I mean, it's kind of hard not to look at the world around you and conclude that society is utterly failing, and we're regressing backwards into a way of living that is a haunting repeat of the past. Sorry if this is a long rant, but I'm just pissed and need to vent:

- Somehow, authoritarianism and autocracy, usually led by patriarchal loser men, and championed by pathetic people who need religion or dictatorial figures to tell them what to do, is fashionable again. Far-right parties have made a resurgence across much of the developed world, and the US Republican party has completely embraced fucking fascism, and is proud of it. All because white men are angry they're not on top anymore, or are angry that "other" people (liberals, women, immigrants, minority groups) are being given benefits they feel they are entitled to, even though rich men in general have enjoyed privileges only recently available to everyone else since the dawn of human history. Or because people (i.e. cowards) would rather trade their freedom and rights just so they can have gas and eggs be a few dollars cheaper, or ally themselves with other countries because they think their systems are better than the West. It's disgusting!!!

- Tradwife content is exploding on social media, abortion is in danger of being banned nationwide, and I've had friends, both male and female, inexplicably become more conservative over time or endorse authoritarian tactics to ensure "security" in society. I have one friend who straight up said we need to "take a page" from El Salvador's current president, Nayib Bukele, and that his extremely high approval rating speaks for itself (somehow justifying his autocratic style of governance). I have another friend who despite being a woman is totally OK with serving a partner and has denounced trying to be "independent" by herself because women are "different" from men with different biologies and thus cannot be expected to be able to achieve or do the same things as men can. I don't understand her line of reasoning even being a man myself-- why wouldn't a woman want MORE freedom to do as she pleases, rather than less?

- Katie Britt sounded like the Commander's Wife or an Auntie from the Handmaid's Tale with her response to Biden's SOTU. She's a traitor to her own gender-- same thing with Amy Coney Barrett.

- We still have a massive problem with hyper-masculine dictators abusing their citizens, starting wars, and overall just being absolute pieces of shit. (Russia's war in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, China, etc).

- Large corporations and fossil fuel conglomerates are CONTINUING to destroy the planet for profit and nobody is doing anything. Nobody. We've decided to just collectively give up and let Jeff Bezos ride his dick-shaped rocket into space, or Elon Musk act like a manchild with his fantasies of being Tony Stark, while living conditions grow worse and we face a Sixth Mass Extinction that every scientist worth their salt agree is happening (I don't drive for this reason but it's not like me not doing so has any meaningful effect on things). Most of the rich fucks who are responsible for the current state of the world are not men, but little boys who think they can do whatever they want-- and they're right, because they're so rich and powerful they never face any accountability for their actions. There is NO justice, and society only pretends to value "democracy" and "autonomy" and "individual rights" and "equality under the law" until it doesn't. We pay lip service to ideas like that but don't actually follow through.

- Trump being a pig and a lunatic, as usual, and comparing himself to Kim Jong Un, and echoing Hitler, and people defending him for his rhetoric. We're repeating the 1920s and 1930s and people have either forgotten their history or simply don't care.

- Misinformation and disinformation going out of control, with no moderation or regulation.

- AI and its disastrous consequences on society.

- Loneliness, divorce, the destruction of the family, and short-term superficial relationships being normalized. Cheating and heartbreak being normalized. Lack of humanity being normalized. Women and men not being able to find anyone that isn't garbage being normalized (both men and women in their 20s and beyond are increasingly by themselves, alone, and have no relationship experience). Social media crap being normalized. Ignorance being celebrated, and actual human empathy being vilified.

- Mass socioeconomic inequality that is growing worse every day. Young people can't make it out ahead. I will NEVER be able to buy a home with the housing market being as horrible as it currently is, and in my 20s still trying to get by as an educator, when I should be THRIVING by now.

- Men are STILL being shamed for not being "manly" or crying, and masculinity as a whole is going through a crisis, arguably of its own making. I don't understand why it was ever OK for my parents to shame me for crying as a young man, or why my family still embraces traditional gender roles, radical religion etc, and call liberals "Marxists" or effeminate man like myself "weak" when I treat women with far more respect that my own father ever did (serial monogamist asshole), and my Uncle (who still drinks with "the boys" and casually insults gay people). The patriarchy hurts both women AND men, yet many people still subscribe to it for no good reason.

REAL men show self-restraint and compassion, and acknowledge their own faults, but the "men" in my life have been machismo-ridden, pride-filled, disrespectful, emotionally abusive asshole toddlers who refuse to give women the light of day, then turn around and gatekeep what being a man is about. I recently realized that I've never been exposed to a healthy male role model, nor a healthy relationship, and seeing all of that fall apart has made me question whether I will ever be able to even function in one in a healthy manner.

- Andrew motherfucking Tate. It makes my blood boil that someone this awful as is as popular as he currently is and is leading thousands of men and boys astray.

- Incel ideology poisoning so many people's minds, mass shootings, violence, etc.

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