I didn’t claim misogyny didn’t exist, I explicitly confirmed it does. I didn’t say misandry was worse than misogyny, I said it wasn’t a competition between the two. Just because YOU don’t recognize it doesn’t mean that OTHER people don’t feel it’s effects. For you to come in and claim to tell other people that their experiences are invalid because you personally don’t believe in them is the height of narcissism

I know I’d rather wait a month than spend $40+ extra for the privilege of being an unpaid beta tester

When new games are approaching $100 and you know you can wait a month or two for it to drop $40 it’s an easy decision

Misandry exists and it’s a valid concern for a lot of men. To write it off and pretend it doesn’t is to feed more people into Peterson’s cult. That’s not to say that misogyny doesn’t exist either, not that it’s not as much of a problem. It’s not a competition on how much life sucks for a particular group of people. We’re all just trying to get through life however we can and everyone needs their own space. And so far 99% of men’s spaces are this sexist alpha male pigheaded bullshit. And everyone is so afraid of making another type because they’ll be labeled as more of the same. This is for just normal ass people who just need someone to talk to who understands what they’re going through. None of the Peterson bullshit. None of the misogyny. Just guys helping guys. And it’s telling that my first post saying “Peterson sucks” is very upvoted but my post saying “Peterson sucks, here’s an alternative for men that’s not sucky” is not

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Man born with golden lips attached to his ass attempts to judge others on excessiveness

/c/reprieve@lemmy.zip is here for male-identifying persons to get away from this kind of hate and find a better place to connect with their fellows where just regular normal people can talk about shit without judgement and without the specter of dumbass made up sexist shit like Peterson spouts hanging over them.

Disappointed but not surprised to see the downvotes, apparently there are Peterson fans here.

Dude is corrupting impressionable young men the world over and there should be some charge for flooding these poor people with hate. Should not be able to just do this and be fine and dandy in his secure house where he wouldn’t come within spitting distance of any of his cult.

/c/reprieve@lemmy.zip exists for people who would like an alternative to Peterson’s sexist bullshit.

This is the absolute worst time to be vindicated in your “radical end of the world” predictions. I hope everyone who said people were “just overreacting” are welcoming the leopards into their homes with smiling faces.

I’ve already posted a bigger post about some of my past, but heyo, nice to meet everyone, y’all can call me whatever you like, I’m the creator of this space. I want everyone to feel like they can come to me with whatever they need, sorta open door policy I suppose. I want this to be more of a community project and less of a ‘my’ project kind of thing so any suggestions or the like are very welcome. This is OUR space.

I’ve been a guitarist for a long time, decades, until my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome started hitting me really hard. Especially in my fingers. It got really hard to play anything I used to be able to play, and then it got hard to even play basic chords; things I could play within my first 6 months of picking up a guitar become impossible. I haven’t been able to play in years and it’s hit me pretty hard. Alcohol has been a good friend, arguably TOO good of a friend, but it kills the pain like nothing else does. Mostly physical but mentally too. I’m in a good head space now but the depression never entirely leaves you and I’ve found I’ve been leaning more and more heavily on alcohol as a crutch. It’s a thing I am aware of at the least, I know it’s not healthy for me but shrug it’s better than the alternative I feel. At the moment.

The MAGA half of America is very much pro-genocide. It’s terrifying

That…makes a lot of sense lol. That’s exactly how it plays out, yeah. I think it’s a wonderful addition to Trekkie-type show catalogues, personally.

It started out being a Seth McFarlane show but quickly became a pretty legit sci Fi show. McFarlane has always been a Trekkie, he was even in Enterprise, so he actually tries to do right by it once he gets most of the Family Guy type humour out of his system

I’m glad you were strong enough to do that, I know that can be hard :) Hopefully she’ll get some help and y’all can be friends again, but don’t get roped back into it until she stops treating like you an accesory and starts treating you like a friend.

Thank you so much, I can pop over to the website for stuff like that. Hoping they update with more mod tools though because this is my main Lemmy interface

GTA. It just seems really boring to me, I dunno. A lot of shoot em up and not so much substance. To be honest I feel like that for a lot of open world games. It may be wide as an ocean but it’s deep as a puddle. That’s not ALWAYS bad but I generally would prefer a more linearly running game that’s a lot deeper.

My only moderator options appear to be ban user and report. Not sure where else I’d look for it

Shameless plug for /c/reprieve@lemmy.zip for male identifying people to talk about these and all other issues with other men without any judgement or dumbass alpha male bullshit. It is meant to be literally this - a reprieve from the outside world. All of the people posting here hopeless and alone is why this place exists now.

You just said she calls you abusive for not feeding into her ego. That IS insulting you. And if she’s doing this to others too, I would get far away and not look back

I would’ve said try and ignore it at first, but now that you’ve said she’s straight up insulting you for not playing into her delusions, yes, it would probably be good for you to cut her off, for your own sake. How she deals with that is her problem, you’re not obligated to cut your nose off to make someone else look better.