which was something even the lowest of information voters know is a lie. He let Trump walk all over him on immigration even though Biden put together a “bipartisan” plan that was just a Republican wishlist. If Biden had articulated any of that we’d probably be having a different conversion.

Stopping out seems to be an industry term that refers to semi-quitting school with an intent to return.

What does harassment mean in this context?

Why tf would you associate with men who would punish you if you don’t “live up to a masculine ideal”?

It’s not like men are ever given an explicit choice. Very frequently this means older male relatives.

I think we’re splitting hairs here. They don’t want to because they feel like they can’t do so without repurcussions.

This is absolutely true and I’m always surprised there isn’t more acknowledgement in progressive women’s circles. Simple polling shows that roughly a third of women hold all men to these standards but there are significantly more who exclusively apply it to potential partners (speaking from a very US-centric perspective).

The honest solution is that women who think this way are simply not good partners, and should be avoided to whatever degree is possible.

Well it’s entirely dependent on their social circle, right? They’re the ones who would or would not enforce these norms.

Ruined?

This is by design and most people fell for it entirely. Even the second highest content in this thread is carrying water for big oil.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here.

Toxic man: oh guess I am just gunna keep doing what I am doing if you aren’t going to tell me what to do.

The reason this comes up is that masculinity is largely based around externally conferred social status. You have to constantly be doing something to maintain an image of masculinity. Often this means some sort of social or physical violence in the right time or place (beat up the mugger to defend your partner, call out your boss when you’re being treated unfairly, put rival men in their place). Just as frequently, however, it is the expectation of a certain amount of self sacrifice (paying for meals, military service). What they don’t understand is how anyone can expect them to maintain their social status when they are avoiding this role that they have been explicitly shown that there will be consequences if they fail to meet. The answer is simple: once you’re out of the masculinity rat race, you’re out. By refusing to take part in the hierarchy of dominance you will eventually be subject to a more general and, frankly, human set of standards.

The only problem is that all of these pressures are external in the first place and this whole dynamic creates strong social gender boundaries. It is very easy for a lot of men to look at their social circles and see exclusively people who punish them for a failure to live up to a masculine ideal.

Pretty sure India is mostly selling Russia’s old arms back to them. The new stuff should probably be interpreted as an attempt to build a counterbalance to China in the region (as in deliberate, longstanding US defense policy).

I really think you nailed it here

Would you be willing to expand a little bit for the purposes of discussion?

As others have pointed out the clear option is PeerTube. The fascinating thing about PeerTube right now is that the frontend experience actually seems to be best on other services. This is primarily because discoverability between instances is fairly poor due to both federation mechanics and due to the nature of bootstrapping social. Because Lemmy and Mastodon feature their own human driven mechanisms for content discovery this problem is largely solved so long as you are browsing through another platform (the same mechanisms do not seem to transfer well to a youtube like frontend, although nobody has tried yet). Comments made on Lemmy and Mastodon will also federate back to PeerTube so you’re not segregated based on what service you follow from.

You can subscribe to channels from both Lemmy and Mastodon. Check out some popular channels:
!veronicaexplains_channel@tilvids.com
!letstalkphilosophy_channel@tilvids.com
!alliterative_channel@tilvids.com
!kde@tube.kockatoo.org
!lofiorchestra@makertube.net
!random_retro@makertube.net

NOTES:

• All of the above are channels. On Lemmy you can only subscribe to channels while on Mastodon you can subscribe to both channels and users. This is important as some videos get federated under the channels and some under the users. I believe this is up to the individual creator.
• Whitelist only is still fairly popular among PeerTube instances so you may not be able to access all creators from your Lemmy instance.
• Federation does not backfill so if the channels appear blank don’t panic. It will fill in with future videos.
• If you follow these channels from Mastodon and then put them in a list you have a feed that is analogous to Youtube’s subscribed page