masculinity is in fact fragile and women can easily trash it by merely defecting rather than cooperating in its maintenance, and after decades of casual encouragement to do this at the drop of a hat as if there were no costs involved, only benefits, there isn't much of it left
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Replying to @chaosprime
Fragility of masculinity heavily depends on the prevalence of its component known as giving zero fucks. Also, betas are fragile, alphas aren't and that's part of what makes them alphas
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Replying to @lumiferrous @chaosprime
Galaxy brain: everyone's fragile, we're all playing different games so everyone's fragility is expressed differently. Sometimes "fragile" behavior means getting a job in fintech instead of being an inner-city basketball coach, because one has $$ and the other doesn't.
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Replying to @Robot_Bastard @chaosprime
Fragility is not being forced to make choices you don't like. Fragility is breaking under stress.
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Replying to @lumiferrous @Robot_Bastard
breaking under stress is usually a choice (you don’t like) to break instead of breaking something or someone else
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Replying to @chaosprime @Robot_Bastard
Don't think so, you don't break by choice, you just break (and, among consequences, start making suboptimal choices because you're broken) Breaking is different from throwing a tantrum
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I've broken under stress instead of harming others. It can be a choice. I've done it the other way and it felt just as shitty.
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good to know tbh
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