Wow. I must confess that I hear names like Andrew Tate rarely, like a sound coming into an open window of a fast moving muscle car (image intended). Therefore, I do not know Tate and must be reminded. I pay no attention to Musk.
But this may help me understand something. I have few male friends because, frankly, most men irritate me. I do not have female friends if they hang with this type man. For me the whole concept of man is devolving as is humanity.
For those who think we should ignore Tate and not give him much air-time, I know a lot of people who felt the same way about Trump and we know how that went.
I no longer believe men and humanity are devolving. I recognize it only seems that way because some, mostly women, are evolving. I look to the insights of black women (and I’m white) to get my best view of America and the world with its racism, misogyny, greed and other issues all codified for thousands of years by men using the great con game of religion to give them power.
BTW, I believe what I call the Cafe Latte liberals to be as great a problem as the conservative whackos. Rich liberals are not fiends.
However, I recognize we all have warts because none of us know all the facts. I fell in love with what I was reading from Simone de Beauvoir as a teenager but as an adult now recognize I do not really know who she is because a lot of what I know about her is through other’s eyes. Still like what I believe to be mostly true.
Ok, you are not a black woman but a lot of what you see is what I see no NO NO NO. Never listen to those asking you to not talk about Tate and people like that out of their own (I’ll leave this descriptor blank because there are many reasons and it is complex). Do not know why I say this to you as my gut tells me you will always call it as you see it.
Only by discussing all this and doing what we can will we be able to find any peace with our life as Sisyphus does in Camus’s interpretation.
It’s definitely very sad to see potentially good guys getting sucked into this world. It reminds me a bit of how I made excuses for Elon Musk for quite a while. I didn’t fully see the red flags around his covid views and other things like that. I was definitely very uncomfortable with it, but failed to draw the line there as I should have. I was never one of his crypto promoting fanboys, but it’s definitely embarrassing to look back at it now he’s gone full mask off as a far-right lunatic. It doesn’t take much for someone to go down this path, so as a society I’d like to see compassion for the men with low self-esteem to help them out of it. Not so much with someone like Tate though. Someone who’s that cruel and who isn’t going to change deserves the full Greta treatment.
I experienced toxic masculinity as a child while medicated for what is now called ASD when a gang of older boys used to beat me up while walking home from school- building their sick egos while tearing others down.
Many men are encouraged to be "top dog" in the "dog eat dog" world created by monsters hiding behind nations and those often running those exploitative institutions.
I am a fan of Greta and exist in the same one biogeophysical reality as her, I was very lonely until I saw her speak, it is indescribably stressful to confront ones whole civilisation and I admire her courage greatly.
That was an awesome reply to the disgusting monster and it bought the idiot undone, he deserves prison.
Nikos Kanzantzakis’ character Zorba the Greek said, ”God made man weak. And I am a man!”. (He said this in the movie, not anywhere that I could find it in the book. ). I suppose this is the point, being mindful of one’s weakness. Who’s driving the bus? It mustn’t be Andrew Tate or Trump,Musk, Bezos or anyone or anything other than oneself , with eyes open and fully awake. Because we’re all Bozos on this bus. Good article, I find it disturbing too.
I really appreciate all of this, because Tate is a plague. I did have one hope though; I understand that “small dick energy” is a common insult and that’s why you’re using it, but would you consider switching to something like “gross dick energy”? My sense of you is that you’re someone who doesn’t want to cause collateral damage against innocent folks, and small-dick jokes do exactly that (they support the idea that body shaming is fine, and they’re also unintentionally transphobic because they link the idea of bad masculinity with small penises, which is going to target the vast majority of trans men and trans masc people).
Great and spot on writing. I am upset with IG, last night my feed had 4 sketchy sites all favoring this weirdo. I did some blocking, hey IG just because someone is on the news doesn’t mean I want to see him on my feed.
Let’s not forget that this karma wouldn’t have happened if Mister Musk, Esq. didn’t unban Tate and others like him from Twitter. Between Tate and Prince Andrew, I think they’ve over-exploited their name sake. (“Andrew” meaning manly.) I know Andrew as a name (and nicknames like Andy & Drew) were once very popular names. Wouldn’t bother me if no new boy is named “Andrew.”
I saw that Lawrence post. I'm not 100% positive that his profile wasn't set up by someone to mock lawrence. The attached photo could certainly imvite it. If Lawrence is real, he has tons of issues. That said, your analysis is spot on.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut.
He said that 45 years ago. It's even more true today than in 1977.
Wow. I must confess that I hear names like Andrew Tate rarely, like a sound coming into an open window of a fast moving muscle car (image intended). Therefore, I do not know Tate and must be reminded. I pay no attention to Musk.
