she mac my wood until i fleet

Can you believe that Mr Robot, and Psych existed on the same network? One is a visionary drama series that shone a stark light on our own society, and the other starred Rami Malek. Small world.

@Comrade_Dolphin I don’t think that is what OP is saying, implicitly or explicitly.

"Mathematics doesn't require critical thinking." People REALLY have no idea what math is huh

@PitmanSabaya @akarlin I disagree that asoiaf presents a nihilistic and subversive story. I’m curious what brings you to that conclusion

@akarlin The behavior of Smaug requires as much or less suspension of disbelief as asoiaf dragons. In asoiaf we have a nihilistic and subversive story where hopes are never enough and yet there's a magic dragon woman who inexplicably controls dragons.

This is a Tolkien weakness because OP dragons and the world remaining human-centric violate suspension of disbelief. Realistically Tolkien's dragons should have been the main characters of Middle-Earth. As apex physical, intellectual, AND magical beings, only the most powerful Maiar should have been able to match them. Crass as it sounds, The Elder Scrolls is far more realistic, in that the dragons trivially dominated humans through their human underlings (the dragon-priests), and it took a dragon civil war (= elite defections) for humans to break free. GoT is also perfectly realistic, it is more or less exactly how a world in which one faction in a medieval world gains the biological equivalent of bomber aircraft would look like.

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Why do you say

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ Pronouns mean the same thing it’s just trying to hide it

Actually a surprisingly deep topic. It’s similar to how people think Boomers/Silent Gen “touch people too much” or “complain about their wives too much” In some ways, generations have become more and more 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ To your worldview

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Going through your profile, it seems like this idea that men in America are forced into humiliation rituals by women who value submissiveness and don’t find their non traditionally masculine partners attractive but maintains relationships with them anyway might be load bearing

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Why

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ I could call myself a sex offender and it’d still be better than having pronouns in my bio

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Could be. I could see some truth in that. Another explanation is they think this kind of superficial irony reveals a deeper sincerity that they find endearing. Millenials are well known for their embracing of sincerity to the point of cringe

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ Yes, millennials value that because they’re all actually insecure and they think doing performative stuff like this shows that they’re super secure in themselves

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Yeah I’m not surprised you’d say that

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ It’s more because I’ve lost interest in trying to explain to you anything because you clearly are just being obtuse about it

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ Again, we agree that YOU find it humiliating. And that could be due to some insecurity you hold or it could not be! I don’t wanna assume. I do KNOW that millenials do value self depreciating humor tho. That’s observable fact, their idiosyncrasies are well documented.

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ I don’t know why you think any man would willingly want Jason Momoa‘s hand face bombing him while he hold his girl away that’s just not funny. It’s honestly humiliating and if that’s what they want then by all means, let them have it

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ You don’t really seem concerned with making a compelling argument without buying into weird assumptions tho so maybe this conversation is futile. You just seem to have a deep negative bias (probably informed by some personal experience) here that colors your ability to explain it

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ “Those guys find it funny because they don’t have a choice too” I disagree, that’s a very big and nasty assumption to make based on the little information we have.

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ It’s not really about whether we find it funny. It’s about the fact that the couples find it funny, and that sense of humor is an valued trait among millennials

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ That doesn’t sound very funny to be honest these women should not get into stand-up comedy

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ The joke is based on the fact that Jason momoa is incredibly attractive and ripped, and so the humor is derived from the idea that these women have a chance with him. The bf/husband exists as the Straight Man to this heightened dynamic.

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ What is the joke?

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ “…because the guys aren’t attractive”. If they ARE attractive, then that undermines the idea that the only reason why either partner would participate in this bit is because the woman isn’t attracted to them. Do you see what I’m saying?

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ These guys are attractive. And it’s not hard to imagine that there are plenty of women who would find them attractive. So that kinda undermines your reasoning here. Which seems to be “their partners make them do this because they aren’t attracted to them, we know that…”

@FistingLater @lost_nomad__ I wouldn’t call a woman insecure for that either, but tbf, I’m not a millenial so I don’t value an ability to laugh at yourself or make yourself the joke of a bit as much as millenials do. Do you disagree that millenials value humor and participation in bits in partners

@com_radical @lost_nomad__ There’s a reason not one of those guys in those pictures are attractive I would never call a girl insecure for not wanting to reenact this type of picture with Kiera knightly or Scarlett Johansson, it’s honestly pathetic a relationship partner would even suggest such a thing