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One of my big problems with most Takes About Masculinity is that I read what they say about masculinity in history and go, “I don’t think that was true of the 95% of historical humans who were peasant farmers.” These thinkpieces— and not even the right-wing and/or blackpilled ones, increasingly they all do this, even the well-intentioned generic lib ones— keep talking about Paths to Manhood that I’m pretty sure applied to Spartan boys in the agoge and basically nobody else.

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TIL: Umber is a pigment! So when the pigment is heated, it makes burnt umber, and when it’s not, it’s raw!

Also fun that the Wikipedia page has a “Criticism” section.

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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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Admin face reveal

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I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

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You just admitted that bear's a minor, you sick freak! We're shutting down this planetarium!

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Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.

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The great thing about having friends and acquaintances across a variety of professions is to really hammer home as much as possible the fact there is literally zero correlation between the amount someone actually works, the amount they contribute to society, and how much they make in a year.