what being surpressed does to a mf

I know lots of guys who got divorced and started thriving. Its not "divorced guys" its who they are, and have been for a long time at least
- Being a shitbag is a leading cause of divorce for all genders.

"But they're rich so they can't be losers." - Losers
- At some point in my 47 years, because it sure was not like this when I was younger, Americans adopted this idea in huge numbers that the richer you are, the better you are, and that if you support the right rich person, you get to be rich too.
  I don't know how America got there and I did not notice it happening.
  
  Uhh, nah that's not new. Charles Dickens explicitly talked mad smack about how greedy and self-enamoured Americans were, and their general worship of the wealthy. It was a severe kick in the head to his previous conceptions of America being a place of prosperity and opportunity.
  
  I think it really took hold somewhere prior to social media, equating business success with greatness, and with social media people became vaguely more aware of these masters of business. But as social media matured they became more active and the populace largely learned that they're no more intelligent than anyone else, just lucky and often have less morals.
  
  American Christians deepthroated the "prosperity gospel." We're just realizing a few decades of indoctrination as the average person can no longer parse fact from fiction. Which is the inherent cognitive dissonance of religion.
  
  Wasn’t it always like this in America? Just with enough growth of economy so that everyone felt like they made progress?

Man, I was married for a decade, together for longer, and I was absolutely devastated.
But I don't want to strip women (or other people) of rights and start a genocide.
Theres something else far more wrong with them, and I think it involves money
- Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." ― Terry Pratchett
  If psychopaths have all the traits of succeful CEOs and these creeps are amongst the most successful CEOs of their times...
- Theres something else far more wrong with them, and I think it involves money
  There's also that they don't have to deal with the 'women are emotional' trope, so in general, there's always going to be another assumption. The only extremely famous woman I can think of on roughly this level is J.K. Rowling, and hers wasn't divorce driven.
  
  Aside from her obvious divorce from reality 🥁
  
  I've often wondered what sent J.K. down the path she's on. I get that it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle at dinner point, but something must've happened.
  Basically I'm looking for her "Pedo guy mini sub" moment if it exists.

I really don't understand how people think women are more emotional due to hormones....
Testorone is basically crack, and I think a lot of societal issues are due to aging powerful men going on it so they can feel 18 again when they're 50.
The problem is 18 year old guys are fucking crazy because their testorone is so high.
- I worked for an iron mine and there was a 25 y/o telling me to take roids or T for "the gains", while others were saying that T helped them keep up the pace to chase younger women. They seemed unhinged.
  Unless your doctor tells you that you need it (there are some cases that it makes sense, also this comment is not touching on trans issues), you shouldn't fuck with hormones.
  
  I've been calling people going on T "gender affirming care". Your body naturally slows down as it ages; going against nature is an affront to God and serves only to push the narrative that you aren't getting older, despite the inevitable still occurring. If you want to take hormones to change your body, you can go to a socialist country like France or Canada.
  The knots in the brain are visible from miles away, it's great.
- I don't want to feel 18 again
  Why the fuck would anyone want to feel 18 again
  
  I can't speak for you, but I would like to be able to bend down without worrying about standing back up again afterward.
  
  Psychologically? Not a chance. Physiologically, though... Eh, he might look a little better, but current me could def still kick that whiny sentient toothpick's ass.
- Because to the people who say that, "emotional" only refers to being sad
- E definitely leads to crying more ime and in the experience of a lot of transfem people. Some of that might just being a result of it helping with things like depression and dissociation though.
  But yeah, T is it's own experience too, probably moreso if you aren't aroace and have to deal with the horny actually being directed at people.
  
  As an aroace dude who is now a few decades older. That level of hormones going still makes dumb ideas look good.

Kayne is actually severely mentally ill, though. Musk is just evil.
- Musk is almost certainly also mentally ill.
  
  Not to the same level. Yes, while being a sociopath and a narcissist are mental illness, it's not the same thing as bipolar or other conditions requiring antipsychotics where your perception of reality is fucked.
  That's why there's different groups of mental illnesses. You can't say that someone with schizophrenia and someone with depression are the same because they both have a mental illness.
- A lot of mentally ill people (I would say the vast majority) don't embrace fascist ideals though.
  
  And many do. Dude needs to be hospitalized.
- Musk is just evil.
  I feel like I can safely say this unbiasedly at this point since there is just an absolutely insane amount of evidence at this point... He's also a complete dumbass.
  
  Yup, he blew way past his own level of incompetence.

I feel like these guys have enough money to figure their shit out. Just pay for a therapist and maybe a sex worker if you really need it.

This is what happened with my ex-husband, and he started out kinda left wing and anarchist. I broke him, people. Without me he's barely a human being :/
- 😯
- Sounds like you were the only thing keeping him intact for so long!

More and more Elon Musk reminds me of Peacemaker's shitty father. For more than one reason.

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Stereotypes are a generality. Not a hard rule. But yeah, I don't think men are less emotional anyway, if anything our emotions go through way higher peaks and troughs, or we're just the same. I think the main thing is men more often recognize a rational thought process and differentiate it from an emotional thought process. In broad generality. There are always going to be a spectrum of people that are more emotional vs more rational. And excessive rationality can be grating and detrimental in it's own way.
- I think the main thing is men more often recognize a rational thought process and differentiate it from an emotional thought process.
  
  That line threw me as well. I was nodding along until that one.
- Stereotypes are a generality. Not a hard rule.
  TIL black people are generally stupid criminals that are great dancers.