But this may help me understand something. I have few male friends because, frankly, most men irritate me. I do not have female friends if they hang with this type man. For me the whole concept of man is devolving as is humanity.
For those who think we should ignore Tate and not give him much air-time, I know a lot of people who felt the same way about Trump and we know how that went.
I no longer believe men and humanity are devolving. I recognize it only seems that way because some, mostly women, are evolving. I look to the insights of black women (and I’m white) to get my best view of America and the world with its racism, misogyny, greed and other issues all codified for thousands of years by men using the great con game of religion to give them power.
BTW, I believe what I call the Cafe Latte liberals to be as great a problem as the conservative whackos. Rich liberals are not fiends.
However, I recognize we all have warts because none of us know all the facts. I fell in love with what I was reading from Simone de Beauvoir as a teenager but as an adult now recognize I do not really know who she is because a lot of what I know about her is through other’s eyes. Still like what I believe to be mostly true.
Ok, you are not a black woman but a lot of what you see is what I see no NO NO NO. Never listen to those asking you to not talk about Tate and people like that out of their own (I’ll leave this descriptor blank because there are many reasons and it is complex). Do not know why I say this to you as my gut tells me you will always call it as you see it.
Only by discussing all this and doing what we can will we be able to find any peace with our life as Sisyphus does in Camus’s interpretation.
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It’s definitely very sad to see potentially good guys getting sucked into this world. It reminds me a bit of how I made excuses for Elon Musk for quite a while. I didn’t fully see the red flags around his covid views and other things like that. I was definitely very uncomfortable with it, but failed to draw the line there as I should have. I was never one of his crypto promoting fanboys, but it’s definitely embarrassing to look back at it now he’s gone full mask off as a far-right lunatic. It doesn’t take much for someone to go down this path, so as a society I’d like to see compassion for the men with low self-esteem to help them out of it. Not so much with someone like Tate though. Someone who’s that cruel and who isn’t going to change deserves the full Greta treatment.
Thank you again Jessica.
I experienced toxic masculinity as a child while medicated for what is now called ASD when a gang of older boys used to beat me up while walking home from school- building their sick egos while tearing others down.
Many men are encouraged to be "top dog" in the "dog eat dog" world created by monsters hiding behind nations and those often running those exploitative institutions.
I am a fan of Greta and exist in the same one biogeophysical reality as her, I was very lonely until I saw her speak, it is indescribably stressful to confront ones whole civilisation and I admire her courage greatly.
That was an awesome reply to the disgusting monster and it bought the idiot undone, he deserves prison.
The Greta effect❤🌏💙
I hope you have a great new year!
Nikos Kanzantzakis’ character Zorba the Greek said, ”God made man weak. And I am a man!”. (He said this in the movie, not anywhere that I could find it in the book. ). I suppose this is the point, being mindful of one’s weakness. Who’s driving the bus? It mustn’t be Andrew Tate or Trump,Musk, Bezos or anyone or anything other than oneself , with eyes open and fully awake. Because we’re all Bozos on this bus. Good article, I find it disturbing too.
Thank you Jessica🙏
I really appreciate all of this, because Tate is a plague. I did have one hope though; I understand that “small dick energy” is a common insult and that’s why you’re using it, but would you consider switching to something like “gross dick energy”? My sense of you is that you’re someone who doesn’t want to cause collateral damage against innocent folks, and small-dick jokes do exactly that (they support the idea that body shaming is fine, and they’re also unintentionally transphobic because they link the idea of bad masculinity with small penises, which is going to target the vast majority of trans men and trans masc people).
Your platform matters, and what you do matters. I hope you’ll consider making this small change for the future. (And if you’d like more info on this, here’s a good article from 2016, though plenty more has been written since. https://www.thrillist.com/amphtml/sex-dating/nation/small-dick-jokes-not-funny-must-stop )
Great and spot on writing. I am upset with IG, last night my feed had 4 sketchy sites all favoring this weirdo. I did some blocking, hey IG just because someone is on the news doesn’t mean I want to see him on my feed.
Let’s not forget that this karma wouldn’t have happened if Mister Musk, Esq. didn’t unban Tate and others like him from Twitter. Between Tate and Prince Andrew, I think they’ve over-exploited their name sake. (“Andrew” meaning manly.) I know Andrew as a name (and nicknames like Andy & Drew) were once very popular names. Wouldn’t bother me if no new boy is named “Andrew.”
Well said.
I saw that Lawrence post. I'm not 100% positive that his profile wasn't set up by someone to mock lawrence. The attached photo could certainly imvite it. If Lawrence is real, he has tons of issues. That said, your analysis is spot on.