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How is love even possible under traditional gender roles if men aren't allowed to be vulnerable?

I think part of the issue is hypermasculinity and the focus on zero weakness is a relatively new thing. I'm not saying the idea that men are tough and that people being ostracized for not fitting the mold is new, but in recent years there is certainly a higher importance placed by conservatives on staying in your lane in political and online discourse that can trap young people into thinking there's no wiggle room. But go back to the years they see as the golden years (good luck getting them to pin that down or why they were golden btw). I don't know. 40s maybe? Nazis love ww2 stuff. Watch movies or listen to songs from then. It's all about how women make men feel light and gay (happy back then). They feel twitterpated. They swoon. Those are all words for feeling soft and fuzzy. Cishet men put themselves out there to women they felt lovey about and got rejected sometimes. The letters they wrote in wars are about how they miss the tenderness of their partners. Relationships are the respite from the horrirs of war. Not the other way around. Modern conservatives are lying that men were pimps and that women are only attracted to power. Some women are, but a good lot of them were probably raised in that mess too and think they have to do it that way.

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everyone warning!!

Back when the internet was new and it wasn't clear why every business would need a website, pringles was one that stood out to me as completely unnecessary. There's no direct sales and there's no pringles news to speak of. Turns out they had a bunch of fun little mini games on there. In short, I probably need to check the status of my pringles.com account...

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Modern work is making people ill: Here an article about a condition called "Attention Deficit Trait", similar to ADHD, caused by too much work

I was nodding along until the last section about what organizations can do for their people and it's like give them a "human moment" where they can talk to a person every 4 hours or do some light exercise. Maybe give them a brain healthy snack... Seriously?! Why can't we ever step back and recognize that it might be that the demand is too high and that is not some failure of character of the worker? I hear a lot of people complain that worker productivity has increased without wages having grown to match. Why don't we stop to question the need to constantly be productive more? The productivity monster is never satisfied; always asking for the line to grow higher and the employee to be more efficient with their time. The first half of the article states our brains are simply not wired for that level of demand and then the author suggest we life hack our way through it to even greater levels of productivity. They tack on unlimited sick days as an after thought, but even that is crap if the company culture is wholely focused on productivity. Workers will be trained to not use it. Those that can work from home, just pivot to that so they don't get others sick, but they also don't get behind in work. It's insanity.