accepting help

We’ve been tryyyyying, but these ungrateful homelesses just won’t have it!

PCD certainly is a serious problem and not a moral failing. As you say, my statement is incomplete, but I might call it focused instead. The reason I’m bringing up lonely men here isn’t because I think PCD is confined to men, but because I don’t know anything about women’s experiences with it

I go into more detail in a separate comment thread, but my take on the way NFT Avatar talks about PCD as sort of, ‘just how men work,’ is that within their worldview, it very likely is how they’re supposed to work. Tradcaths, Evangelicals, Mormons, and non-theistic Fapstronauts as they regrettably call themselves all share similar mechanisms for binding people’s sex drives into a feedback loop of doomed internal battles-of-will followed by feelings of shame and inadequacy steeling their resolve for the next doomed battle

It’s not just about masturbation, either. It’s part of a broader, essentialistic way of looking at people and their sexuality. In that kind of framework, the concept of an “ideal person” can be contrasted to “human nature,” and flattened onto a linear conception of morality. So, set the ideal to be both arbitrary and practically impossible, and suddenly you’re violating Morality (or some pop-psychology equivalent) by thinking about butts, which almost seems funny until you think about how hellish that is

What I guess I’m trying to say is that, in addition to all the other traumas people go through, we have some massively popular ideologies that systematically inflict particular kinds of ideological trauma on tons of people. I was lucky enough to escape Evangelical philosophy early, but it’s hard to describe just how reliably disorienting it can be to have a conditioned anxiety response to experiencing joy

You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth, there. Doing a lot of reworking what NFT Avatar and Other Dude actually said, too.

Deeper mental health problems can - and in this specific case do - have an ideological component. I don’t know what to tell you besides, “mainstream western culture is is at best permissive of hardcore misogyny and at worst overtly supportive of it, so of fucking course it’s a load-bearing part of the most common ideologies that capitalize on men’s loneliness.”

What? Realizing that sex has physiological effects is not the same thing as, “gotta legit not look at [my girl] for at least a couple hours.”

Embrace your cringe, comrade. Live in harmony with yourself

Please explain like I’ve drank a Four Loko. No reason

I do, it’s BOTW on your phone for free

If this is another Just Stop Oil one, then they more or less clear the stunt with museums beforehand. At least in the article I read about the soup or whatever, they had checked to make sure that the painting wouldn’t be harmed

It’s why I dislike them so much

Inland Empire: “People need to know of your vast, oceanic soul.”

That Dude: “My soul is immense.”

Inland Empire: “Utterly. And it needs to be heard. Through a hate forum. By other people.”

So that she could use the name of the “inventor” of gay conversion therapy.

Robert Galbraith, son of a jackal