[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Your brain is constantly processing the inputs from all of your senses and pretty much ignoring them if they fit with what it is already expecting.

Your brain is lazy. If everything seems to fit with what your brain expects then you believe that what you are seing is reality and you generally ignore it.

Generally the mind only focuses on what it believes is salient/interesting/unexpected.

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[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

How does that freedom taste?

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Can't we just take all of the sociopaths from the banking industry and stick them on the front line?

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Why can't it be both?

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago

Gentoo. No. Compiling all of the things was not for me.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

I will kill myself if life ends up this bad.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Think of the structural issues which have caused this to be the case. Blaming men for not achieving an externally defined target isn't going to help anyone.

Hate the game, not the player.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

I like the suggestion that we concern ourselvrs more with the quality of men's internal lives, but I do worry we're still objectifying men as 'the problem'.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[-] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, that would be nice in an ideal world there would be no issues which affected one sex more than another, but we are not in a perfect world.

I'm afraid this doesn't really help me understand the view that men's problems aren't as worthy as women's issues.

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A UK Member of Parliament recently suggested that there should be a Government minister for men which would presumably do similar things to the existsing minister for Women.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/reactions-pour-in-as-mp-renews-calls-for-official-minister-for-men-356501/

This has thrown up a series of heated discussions on social media about whether this is part of the 'backlash' against feminsm, or whether there is a legitimate need for wider support of men's issues.

As a man who believes that there are legitimate issues disproportionately affecting men which should be addressed, what I really want help in understanding is the opinion that men don't need any targetted support.

I don't want to start a big argument, but I do want to understand this perspective, because I have struggled to understand it before and I don't like feeling like I'm missing something.

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