The manliest thing you can do are things only "men" can do. "Women" can't cross-dress in women's clothing. Only men can do that. So be a man and wear a dress. And maybe some lipstick and some eyelashes go a long way as well.
LaughingLion
joined 5 years ago
Sorry if my mild criticism of the liberal New Yorker writer struck a deep nerve with you. I did not criticize the victim and no amount of rhetorical manipulation by you will alter that. She wrote over 11,250 words for this article. Short stories that are published average around 3k-7k words. You think I'd be upset over 5 words? My comment was not being hyperbolic. This is an absurd amount of writing for an article that is first and foremost trying to tell us information about a phenomenon in our corrupt incarceration system. You average reader could not finish this article in FORTY-FIVE minutes without break. It is that long. The critical information is spread out all over the article. It's awful. At the time of this comment there are 7 upvotes on your comment. I guarantee you 7 people did not bother to read about this woman's life. 7 people did not spend a minimum of 45 minutes reading this. I did what the average, normal person did and read a few paragraphs and though, "this is awful what happened to this woman," then scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and then scrolled some more and said, "fuck that." Honestly, I doubt you read it yourself. I seriously do.
Some things I've learned about recommending media is mostly learning to find the connection. Two of your recommendations here are anime, for instance. In my experience, people are either into it or they are not (I'm not). So you can recommend anime to me for days and I'm going to politely put it off. I'm sure it's good but it is just not for me.
Another one is that books are very personal and the taste for fiction especially is something that is hard get people to get into. I can recommend good books for days but what do I know about your preferences for certain tropes or archetypes, pacing, style of story-telling, and so on. I tend to avoid recommending books without knowing deeply what the other person is into and then I try to keep my recommendation somewhat safe; nothing too long. So if you recommended me that Azazeel book I'd like that it is short but the subject matter? Yeah I could not me any less interested in it whatsoever. I'm sure the book is good for people who like that sort of thing but based on it's description I'm not going to dedicate hours of reading to it.
As for movies I don't really watch them so I can't help there all I can say is I tell people regularly I don't watch many movies and I haven't seen hardly any of the Marvel movies (zero Avengers stuff) and yet they insist that I should and recommend me their favorite Marvel movie. Look, I'm not unaware of their existence, I'm just not interested. So I nod and say, "maybe I'll check it out if I find the time" knowing full well I have no intention to. You know what I like to watch? Historical Chinese dramas with my wife. You know what most people are uninterested in? That. So I don't recommend anything unless they ask because insisting someone watch an 80 episode series that takes place in the restrictive Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty in a language that will require subtitles the entire time is a big ask.
turns out dolphins mostly just talk about fish and all the sa they have done, are doing, and plan to do
I can't stand articles like this. Not the facts it shows but the novel it tries to write. JFC, just write a fucking book already. I'm trying to read an article about the issue of starvation in the American penal system and I'm being taken down memory lane of this woman's divorce, her interest in scrap-booking and basket weaving, wtf? I feel absolutely awful for her but I truly do not care. Does this journalist get paid by the fucking word or something? Get to the point, holy shit.
The Americans will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
remember kids, defrauding the government is only based if you get away with it
the second you get busted it is not longer based and you suck for not being clever enough to get away with it
okay i get the exhaust is probably better in paris but what about the pervasive smell of piss?
our chickens are about to cause the birdemic thats why they dont want em
core seal technology
two weeks ago i forgot to tell my wife i was going to chill at some friends house for the day and she slept in and woke up without me there and panicked and called me very angry because she was worried and i was missing
i felt bad even though it was no big deal :(
I find it funny that you thought that because I didn't enjoy the long-winded ramblings of some insufferable cosmopolitan liberal that I might be interested more of the same. The New Yorker sucks as a magazine. It's writers suck. It's readers suck which by the good graces of our collective ADHD none of us here are. Like I said, nobody here read the actual article and I don't think you read these two articles, either.