And most of those episodic shows are just there for the humour. They don’t have an arc because they’re just there to make fun of something for 20 minutes and move on.

Oh for sure, there’s some really great ones that don’t fit my generalisation.

The problem is that too many do fit it. And all the biggest ones seem to.

Anyways, you’re right.

Yep, there are a ton of those too.

Because most of it uses overly simplistic characters. There’s no depth to them. They’re good because they’re good, they’re bad because they’re bad.

No nuance!

The stories are overly simplistic too.

Not all of them are like this, but enough of them are that I’m just tired of the genre.

Now do tucker

I’ve yet to see any decent ones

We are all too easy to manipulate.

The more data they have on us, the easier it is.

Damn, this needs to be at the top.

We need to free ourselves from the shackles of roles-past.

That’s what feminism did.

So what if I’m not the breadwinner?

So what if I cry at sappy moments in movies?

So what if I need validation for my feelings?

Society is still okay with pushing this onto men, and it needs a moment of unity to say “this does not define me as a man”

I agree with the effects you’re seeing but not the cause.

Women’s liberation changed how women are presented in society. It fundamentally changed what it means to be a woman.

Men never went through that. At the moment, we sorta can’t. If I were to create a “men’s liberation" group, it would quickly be taken over by Incels. Hard-core feminists would also stir up a fuss that this group was exclusionary to them. So we are kind of stuck.

Manhood needs to be redefined, because many of the classic male role definitions no longer apply. men can be sensitive where historically they’ve been expected to be stoic. Men can raise children when classically they have been breadwinners while the women raise children.

I think these are all great changes, but we haven’t been able to redefine manhood in the same way that the feminists were able to redefine womanhood.

I don’t have a good answer, we are somewhat handcuffed by the expectation to fulfil classic roles, along with new expectations to be more modern feminist-aware, sensitive men. The two are not compatible enough to make for a nice midpoint.

Because it’s likely the first thing you notice and then you look for the harmful secondary traits.

Like a guy that has a really short fuse with himself. He might just have really high expectations for himself…… buuuuut once you notice that first trait, you keep your eyes out for the secondary ones, where he has a shorter fuse with others.

Jesus Christ, that’s brutal.

Like you’re stabbing a corpse at this point good sir.

This took me a minute to figure out 😝

Also entirely valid.

Sooooo, I have a ton of info here, but I’ll keep my point short and sweet.

Depending on the age, we HAVE to.

Because rejecting a parent is death. You’ll find that 7 year olds will make excuses for and defend abusive parents, because rejecting a parent is rejecting safety, housing, food etc….

And while that may be less true when you’re 18, some of that programming never leaves you, even if it should.

… so it just becomes a personal tragedy.

It was AMAZING.

as good as the first.

There were a few small moments that were kinda stupid, but their representation of anxiety was spot on.

There was a moment where the girls were taking off their skates while on concrete and the hockey player in me just cringed at the idea of it….

But it was fantastic

Not really, no.

But this thing could be beat with a raspberry pi.

You open the front of your gas boiler?

Exchanging air with the environment?

Where do you think the oven vents its exhaust gases to? The outside? So you have an exhaust vent directly attached to the oven? Which model of stove does this? Most of them vent into the range hood like the stovetop, or just into the room.

Let’s give a better example…. A well vented stovetop…… and you burn something on it really badly….

Does the vent catch ALL the burning smell? Or does the kitchen still smell of burnt food?

Yeah, that smell is the gases and particles that the venting didn’t catch…… there’s still a fair bit, isn’t there…… can you smell the burning?

The amount of gas that’s healthy for you to consume is basically zero, so even if the range hood catches 90% (I think it’s closer to 60, but I don’t have a source on that), there’s still a lot in the air.

K, so put the condescension away when you can do these experiments at home with the help of a responsible adult.

While they are less of a problem when they’re better vented, they’re still a really big problem. You can’t possibly vent them well enough.